Yahoo GeoCities is closing..! Act Now..!
Geocities, one of the popular free web-Hosting services provided by Yahoo is getting closed soon. Your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web after October 26, 2009. If you have a site hosted there, then you need to act fast now…
What You Need to Do Now:
If you’d like to move your web site, or save the Images and other files you’ve posted online, you need to act now by choosing one of the following options:
1. Move your site to Yahoo! Web Hosting:
You can move your site automatically to Yahoo paid web hosting. Take advantage of terrific features like a personalized domain name and email, even redirect your GeoCities web address to your new site, all this costs $4.99 a month for a full year.
2. Download your files to your own computer:
With your pages and images saved offline, you can re-create your site with any hosting provider. To quickly download your published files, visit your GeoCities web site, right-click on each page, and choose Save Page As… From the menu that appears. Choose a location on your computer to save your files, then click OK or Save.
Why is GeoCities closing?
There is not straight forward reason from Yahoo. But, all this seems to be, Yahoo planned to Reduce the cost of maintain all the free web servers. And this way they can increase the paid web hosting revenue. Here is what Yahoo saying…
We have enjoyed hosting web sites created by Yahoo! users all over the world, and we’re proud of the community you’ve built.
However, we have decided to focus on helping our customers explore and build relationships online in other ways. Beginning on October 26, 2009, you will no longer be able to use GeoCities to maintain a free presence online — but we’re excited about the other services we have designed to help you connect with friends and family and share your activities and interests.
Yahoo Suspended Signup’s long time back?
It’s yes, as per TechCrunch’s publication on April 23, 2009.
Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Yahoo! is unceremoniously closing GeoCities, one of the original web-hosting services acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for $2.87 Billion. (Fun venture fact: Fred Wilson’s Flatiron Partners was an investor). In a message on Yahoo!’s help site, the company said that it would be shuttering Geocities, a free web-hosting service, later this year and will not be accepting any new customers. Existing customers will still be able to access use GeoCities but Yahoo! is encouraging these customers to upgrade to Yahoo!’s paid Web Hosting service.
Are you satisfied with Yahoo’s reason? I’m not! Do you have a blog there? Share with us! Happy Blogging!!
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Recession impact?
In any case, I did not have Geocities a/c but I had one on tripod for about 11 years now and it was acquired by lycos long ago.
I don’t use it though, but my first personal home was on tripod.
Recession impact only
They though its waste of money and time to prove free.
And at least 50% of people will move to Yahoo paid Hosting na..That makes huge revenue to Yahoo.
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Ohh you know this already? Then you didn’t shared dude..We have blogging friends on Geocities too na
I’ve never bothered with those free web-Hosting services, for exactly this reason. Perhaps this will encourage people to start hosting their own sites.
We don’t have blogs there…but people who started blogging in early stages has their blogs on Geocities only. That was the famous those days..
Of course it will encourage everyone to have own Hosting..but money matters here
I am surprised that there are no emotional comments on this post. Because many people including me had their first page created on Geocities.
May be you people are too young but there used to be a time when the average engineering student did not have a credit card forget about paypal account or Adsense. The free hosts used to be the only way we could manage to express ourselves online
Ohh You had blog there? Did you took it out now?
Yes as you said, all these young guys don’t know Geocities much, but i read many blogs hosted on GeoCities.
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I also got an email from Yahoo, but no problem, I only host some Images on Geocities. Time to find new free host
There are many new free hosts came…Mydragndrop.com is one new which i like and want to share in my coming posts.
Thanks for sharing, waiting for your next posts
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
They Do not give any means for you to redirect. I called and they say – no redirect. But I already transferred my site to their other site, bought domain and service from them. Does anyone knows what is going on?
If you buy a premium with them, then you don’t need to bother really. But i Do expect that, they should give redirect option to those premium customers at least.
Was their webhosting package reliable in present? I would love to know some reviews about yahoo webhosting services.
My friends in school have a site hosted by Geocities. But they are not aware what was the latest updates from geocities.
So I told them that their websites will no longer available on the web starting October 26, 2009.
And they are so sad…
I’ve never bothered with those free web-Hosting services, for exactly this reason. Perhaps this will encourage people to start hosting their own sites.