Policy Consultant Alleges Super Intelligence EO Was 'Criminal Plot To Enrich the Trump Family'

Adam Cochran has alleged that people with advance knowledge of Donald Trump's decision to rebrand artificial intelligence as 'Super Intelligence' quietly bought up Slovenian .si domain names and then profited as demand surged, calling it 'ANOTHER criminal plot to enrich the Trump family'.

In a 15-part post on X on 30 September, Cochran argued that anyone tipped off about Trump's planned terminology could have purchased .si domains before the president publicly adopted 'Super Intelligence', then cashed in after interest spiked.

He pointed to Trump's 19 September Truth Social poll, his 22 September United Nations remarks and the subsequent jump in .si registrations and aftermarket listings.

Cochran also noted that Melania and Barron Trump have Slovenian citizenship and connected that family link to the domain activity. His opening post said: 'Insiders seem to have profited MILLIONS off of .si domain names before his Truth Social posts.'

In the final post of the thread, he said insiders had bought 'thousands' of .si domains over the previous 60 days and claimed they had 'profited hundreds of millions of dollars so far'. The registration surge is documented. The ownership claim is not.

Trump Ordered Federal Agencies To Use 'SI'

Trump signed the executive order on 29 September, directing executive departments and agencies, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to use 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' instead of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents and other non-statutory documents.

The order does not require private companies to change their branding. It also says previously issued regulations, Presidential actions, contracts, grants and other historical documents do not have to be altered.

For the purposes of the order, 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' are defined by the existing federal statutory definition of artificial intelligence under 15 USC § 9401(3).

The Assistant to the President for Science and Technology has 60 days to submit proposed legislative language and assess whether the existing statutory definition should be modified, expanded or superseded.

Trump had raised the terminology publicly before signing the order. On 19 September, he posted a Truth Social poll offering alternative names for artificial intelligence. Three days later, at the United Nations, he referred to AI as 'super intelligence' and used the abbreviation SI.

.si Registrations Jumped Around Trump's Posts

Netcraft said registrations of Slovenia's .si domains overtook .ai registrations during the 25 hours after Trump referred to 'super intelligence' at the United Nations on 22 September. The cybersecurity research firm also detected speculative .si purchasing following Trump's social media posts.

About 52% of the .si domains it detected as registered through Dynadot between the 19 September poll and Trump's UN remarks were subsequently listed on Dynadot's aftermarket.

Among the domains identified by Netcraft were donaldjtrump.si, superintell.si, boeing.si and unitedstate.si. Netcraft said the activity could reflect investors anticipating increased interest in .si, but said it could not determine whether registrants had advance knowledge of Trump's remarks or were responding to unrelated factors.

Domain Name Wire reported on 28 September that a 4 September archive of Register.si showed about 190,000 .si registrations and that the zone had expanded by more than 15% during September. It reported that the registry charges €10 wholesale per domain.

Investors Were Buying .si Before September

Domain Name Wire reported on 11 June 2026 that investors were already buying .si domains because the suffix could be used as shorthand for 'superintelligence'. Its review of 35 public .si sales recorded by NameBio from January through 9 June found that most appeared to involve domain investors.

One investor in China accounted for 43% of the public sales examined, according to the report. Two transactions stood out as end-user purchases: Recursive.si sold for $20,000 to AI company Recursive, while Military.si sold for $1,795 to the company behind the military supply retailer Militaria.pl.

Public Ownership Data Is Limited

Register .si limits the public information available for natural-person domain holders, making ownership harder to establish from registry records alone. Cochran's posts cite domains being acquired and later offered for resale as part of his argument.

Asking prices are not completed sales. Public completed-sale records reviewed for this report show four- and five-figure transactions. They do not show hundreds of millions of dollars in realised sales.

The public records reviewed for this report do not establish that the Trump family owned the domains, directed their purchase or received proceeds from them.