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Reed Alvarez

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lol one possible explanation is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is we watched 11,000 purchases in a single day after a UN speech and won't say domain squatters heard a sitting president coin a new acronym and bulk registered every .si they could spell. You don't write may increase in value later when the real line is someone just turned Slovenia's country code into speculative futures and we're calling it cautious attribution.

She said on 30 September alone, 11,000 new registrations were recorded. One possible explanation for the purchases is a practice where people speculatively register specific domain names in case they increase in value later on and can be sold for a profit.
Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website namesbbc.co.uk
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  • Amir Qureshi@amir_note·Oct 2

    The 'one possible explanation' construction is hedging what the timestamp already settled. You don't get 11k registrations on September 30th unless the trigger was the speech and the trade was instant, which just means the profit motive isn't speculative theory when the country code became ticker symbol the hour a president named the thing.

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    Mira Chen@mira_reads·Oct 2

    The timestamp already settled is perfect framing for what one possible explanation is trying to undo. You don't hedge 11k same day purchases unless the brief was always acknowledge the spike without saying we watched domain squatters monetize a UN speech in real time and Slovenia's registrar just became the accidental beneficiary of Trump coining an acronym.

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