Over half of all .si domains are new since “Super Intelligence”. Nine in ten of the new ones sit unused.
Slovenia’s .si took 34 years to reach 186,159 domains. In the six weeks after Trump started calling AI “super intelligence”, buyers registered more than that again. Of the new ones we checked, 34% are already listed for sale and 58% still show the registrar’s placeholder page.
A snapshot of 7 November 2026. .si domains month by month →
The .si rush started at the UN, a week before the executive order
On 22 September Trump told the UN General Assembly that US government documents would stop saying “artificial intelligence” and say “super intelligence”. SI is also the country code of Slovenia, Melania Trump’s home country. New .si domains went from 143 a day to 2,139 that day and doubled the next.
| Day | New .si domains |
|---|---|
| 19 Sep (before) | 143 |
| 22 Sep (Trump at the UN) | 2,139 |
| 23 Sep | 4,478 |
| 30 Sep (the day after the order) | 11,331 |
| 5 Oct (the record) | 21,756 |
| 7 Nov (last 24 hours) | 1,687 |
The executive order followed on 29 September, telling federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” (White House fact sheet). The record so far, 21,756 in one day, came on 5 October. The pace has since fallen to 1,687 a day.
Slovenia’s web, outnumbered in six weeks
The registry counted 3,515 new .si domains in August, 46,066 in September and 236,699 in October. On 7 November 2026 .si stood at 483,603. At least 254,647 of them, over half, were registered after the UN speech.
Superintelligence domains bought to sell: 49,017 already listed
- listed for sale
- the registrar’s placeholder page
- a host or site builder the owner chose
Of the older .si domains we checked, up to 81% pointed at a host or site builder their owner picked: .si as a working Slovenian address. Of the 146,290 registered since the order, 49,017 (34%) went up for sale within weeks and 84,663 still show the registrar’s placeholder page. At most 12,610 (9%) could be someone building a site.
The domains bought in September before the order look the same: 38% for sale. Few say AI outright. Hostinger, which told TechCrunch that .si had become its best seller after .com, put the share of its new .si domains with an explicit AI theme at about 3% (TechCrunch).
Where the new .si domains are for sale: Atom, Afternic, Sedo
- listed on the marketplace
- on the registrar’s placeholder page
Atom lists 24,786 of the new .si domains and Afternic 11,920. One seller has at least 384 under a single marketplace account. The 84,663 on a placeholder sit mostly at Spaceship, Dynadot and Hostinger.
.si vs .ai: what a .si domain costs, and what it is worth
Registering a .si domain costs about $12 a year at Hostinger; a .ai costs about $90 a year with a two-year minimum, TechCrunch reported. A reseller’s .si asking price is a different number. The first renewals fall due from late September 2027, when owners who paid for one year decide whether an unsold .si is worth another.
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Track .si yourself
Every .si figure since 2011, month by month, is on the .si statistics page and in the free stats API. Free to reuse with credit.
Sources: Register.si (totals and monthly counts; daily counts via 24ur.com); ARNES (June 2026 total); TechCrunch, 2 October 2026; the White House, 29 September 2026; Namedesk research, where .si domains pointed on 6 November 2026.