Free homepage service 'Yahoo! Geocities' terminated service at the end of March 2019

It was announced that " Yahoo! Geocities ", which was developed as a service that anyone can easily create their own "home page" (website), will be terminated as of the end of March 2019. GeoCities abroad has already finished service in 2009 and the remaining geo cities are only in Japan.

Notice of service termination - Yahoo! Geocities
https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html

"GeoCities" was a service born in the USA in 1994. Although there were other services that can make a homepage free of charge at first, in the beginning, the domain of the URL domain and below was structured as "/ street name / street /", taking the shape as if it is a virtual city.

Japan founded in 1997. Since 2000, it has been operated as "Yahoo! Geocities", as with other services, the account name is now being used as the URL structure.

However, overseas GeoCities terminated service in 2009.

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Since then, the deployment has been continued only in Japan, but due to the comprehensive judgment of profitability and technical issues for maintaining the service, it is difficult to continue further, so the end of service at the end of March 2019 Has been decided.

There are still many sites on GeoCities, and while there are voices saying "I want you to disappear as it is a black history", there are also people who need that information somewhere, and in Yahoo! Geocities, " We have continued with the policy to leave as much as possible ". This way of thinking is also kept in the announcement of the termination of this service, and guidance is given so that even one site can move to another service and continue.

Candidates who are cited as candidates for relocation are performing "transfer campaign" with " Sakura rental server ", " lollipop! " " X server " " XREA " " ninja homepage " " star server ".

As a detailed schedule, purchase and change of new opening / paying plan ends on January 10, 2019. As of March 31, 2019, it became impossible to display the page, use the management screen, upload by FTP, and can apply for transfer setting so far. Transfer stopped on September 30, 2019. Even after that, only FTP data downloading and deletion is possible, but as of March 31, 2020 it will be totally deleted.

If you want to leave the page on the Internet, or if you only want to keep data on hand, do not forget to do the work.