Yahoo Geocities is Dead

Yahoo decided to shut down all their doors to Geocities, leaving more than one million websites homeless. Is that a great move? On the company’s side, maybe it’s time to throw in the towel and look for other options where they can dominate the web. But how about the webpage owners who host their sites in Geocities? We think it’s about time to call it quits, and to be fair with Yahoo, they have sent a notice to all web owners as early of this year to migrate their sites to other providers as Geocities would be closed soon.

That is why we always suggest that web owners, regardless of what will be the purpose of the website, should at least settle for their own domain name and hosting. There is no such thing as a free lunch, as the cliche goes, and this often goes true. You don’t pay because someone is paying for it -> ads, sponsors, etc. And when they’re gone, the “free” will evaporate, if not become “paid”. So why wait for such time to come? Invest and don’t settle for free, because they might not be around some time.

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