Yahoo! Finally Shuts Down GeoCities Service

October 26, 2009 -- Search engine giant Yahoo! announced on Monday that its free web hosting service GeoCities will finally shut down the service today after 15 years.

Free Web Hosting Service Geocities To Close This Month

October 8, 2009 -- Yahoo posted a "final notice" on GeoCities, reminding users that the long-standing free web hosting service will be closed towards the end of the month.

Yahoo Sets Date for GeoCities' Demise

July 10, 2009 -- Search engine giant Yahoo announced Friday on the GeoCities website that it will close the free hosting service on October 29, 2009.

Project to Archive Homeless GeoCities Sites

April 29, 2009 -- In an effort to save the thousands of animated GIFs, blinking text, web rings and even useful websites from going offline forever, Jason Scott's Archive Team it trying to migrate sites hosted by Yahoo!'s long-standing free web hosting service, GeoCities, following its shut down last week.

Yahoo! Closing GeoCities Web Hosting

April 23, 2009 -- Yahoo! is quietly closing down the long-standing free web hosting service GeoCities, according to a report that appeared this afternoon on TechCrunch.

Yahoo Names GOT Email Marketing Partner

December 8, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- GOT Corporation (gotcorp.com), announced on Monday that Yahoo! Inc. has appointed GOT as the exclusive provider of email marketing tools to Yahoo! customers. This is the fourth consecutive year that Yahoo! has chosen GOT's Campaigner email marketing tool.

NaviSite Appoints New Board Member

October 17, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- NaviSite, Inc. (navisite.com) yesterday appointed Thomas R. Evans to its board of directors, effective October 3, 2003. Evans was also appointed to the company?s audit committee, filling the position left vacant the by resignation of Kenneth MacAlpine on July 25, 2003.

Feature Price, Atlantic.Net Discussions Continue

July 25, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Negotiations between Feature Price and Atlantic.Net are ongoing following a dispute between the two companies that eventually led to an eviction notice.

Yahoo Hikes Cost For Geocities Users

March 12, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Yahoo! Inc. (yahoo.com) announced that it will increase the cost of its Geocities Web hosting service for customers who want enhanced features, as part of efforts to monazite more of its free services.

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