Does anyone know why Yahoo is shutting down Geocities?
“On April 23, 2009, Yahoo! announced that it would be closing GeoCities, and that it will no longer be accepting new registrations, though the existing GeoCities accounts will remain active until 2009’s end. Yahoo! encouraged users to upgrade their accounts to the fee-based Yahoo! Web Hosting service. With the closure of GeoCities, Yahoo! no longer offers free webpage hosting. In response to the closure, rival webhosting services began to compete for the web sites leaving GeoCities. For instance, German web host Jimdo started the “Lifeboat for GeoCities” service to encourage GeoCities users to put their websites on Jimdo. Rupert Goodwins, the editor of ZDNet, perceived the closure of GeoCities as an end of an era; he described GeoCities as “the first proof that you could have something really popular and still not make any money on the internet.” Vijay Mukhi, an internet and cyber security expert quoted in the Business Standard, criticized Yahoo’s handling of GeoCities; Mukhi described
