Guys, I need your help.
A potential buyer started a discussion about the extension .si. You know these buyers with bargain offers: Either they suffer as poor students, or they want to pay less because the TLD is so incredibly bad.
On the other hand, this buyer seems to be serious and is probably active in the public field of Research/Science. I thought to write a longer answer here which could help us as a sample text for future inquiries. Well, I translated my German draft with Google Translate. Could you please suggest improvements of language and content?
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Thank you for your interest. I only partially share your assessment of the .si ccTLD. You have to look at where the country comes from. During the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, Slovenia was a small, neglected region within. After World War II, it became part of the communist Tito regime in Yugoslavia. In 1991, Slovenia quickly and skillfully fought for independence during the Yugoslavia Civil War. In 2004, Slovenia joined the European Union.
When the internet began its triumphant advance, Slovenia's infrastructure, economic power, and prosperity were weak. Adoption of the ccTLD was correspondingly slow. Domain registration was initially only available to Slovenian legal entities and international trademark owners. It wasn't until 2008 that it was opened to foreign registrants without a trademark background.
More non-Slovenes have registered and developed domains than you'd imagine. You'll find Spanish and Italian sites (si!), English portals referring to the dozens of meanings of the abbreviation Si, and much more.
Artificial intelligence has only been playing a role at dot.si for about two years, when the general public became aware of the term "superintelligence" during the dispute between OpenAI and Sam Altman. A little over a year ago, the (non-disclosed) acquisition of the domain Copilot.si by Microsoft was discussed, and since then, the number of registrations of .si domains has increased and internationalized disproportionately. The official academic abbreviation for artificial superintelligence is ASI, so the connection to dot .si is obvious.
Since Meta and Mark Zuckerberg have led the talent war to the development of artificial superintelligence, there has been no longer any doubt about the validity of the technical term and the development goal of superintelligence. You're absolutely right: It's not as if all Big Tech and startups in the field of superintelligence switched to dot .si overnight. But that's not surprising. Rome wasn't built in a day.
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