一个不那么令人惊讶的消息是，在特朗普总统签署一项行政命令后，the.si域名迎来了前所未有的需求，要求所有政府机构将“人工智能”和“人工智能”称为“SI”和“超级智能”。这与人工智能热潮开始时发生的事情相呼应，当时人们对.ai域名（与安圭拉相关）的兴趣激增，为该岛带来了数百万美元的收入。
In not-so-surprising news, the.si domain name is seeing unprecedented demand after President Trump signed an executive order mandating all government agencies to refer to “AI” and “artificial intelligence” as “SI” and “super intelligence.”It echoes what happened at the start of the AI boom, when interest in the .ai domain name—associated with the country Anguilla—spiked and brought in millionsfor the island territory.
现在轮到.si成为众人瞩目的焦点了。该域名通常与斯洛文尼亚联系在一起，讽刺的是，第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普来自斯洛文尼亚。管理斯洛文尼亚域名的官方组织Registry SI发言人克拉拉·赫尔曼（Klara Herman）本周早些时候告诉BBC，9月份.si域名购买量增加了2，199%。然而，她对仅将提振与特朗普总统联系起来持谨慎态度。
Now it’s .si’s turn in the spotlight. The domain name was commonly associated with Slovenia, where,ironically, First Lady Melania Trump is from. Klara Herman, a spokesperson at Registry SI, the official organization that manages Slovenia’s domains,told the BBC earlier this weekthat there was a 2,199% increase in .si domain name purchases in September. However, she was cautious about linking the boost only to President Trump.
尽管如此，注册处指出，9月30日（特朗普总统签署行政命令的第二天）记录了11，000个新地址，过去24小时内新增了近13，000个新的.si域名。
Still, the Registry noted 11,000 new addresses recorded on September 30th, the day after President Trump signed the executive order, and almost 13,000 new .si domain names wereed in the past 24 hours.
我们联系了其他几个网络托管网站，看看他们是否也看到了类似的趋势。GoDaddy表示，他们尚未托管.si域名，截至发稿时Squarspacace尚未做出回应。有趣的是，Wix表示，他们没有看到任何“有意义的上涨”，而且自9月29日以来，该网站上的上涨幅度一直很小。Wix发言人表示：“现在还为时过早，因此情况可能会改变。”
We reached out to a few other web hosting sites to see if they had seen similar trends. GoDaddy said they don’t yet host the .si domain, and Squarespace hadn’t yet responded as of the time of publication. Wix, interestingly enough, said that they weren’t seeing any “meaningful uptick” on their end, and that it’s been minimal on the site since September 29th. “It’s still early so that could change,” a Wix spokesperson said.
但网络托管平台Hostinger告诉我，.si现在是其第二受欢迎的域名扩展，仅次于. com。它发现，在其客户中，9月30日有近4，300名ed.si，10月1日有约5，400名;自9月23日以来，超过四分之三的.si域名是在过去两天来的。调查发现，超过一半的买家来自美国和印度。
But web hosting platform Hostinger told me that .si is now its second most popular domain extension, right after .com. It found that among its customers, almost 4,300ed .si on September 30th and about 5,400 on October 1st; more than three-quarters of all .si domainsed since September 23 came in the last two days. It found that more than half the buyers were coming from the U.S. and India.
有趣的是，据称在Hostinger平台上，仅有约3%的.si域名明确与人工智能相关。绝大多数域名则被标记为“未分类”——即其名称无法归入任何特定类别。报告指出，使用.si域名的大多数为个人及企业，不过也存在投机行为：有些人购买这些域名或许是为了日后转售获利。
Curiously enough, on Hostinger, only around 3% of the .si domains are explicitly related to AI, it said. Most are “unclassified,” — meaning their names don’t match any specific category. It said that most of thoseing the .si domain name seem to be people and businesses, though there is a speculative element, in that people could be buying the domains to resell them later.
听到这个消息后，我的第一个想法回到了本周早些时候一位创始人给我的消息，指出.si域名的转售价格超过100万美元。专门与人工智能和加密货币创始人合作的Genius PR首席执行官Kim Than告诉我，他已经购买了公司名称的.si版本，“以保护品牌，以防它像. ai一样流行”。这样做是因为它很便宜，所以他认为他还不如“现在就获得它，而不是以后可能支付更多的费用”。
Upon hearing this, my first thought went back to what a founder messaged me earlier this week, noting that .si domains were reselling for over a million dollars. Kim Than, CEO of Genius PR, who specializes in working with AI and crypto founders, told me that he already bought the .si version of his company name “to protect the brand in case this takes off like .ai.”And did so because it was cheap, so he figured he might as well “secure it now than potentially pay a lot more later.”
Than将域名视为数字收藏品，并希望在价格还不错的情况下再购买一些，稍后他可能会转售它们;他说，人们还可以将域名标记化，并在区块链上交易它们，尽管他不确定是否支持.si。“一些创始人朋友也在购买，因为我们认为这是新的人工智能热潮，”他继续说道。“谁知道会走多远，但我很乐意打赌。”
Than sees domain names as digital collectibles and wants to pick up a few more while the price is still good, and he might resell them later; one can also tokenize domains, he said, and trade them on the blockchain, though he’s not sure if .si is supported just yet. “A few founder friends are buying too cause we think it’s the new AI boom,” he continued. “Who knows how far it goes, but I’m happy to take a bet.”
si有可能变得非常受欢迎。特朗普总统的行政命令称，“当今前沿系统的能力不仅仅是模仿或自动化人类智能的离散方面”，而且它们“越来越多地不仅代表人工智能，而且代表一种新的超级智能”。
There is a chance that .si could become pretty popular. President Trump’s executive order said that“the capabilities of today’s frontier systems do much more than imitate or automate discrete aspects of human intelligence,” and that they “increasingly represent not merely artificial intelligence but a new super intelligence.”
Hostinger的域名主管Klaudijus Januitis告诉我，他预计.si的需求将继续增长，尽管他认为该域名不会很快取代.ai。相反，正如这位创始人和他的朋友们所指出的那样，Januitis说.si现在是一个更容易获得和“更实惠的第二选择”。
Klaudijus Januitis, head of domains at Hostinger, told me that he expects the demand for .si to keep growing, though he doesn’t see that domain as replacing .ai anytime soon. Instead, as noted by that founder and his friends, Januitis said .si is right now a more available and a “more affordable second option.”
他说：“斯洛文尼亚不会看到安圭拉看到的情况。”他指出，安圭拉对使用.si收取“溢价”，这笔钱直接交给政府，而.si只是成本的一小部分，交给注册处，而不是财政部。例如，在Hostinger上，.si每年的费用约为12美元，而.ai则为90美元，需要两年的承诺。“对安圭拉来说，.ai已经成为第二经济体。对于斯洛文尼亚来说，.si是一个不错的奖励。
“Slovenia will not see what Anguilla saw,” he said, noting that, for one, Anguilla charges a “premium” to use .si and that money goes straight to the government, while .si is a fraction of the cost and goes to the registry rather than the treasury. For example, on Hostinger, .si costs around $12 dollars a year while .ai goes for $90 and requires a two-year commitment. “For Anguilla, .ai became a second economy. For Slovenia, .si is a nice bonus.”