• Yahoo! Decides to Shutdown GeoCities

    Yahoo! Decides to Shutdown GeoCities

    Techtree News Staff, Apr 24, 2009 1242 hrs IST

    RIP, while the company cuts costs

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After serving 15 great years of free web hosting, Yahoo! has decided to shut down its GeoCities services later this year. Yahoo! has already stopped allowing new accounts registrations.

When the dot com boom occurred, GeoCities was the cult just like Facebook or Twitter is at the moment. The service brand had been fighting a long battle with other, better options available online. However, the official reason for discontinuation of this service is yet to be known.





GeoCities was once known for pioneering the personal portal era where anyone could build up their own personal pages. GeoCities got acquired by Yahoo! for $2.87 billion in 1999. However, the service suffered badly in the last eight years or so as blogging platforms evolved and the website-creating and hosting services gradually became cheaper.

GeoCities could never cope up with rapidly changing technology and failed to update their platform. Despite that, GeoCities has been pioneers for web page building. It allowed adding picture, text, web page visit counter and guest book.

Yahoo! urges their existing GeoCities customers to move their pages to Yahoo! Web Hosting service. This web hosting service will include personal domain and other tools like email, site building, unlimited bandwidth and diskspace and more.

It's unknown why exactly is GeoCities shutting down. Yahoo has been in news recently for lay-offs and cost cutting for re-organizing the company management. This shutdown is kind of surprising and leaves one with the same feeling when Yahoo! discontinued Yahoo! Briefcase service.

For official details about the GeoCities shutdown, read the FAQ.



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Tim
,Kansas City, on Apr 26, 2009 01:04 AM
I think you answered your own question: "Yahoo! urges their existing GeoCities customers to move their pages to Yahoo! Web Hosting service." It's a ploy to get free service customers to switch to pay service hosting. Too bad Yahoo is lowering itself to these standards.
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