Can you believe Donald Trump didn’t register these scandalous domains?

by Jacob Kastrenakes

Aug 17, 2015, 9:26 PM UTC

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Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade.

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If you’re a man like Donald Trump — a huge figure in business, reality TV, and suddenly politics — it makes sense to play some defense. Last week, we found out that Trump has been registering thousands of domains, including some negative domains that opponents could use against him, like “voteagainsttrump.com.” But despite his vast wealth, Trump failed to register quite a few scandalous sites. Here are a few of the potentially harmful domain names that we were able to find.

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