What happens to campaign Web sites after an election?

I was watching an old episode of Have I Got News For You and a David Cameron promotional site was mentioned so I checked it out. His people must have let the domain name expire as it's now a spam blog called David Cameron Journalism.

David Cameron improving your life, one shitty link farm at a time.

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Noit@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

If you have the domain you can probably look it up on archive.org.

Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 3y

Indeed but it was a rhetorical question about politics domains being abandoned and then hijacked by spammers and any subsequent reputational damage.

edent@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 3y

The campaign website belongs to the person - or political party - running it. They aren't official government websites, so they aren't eligible to be automatically archived at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/