Change.gov is back
After having been down for several weeks, Change.gov has returned, a day after a transparency advocacy group called attention to the vanishing act.
Change.gov on July 30, 2013.
The Obama transition website Change.gov, a clearinghouse of policy statements, campaign promises, and personnel announcements, is back online after a hiatus of about six weeks. The removal of the content from Change.gov caught the eye of John Wonderlich, policy director of the Sunlight Foundation, who used the site as a way to evaluate how the administration was executing on its agenda.
While the Change.gov site was a relic of the transition, and redirected to the White House web site once the administration took office, the content was kept intact on the original Change.gov site, for those who were interested. According to the Internet Archive, which saves cached versions of web sites, the Change.gov content generated a "page not found" error starting around June 8 -- an error page that was active as recently as July 29.
For nearly two months, visitors to Change.gov found it missing (Image via Internet Wayback Machine).