2026-10-09
On September 29, 2026, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to rename "Artificial Intelligence" to "Super Intelligence" — SI. The White House published a fact sheet on September 30.
And .si is Slovenia's country-code top-level domain, launched in 1992, with no connection to AI at all.
On October 8, 2026, we pulled the RDAP records for all 18,125 four-letter .si names (aaaa–zzzz). Every record carries a creation date, so you can see exactly which day the rush started — not guess from search trends.
| Period | Registrations | Days | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun–Aug | 376 | 92 | 4.1 |
| Sep 1–28 | 900 | 28 | 32.1 |
| Sep 29+ | 3240 | 10 | 324.0 |
Before the order (Sep 1–28) the rate was 32.1 per day; after it (Sep 29–Oct 8) 324.0 per day — 10.1x. Over the summer (Jun–Aug) it was just 4.1 per day.
① 43.0% were already taken. 7,790 of the 18,125 are registered; 4,550 of those predate the order — four-letter names are scarce on any TLD. The other 3,240 are this wave.
② Most of what's left is debris. Of the 10,335 names marked available, few read as anything — pube, jism, msmr, aaae. The generation rule only constrained "4 letters total", never meaning.
We ran the identical 18,125 names against .com (Verisign RDAP). Available: zero. 18,069 are confirmed registered and 56 lookups failed — not one was free. With 0 hits in 18,069 tries, the 95% upper bound on the true availability rate is just 0.017% (rule of three). The median registration year is 2000, and by 2005 93.2% were already taken — while the same names on .si have a median registration year of 2026, a 26-year gap. Of the 10,335 names still free on .si, none is free on .com.
· The sample is 18,125 four-letter names, not all of .si — the accurate claim is "four-letter .si registrations were up 10x", not ".si registrations were up 10x".
· Letters only — no digits or hyphens.
· Census taken 2026-10-08 01:17–09:56 (UTC+8); that day is incomplete.
· The jump and the executive order are correlated in time; this is not proof of causation, though it is the most plausible explanation.
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