Online commenters allege a .si domain grift behind the rebrand
3 Oct 8 4:25 PM · 5d ago · 3 articles · 4 posts · 11 comments · 5 sources · development 3 of 5
Reddit and Hacker News commenters speculated that insiders bought up .si domain names before the rebrand announcement to profit from the name change, calling it a possible "money laundering op."
“just non stop grift with this regime. possibly even money laundering op.”
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Donald Trump U.S. President
White House Executive branch issuing the orderNaomi Susan Baron Linguist, authorEmily Bender Computational linguistics professor, AI ethics voice
Jake Tapper CNN anchor
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Politico, 5d ago · also Yahoo, Independent UK
1 more headline
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first by HuffPost, 5d ago
What people said 12 voices · verbatim
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for those that don't want to click: .ai domain names are taken over by a bunch of squatters looking to make money off selling them. .si domains on the other hand were barely taken - until a bunch of them got snagged up before trump announced it, and now whoever bought the .si domains are making lots of money selling them. just non stop grift with…
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Well, this North Korea stuff is at least somewhat entertaining. Which will be the first tech company to fully rebrand?
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Super-dementia https://www. axios.com/2026/10/08/trump-ai- super-intelligence-white-house
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As an aside i realise i know absolutely nothing about Slovenia, had to look it up on a map and have probably often confused it with Slovakia. I should also clarify i am not American but in fact European.
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The enemy of the people claims that not using his preferred naming for things makes you the enemy.
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I think he wants to prove to himself that he can change the way humans talk even in his old age. And of course take credit for coining the term like so many other replies have said.
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He'll go down as the crazy man in history who duped a bunch of spineless [bleeps] to follow his orders and kiss his ass.
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If this is the quality of rebuttal you can provide while faced with overwhelming information to the contrary, I’m sorry
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Elon does it with X. he wanted X this X that. It's to feed their egos...to make them feel like they have power.
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The article says “The president’s outburst-cum-veiled threat landed…” Never heard that term in my life
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Si stands "sexually impotent" right. Trump has a lot of experience with this so it makes sense.
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I've just been referring to it as the department of dipshits but yours goes way harder.
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