The White House Moves AI.gov to si.gov: What .si Domain Buyers Should Know

What happened: AI.gov is now si.gov

On Tuesday the Trump administration rolled out si.gov. It's a new address for the government's AI policy site, which was first launched during the Biden administration, Business Insider reported via Yahoo. The site describes President Trump's artificial intelligence policies. Much of its text had already been changed before the new URL went live.

Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, marked the switch on X: "The Super Intelligence era is here. 🇺🇸"

This is the clearest sign yet that the September 29 executive order isn't just about the wording in memos. The government has now put SI into its own web address. If you've been asking whether the rename would stick inside Washington, that's a real answer. It still says nothing about what the rest of the world will call the technology.

The First Lady's SI Challenge points to si.gov too

On the same day, the White House announced that First Lady Melania Trump had launched the 2027 Presidential Super Intelligence (SI) Challenge for K-12 students, educators and schools. The announcement says the first Challenge, held earlier this year, engaged more than 20,000 students from all 50 states and U.S. schools around the world.

New this year is the First Lady Seal of SI Readiness. Schools can earn it by submitting evidence that they've completed a set of milestones focused on SI readiness. "America's next groundbreaking idea is already sitting in a classroom," Mrs. Trump said. Sign-ups go through SI.Gov.

So the new address isn't a quiet redirect. It's already the front door for a national schools programme.

si.gov isn't a .si domain, and that matters

I want buyers to be clear on this point. si.gov is a .gov address. The "si" is the name part, and .gov is the extension, which belongs to the US government. Nobody can buy it, and it has nothing to do with the .si extension.

The .si extension is Slovenia's country-code domain, managed by the Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES), as a Lead Stories fact check republished on note explains. A government site at si.gov doesn't send traffic to any .si name, and it doesn't change the rules or prices for .si registrations.

What it does do is make the letters SI more familiar, especially to students, teachers and parents who'll see SI.Gov on the challenge materials. That's a small benefit for anyone holding a .si name made of plain words. I wouldn't count it as anything more.

RAEK shows how a real company is using .si

This week's other useful news came from a company, not the government. RAEK, based in Phoenix, announced that it had registered 26 .si domains to support its long-term vision for SI. The announcement was a press release carried by The Globe and Mail via ACCESS Newswire. The names include privatecompute.si, firstpartydata.si, agentcontrol.si, sovereigncompute.si and solarcompute.si, along with memorylayer.si, modelmemory.si and contextlayer.si.

Three details stand out for buyers:

• They're generic words. Every name on the list is a plain phrase about data, compute, memory or energy. None of them copies somebody else's brand.
• They're for content, not the main site. RAEK says it plans to turn selected domains into educational resources, focused campaigns and digital destinations. Its own release still sends readers to raek.ai.
• They're honest about what .si is. The release says RAEK uses SI to mean Super Intelligence "as a forward-looking branding interpretation" and that "The .si extension remains Slovenia's country-code domain."

That's a sensible model to copy. A .si name works best as an extra address for a clear, generic topic. It shouldn't replace a company's main domain.

What the registry numbers say this week

Register.si, the official .si registry run by ARNES, reported on October 11 that 393,793 .si domains were registered. That included 46,066 new registrations in the last month and 7,270 in the last 24 hours, across 98 registrars. Its spokesperson, Klara Herman, said that more than 160,000 .si names had already been registered before September.

She also said each .si domain is registered individually, and that details such as the registration date and the owner can be checked through the public WHOIS service. Register.si doesn't allow anonymous registration. If you're buying from a reseller, me included, check WHOIS before you pay.

Those numbers cut both ways. Demand is real, but with tens of thousands of new names a month, supply is growing fast too. Most .si names are speculation, and the aftermarket for them is small.

Should you buy a .si name because of this?

Not because of si.gov alone. A government web address makes more people aware of the letters SI, but it doesn't create buyers for your name. If the .com of your words is available at a fair price, buy the .com first.

A .si only makes sense when it passes three questions:

1. Are the .com and .ai taken or expensive? If either one is cheap, that's usually the better buy.
2. Is it a generic name and not a brand? Stick to plain words like RAEK's picks, and never copy a company's name.
3. Do people search for it? Real search volume means there's an audience beyond the SI headlines.

With this week's schools news in mind, here's how a few names in my inventory hold up against that test:

• enrollments.si ($2,500): 246,000 searches a month, and the .com is listed at $29,999. The .ai is listed at $6,800, only a few thousand dollars more, so if you want the better-known extension, the .ai may suit you better.
• greatmind.si ($2,000): 33,100 searches. The .com is listed at $500,000 and the .ai is for sale, price on request. It's a plain phrase for a tutor or mentor product.
• aiprompts.si ($5,500): 201,000 searches. The .ai is listed at $44,500 and the .com has been held since 2018.
• brainbank.si ($1,500): 1,600 searches, so demand is modest. The .ai is listed at $399,999 and the .com has been held since 1995.
• futurehuman.si ($1,500): 5,400 searches. The .ai is listed at $290,000 and the .com has been held since 1999.

If a name on aidomains.si doesn't pass all three questions for your plans, don't buy it. I'd rather you didn't.

Names from this store that pass the test

Questions

Sources

1. Yahoo (Business Insider), 2026-10-13
2. The White House, 2026-10-13
3. note (Lead Stories fact check), 2026-10-12
4. The Globe and Mail (ACCESS Newswire), 2026-10-12

This post was researched and drafted with AI help from the sources above, then checked by me before publishing. Facts are as reported on the dates shown.