Title: Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website? | Melania Trump | The Guardian
Headings: Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website?
Melania Trump
Melania no more: why did Donald Trump take down his wife's website?
Dan Tynan in San Francisco
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As a nominee for the presidency, the only way to control your online reputation is through your statements and actions

Content: Copies of Melania Trump’s biography page containing the controversial claim were still visible on the Internet Archive at the time of writing. However, there are also inexplicable gaps in the archive’s record. After 14 March 2013, for example, the MelaniaTrump.com home page is no longer visible. Mark Graham, director of the Archive’s Wayback Machine, said “there are various technical factors … that can affect the quality of both the capture and replay of web pages.” He added no one from the Trump campaign contacted the archive to request the pages be removed. As a nominee for the presidency, the only way to control your online reputation is through your statements and actions
According to the domain registration records, MelaniaTrump.com was registered in April 2004 and existed for more than a year as a parody/squatter account consisting of two sentences: “ MelaniaTrump.com For Sale @ the bargain price of 1 Million Dollars! Cmon Donald Trump of apprentice, you can afford it!” Sometime between December 2005 and March 2006, it passed into the control of the Trump organization and served as Mrs Trump’s personal site. Donald and Melania Trump at the Republican national convention in Ohio, where Trump accepted the party’s nomination Guardian
This is not the first time Trumps have attempted to stuff things down the memory hole.