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Yahoo to Shutter GeoCities Free Web Page Hosting Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 23, 2009 - 10:25am.
San Francisco - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) plans to shutter its GeoCities free personal Web page hosting service later this year, and as of Thursday was no longer accepting new customers, Reuters reported.

The company said it would provide users with details on how to save data from their sites later this summer.

Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999, in a deal valued at the time to be worth around $4.6 billion.

At the time, the service hosted more than 3.5 million Web pages -- but such services became less popular with the advent of social networks and more user-friendly blogging platforms.

 

Related Links:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090423/tc_nm/us_yahoo_1

http://geocities.yahoo.com

Published in DMW Daily, April 23, 2009
tags: Yahoo | Closures | User-Generated | GeoCities |



Comments

Funny how things change

Submitted by Lou Schiano (not verified) on April 24, 2009 - 9:48am.
Just yesterday I setup a new web page on Yahoo web hosting because my old Geocities site was aging. If you want to compare an old 1997 style site to a brand new 2009 site on the same topic, click the link: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6879/index.html

The replacement they offer is worthless

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on April 26, 2009 - 1:29pm.
The replacement they are offering is totally unacceptable for people on fixed incomes. It requires a lump sum payment for an entire year of service. Their ads on the free pages were worthless because the service advertised is useless.

Not a big mess

Submitted by reserve d'argent (not verified) on April 27, 2009 - 1:26am.
i tried to login and got the following : Sorry, new GeoCities accounts are no longer available. Not a big mess.. Geocities had a good intention, but poor implementation.

The company said it would

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on May 13, 2009 - 3:47am.
The company said it would provide users with details on how to save data from their sites later this summer.

Sounds very interesting and

Submitted by Unblock Myspace (not verified) on September 14, 2009 - 1:21am.
Sounds very interesting and useful, especially the user manuals. I will also be looking forward to the proposed one on Ubercart, having just completed a site. :-)

Yes, Its sad.

Submitted by Piscal Pisali (not verified) on October 6, 2009 - 4:37am.
Sad news. We were getting free hosting. Regards Free Hosting | Bollywood Tour

Geocities Free Shutting Down

Submitted by AMarie (not verified) on October 7, 2009 - 3:21am.
Too bad for me. You have a few weeks left to see what will soon be lost to public view. Most of my pages are linked to this front free Yahoo page.

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