The .si rush, in numbers.
Since September 2026, people read .si as super intelligence, and they have been registering it by the thousand a day. Hivex watches every free name in its index about once an hour, so it sees which ones go, and how fast.
- Claimed in a week
- 5,579
- Names Hivex had confirmed free, then saw registered, 1 to 7 October 2026.
- Half were gone in
- 42 h
- From Hivex confirming a name free to seeing it registered. A quarter went within 24 hours.
- Three or four letters
- 57%
- Short strings go mostly in bulk, and many are parked for resale.
- Pointed at Dynadot
- 40%
- The largest group by nameservers, most of them the registrar’s default parking.
Still free right now: 644,784 .si names in the Hivex index.Browse them
Day by day.
Names seen registered each day, live. The busiest day so far: 5 Oct, with 2,169. A day is when Hivex saw the name taken, not the minute it was registered, which nobody outside the registrar knows.
Download the daily data (CSV)| Day (UTC) | Names seen taken |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | 0 |
| 2026-09-25 | 0 |
| 2026-09-26 | 0 |
| 2026-09-27 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 0 |
| 2026-09-30 | 0 |
| 2026-10-01 | 5 |
| 2026-10-02 | 191 |
| 2026-10-03 | 538 |
| 2026-10-04 | 908 |
| 2026-10-05 | 2169 |
| 2026-10-06 | 1768 |
| 2026-10-07 | 137 |
Who is buying.
A new name points at nameservers, usually the registrar’s own until the owner sets up a site. By that measure most of the 5,579 names went to domain investors at a few registrars: 40% sit on Dynadot’s parking, and 239 are already parked for sale at Afternic or Sedo.
- Dynadot2,211 40%
- INWX749 13%
- Hostinger735 13%
- Spaceship595 11%
- Openprovider229 4%
- Atom217 4%
- Afternic (for sale)167 3%
- Sedo (for sale)72 1%
- Porkbun60 1%
- Cloudflare42 1%
- Name.com32 1%
- Other434 8%
What gets taken.
57% were three or four letters, bought in bulk. The rest were words and word pairs a product could use, such as finmind.si, paymind.si, trybot.si, usebot.si, finiq.si and payiq.si.
Find one that is still free- 3 letters1,275 23%
- 4 letters1,899 34%
- 5 to 6396 7%
- 7 or more2,009 36%
The whole registry.
- 22 Sep 2026A speech at the UN General Assembly proposes “super intelligence”, SI, as the new word for AI. More than 2,000 .si names are registered that day and more than 4,000 the next.[1]
- 29 Sep 2026About 219,800 .si names exist, past 200,000 for the first time.[1]
- 30 Sep 202611,000 new .si names in one day, the day after an executive order uses the term.[2]
- 2 Oct 2026Almost 13,000 more in 24 hours. The registry counts a 2,199% rise in September; more than half of the buyers are in the U.S. and India.[2]
How this was measured
Hivex lists a .si name only after the official .si records show that nobody holds it. It then checks every listed name about once an hour. A name counts as claimed when the .si zone starts pointing it at nameservers.
What it does not show
Only names Hivex had found free, not every .si registration. Times are when Hivex saw a name taken, so they can trail the registration by an hour or more. Nameservers show where a name points, not who owns it.
How to cite this
Hivex, “The .si rush in numbers”, 7 Oct 2026, https://hivex.si/signals/si-rush-2026
Charts and numbers are free to reuse with a link to this page. Questions or fresh numbers: support@hivex.si.
Share on XSources
- [1]Foreign Policy, Trump's 'Super Intelligence' Rebrand Boosts Slovenia's '.si' Web Domains, 28 Sep 2026
- [2]TechCrunch, Slovenia's .si domain sees a surge in registrations after Trump's 'super intelligence' order, 2 Oct 2026
Changes
7 October 2026: first version. The daily chart and the free-name count update live.
By Hivex. What .si is, and how to register one.