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smallbusiness.yahoo.com - 4/23/2009
Yahoo! Web Hosting
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1 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 12-month term will be billed for 12 months' service, and the first 12 months of service will be charged at the discounted ...
help.yahoo.com - 4/23/2009
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. -  ...

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Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities
techcrunch.com - 4/23/2009
Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities
— techcrunch.com — 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 . In a message on Yahoo!’s help site, the company said that it would be ... (more) Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities

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Geocities
avc.com - 4/24/2009
Geocities
— avc.com — Yesterday, TechCrunch reported the news that Yahoo! is planning to shut down Geocities . That is sad... news on many levels. Geocities was the web's first community and it was my first "mega deal" when it was sold to Yahoo! in 1999 for $3.5bn (including ... (more) Geocities

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Webware.com:  GeoCities closure reflects Web publishing shift

Ars Technica:  Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic "awesomeness"

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GeoCities closure reflects Web publishing shift
Webware.com — ... Another option is to upgrade to a separate paid Yahoo service: "You don't need to change your service today, but we encourage anyone interested in a full-featured web hosting plan to consider upgrading to our award-winning Yahoo Web Hosting service." ...

Geocities to close after 15 years of aesthetic "awesomeness"
Ars Technica — Believe it or not, the webpage service Geocities is still alive—but not for long. Fifteen years after its original creation, Yahoo has announced that it will shut down the service later this year. An exact date is not specified, but Yahoo is warning current users to consider moving to other options, such as Yahoo's own Web Hosting service. Started in 1994, Geocities was like the Facebook to Angelfire's MySpace—competing webpage services that allowed over-enthused HTML newbies to create artfully horrific webpages to ...

It's time to say good-bye to GeoCities
Webware.com — ... , which would cost $4.99 per month for a year and $9.95 per month afterward. GeoCities Plus customers can port their sites to Yahoo Web Hosting at no additional charge. ...

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Yahoo's closure of its personal home page service comes as no surprise. Today, Internet self-expression is all about blogs and social networks.
Yahoo Pulls The Plug On GeoCities — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 4/23/2009
The move comes a few days after Yahoo said it would lay off nearly 700 workers, or 5 percent of its workforce.
Yahoo to Shutter GeoCities Internet-Hosting Service — Technology 4/23/2009
Yahoo, cutting jobs and closing businesses to stem profit declines, will shut down its GeoCities free Web-hosting service after paying about $3 billion for the unit in 1999.
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