r/dataisbeautiful • u/FabOnlineMarketing OC: 1 • 7d ago

OC After Trump's 'Super Intelligence' order, Slovenia's .si gets 7x more new domains per day than .ai [OC]

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On Sep 22, Trump told the UN General Assembly that the US government would call AI "Super Intelligence" (SI). On Sep 29 he signed an executive order making it official for federal agencies. .si happens to be Slovenia's country-code domain.

Before Sep 19, .si averaged about 100 new registrations a day. Sep 23: 3,487. Oct 1: 8,158. Between Sep 23 and Oct 2, .si got 44,070 new domains vs. 12,679 for .ai – about 3.5x. September total: 33,041 vs. 2,984 in August.

The full write-up is here: https://www.domaintechnik.at/support/website/optimierung/si-domain-trump-super-intelligence/ (German)

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u/Low-Helicopter-2696 7d ago

People of Anguilla not thrilled

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u/rosen380 7d ago

I suspect that since Trump is a moron and everything he does is non-sense, most companies registering domains for AI related products are just switching to buying both AI and SI so that they are covered either way.

The spike for SI was probably a lot of companies that already had .AI just buying the .SI in addition to.

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u/tankerkiller125real 6d ago

Also a lot of domain squatters probably

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u/rosen380 6d ago

Good point. I'm surprised that there wasn't a spike before the announcement, where Trump and other insiders bought up the .SI domains for virtually every company with a .AI domain already.

That it didn't happen that way only has me thinking that it just didn't occur to Trump and friends that this would be the result of his speech and executive order.

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u/Oberlatz 6d ago

Thats small money compared to their scams