For Barbara Povše and her team at Slovenia's .si domain registry, things have always moved at a deliberate pace. That changed last month when Donald Trump triggered a frenzy of domain registrations.

During a speech to the United Nations, Trump announced that his administration would start referring to artificial intelligence as "super intelligence." He followed up with an executive order.

This led to a surge in registrations that doubled the size of the .si namespace in just a few weeks.

On today's show, Barbara takes us behind the scenes of this unexpected boom. She explains how the registry handled the sudden influx of registrations, why some registrants ran into problems, and what changes the registry is considering to accommodate its newfound popularity.

Also: Registrars pushback on auDA, .org awards, and AI impact on web development speed

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The board of auDA, the group that oversees the .au namespace, just voted to make a sweeping change to registration rules for .com.au domains. It could mean a million or more domains lose their eligibility in a namespace of 3.3 million.

On today's show, Erhan Karabardak, a former auDA board member and IP attorney, joins me. He was one of the seven people on the panel that came up with the recommended rule change, and one of three who voted against it.

Erhan explains what happened and what it means for domain registrants.

Also: Verisign pricing lawsuit, Aruba and ShortDot new TLD plans, IONOS layoffs, drop time changes

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Verisign is introducing .web this year, but the idea for the domain dates back more than three decades. Today's guest was there at the beginning.

Chris Ambler, Director of Domains for Registered Agents, Inc., discusses the long and winding history of .web and his role in proposing the domain years ago.

Nah, he's not bitter at all about not getting the domain.

Even though Chris isn't involved with Verisign's .web, he is participating in this year's round of new top level domain expansion. Registered Agents, Inc. applied for six domains, including .epic, .identity, .mark, .private, .registeredagent, and .verified.

Chris explains the thinking behind these strings, updates listeners on domain registrar Epik, and discusses why the company decided to build its own Registry Service Provider, Astronym Registry.

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