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Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities | Technology
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for consumers, which it acquired for more than $4 billion 10 years ago during the heyday of the dotcom boom. A posting on a Yahoo Help page for GeoCities on Thursday said the service was ...
Yahoo! GeoCities: Get a free web site with easy-to-use site building tools
geocities.yahoo.com — * Yahoo! Web Hosting discount offer is open to new customers who purchase Web Hosting, which is offered for 1-, 3-, and 12-month terms. At signup, customers choosing the 3-month term will be billed for 3 months' service, and the first 3 months of ... (more) Yahoo! GeoCities: Get a free web site with easy-to-use ...
GeoCities will close later this year. - Yahoo! GeoCities Help
help.yahoo.com — Why is GeoCities not accepting new customers? We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will ... (more) GeoCities will close later this year. -  ...
Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities
Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities
neoseeker.com — It is a sad day for many, as we learn that Yahoo! will be pulling the plug on the once extremely popular, personal website service GeoCities. New registrations at GeoCities have been disabled, though existing users can continue to use the service and a... (more) Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities
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