Because of one Trump decision: the massive surge in internet domain purchases

The Trump administration's decision to change the term 'artificial intelligence' to 'super intelligence' (SI) has led to a global buying frenzy of domains with the Slovenian suffix .si, which matches the new acronym. Over 44,000 domains were registered in a month, a surge of 2,100%. Elon Musk announced a corresponding name change for SpaceX's AI division.

The Trump administration's decision to change the official term 'artificial intelligence' (AI) to 'super intelligence' (SI) has created an unusual economic side effect: a global buying frenzy of domains with Slovenia's national suffix (.si), which matches the new acronym. According to an official report by the Slovenian Internet Association (Register.si) published by the BBC, over 44,000 new domains were registered in the past month – a surge of over 2,100% compared to fewer than 2,000 in a regular month. On the day after the White House order was signed, 11,000 addresses were registered in 24 hours, and the following day a further record of 13,000. Association spokesperson Klara Herman confirmed this is an unprecedented volume. The main explanation is speculative trading: investors buy domains at a base price of a few shekels, hoping to sell them at huge profits to technology companies that will adopt the new branding. The tailwind intensified when SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on X over the weekend that he would rename the company's AI division from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, declaring 'there is no more AI, there is only SI'. The article notes the precedent of Anguilla, which doubled its budget thanks to the .ai suffix. The article does not quote skeptical figures or administration opponents by name, and presents the phenomenon mainly from an economic-commercial perspective.