Slovenia's national domain registry recorded 44,000 new .si web addresses in September, compared with fewer than 2,000 in August, the BBC reported. Register.si described the late-September activity as exceptional, including 11,000 registrations on September 30 alone.
The increase coincided with US President Donald Trump's campaign to use the phrase super intelligence, abbreviated to SI, instead of artificial intelligence. The initials also match Slovenia's internet country-code domain. Trump later signed an order directing US government agencies to use the new terminology in official material.
Register.si spokeswoman Klara Herman cautioned that the full jump could not be attributed to Trump's comments alone. Some buyers register domain names speculatively, hoping to sell them later, but the registry did not identify the motives behind individual registrations.
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