{"id":1376,"date":"2009-10-26T23:12:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T04:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hostingdiscussion.com\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2024-07-30T23:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T23:53:15","slug":"geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Geocities has now been officially closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo<\/a>‘s Geocities web hosting service has finally been shut down by the company. The decision didn’t come as a shock, as Yahoo management announced the plan back in April this year. The Geocities branch has not been performing to company’s satisfaction. Yahoo has been under a lot of pressure and the company directors have been reorganizing the company for the past few months. Geocities has just become another operational unit to be shut down by the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yahoo‘s Geocities web hosting service has finally been shut down by the company. The decision didn’t come as a shock, as Yahoo management announced the plan back in April this year. The Geocities branch has not been performing to company’s satisfaction. Yahoo has been under a lot of pressure and the company directors have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1838,48,52],"tags":[494,496,809,196,206,97],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-asides","category-hosting-news","tag-closed","tag-geocities","tag-hosting-industry","tag-shut-down","tag-web-hosting","tag-yahoo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGeocities has now been officially closed - Web Hosting News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Geocities has now been officially closed - Web Hosting News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yahoo‘s Geocities web hosting service has finally been shut down by the company. The decision didn’t come as a shock, as Yahoo management announced the plan back in April this year. The Geocities branch has not been performing to company’s satisfaction. Yahoo has been under a lot of pressure and the company directors have been […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Web Hosting News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-10-27T04:12:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-30T23:53:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"lee1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"lee1\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/\",\"name\":\"Geocities has now been officially closed - Web Hosting News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-27T04:12:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-30T23:53:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1b2910ccf7a89537abbcf31493a8f571\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Geocities has now been officially closed\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Web Hosting News\",\"description\":\"Cloud and web hosting industry daily news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1b2910ccf7a89537abbcf31493a8f571\",\"name\":\"lee1\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/003a2d41fd324795308e4a0a776c9ea7848e5406735d6ea493a51f3dff805456?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/003a2d41fd324795308e4a0a776c9ea7848e5406735d6ea493a51f3dff805456?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"lee1\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/author\/lee1\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Geocities has now been officially closed - Web Hosting News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Geocities has now been officially closed - Web Hosting News","og_description":"Yahoo‘s Geocities web hosting service has finally been shut down by the company. The decision didn’t come as a shock, as Yahoo management announced the plan back in April this year. The Geocities branch has not been performing to company’s satisfaction. Yahoo has been under a lot of pressure and the company directors have been […]","og_url":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/","og_site_name":"Web Hosting News","article_published_time":"2009-10-27T04:12:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-07-30T23:53:15+00:00","author":"lee1","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"lee1"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/","url":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/","name":"Geocities has now been officially closed - Web Hosting News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-10-27T04:12:18+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-30T23:53:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1b2910ccf7a89537abbcf31493a8f571"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/geocities-has-now-been-officially-closed\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Geocities has now been officially closed"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/","name":"Web Hosting News","description":"Cloud and web hosting industry daily news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1b2910ccf7a89537abbcf31493a8f571","name":"lee1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/003a2d41fd324795308e4a0a776c9ea7848e5406735d6ea493a51f3dff805456?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/003a2d41fd324795308e4a0a776c9ea7848e5406735d6ea493a51f3dff805456?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"lee1"},"url":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/author\/lee1\/"}]}},"views":307,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostingdiscussion.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}