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Trump’s SI Rebrand Drives Interest in Slovenia’s .si Domains

Published 30 September 2026

Slovenian internet domain registrations rose after U.S. President Donald Trump promoted “super intelligence,” or SI, as a replacement term for artificial intelligence during his address to the United Nations General Assembly, drawing new interest in the country’s .si suffix. ARNES data cited in one report showed more than 2,000 .si registrations on the day of Trump’s speech and more than 4,000 the following day. September registrations exceeded 10,000, and the total number of .si domains passed 200,000, according to those figures. Separate reporting said the overall total had topped 220,000, but the accounts provide different measures and reporting periods, making the scale of the increase difficult to reconcile. Klara Herman, a spokeswoman for Register.si, which manages Slovenia’s domain registry, said requests had increased after Trump’s remarks. She reported an average of 3,700 new registrations per day since the speech, compared with about 3,500 during all of August. Those figures use a different baseline from the daily counts attributed to ARNES. Trump said artificial intelligence sounded “fake” and that the U.S. would use “super intelligence” in official documents. The .

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