Hey GeoCities refugees – We’re here for you.

October 19, 2009 on 7:12 am | In Updates by Brett | 20 Comments

Back in April, Yahoo announced that it would be closing GeoCities “later this year”.

Last week they set a date: October 26, 2009. One week from today!

This is your one-and-only reminder that DreamHost is offering two free years of hosting for GeoCities refugees. When the clock strikes midnight on the 26th, former GeoCities customers will lose access to their old accounts forever, and this offer from DreamHost will disappear for all eternity – buried at the bottom of the sea or melted in a nuclear apocalypse. (We haven’t decided yet.)

Two years of blessed liberation...from paid hosting.

Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…hosting.

20 Responses to “Hey GeoCities refugees – We’re here for you.”

  1. Samuel McConnell Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    It’s telling me 1000 refugees have already signed up, so I can’t.

  2. Samuel McConnell Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    It’s telling me 1000 refugees have already signed up, so I can’t.

  3. Matt Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    They have a deal where if you go to Yahoo (overpriced) hosting they automatically redirect your links — is that something that’s open for everyone or just if you switch to their service?
    If it’s the latter, we should try to raise awareness of that issue because it’s evil.

  4. heartfelt t-shirts Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    Free hosting for the strays! good heartfelt guesture!

  5. Heart Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    The contents of the official blog that really exist?

  6. Public Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    yes
    This is a true and correct!

    1.Must use a credit card
    2.Enter the URL to that page in the “COMPLETELYFREE” field of
    the DreamHost signup form.

  7. H-BES Says:
    October 20th, 2009 at 9:05 am

    Only 1000 refugees? No more??? :(

    Ciao
    BES

  8. Baja Real Estate Says:
    October 20th, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    I had my first site at GeoCities… my! How time flies!!

  9. Coeil Says:
    October 21st, 2009 at 3:11 am

    Is this offer still available?

  10. gmpoint Says:
    October 21st, 2009 at 3:30 am

    oh thank you guys,there is nothing better than helping people.
    keep up your great work guys

  11. forex phantom Says:
    October 24th, 2009 at 5:08 am

    thanks guys, I have already got it.

  12. Justin Says:
    October 25th, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    what happened to the shirt contest?

  13. Ben Leivian Says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 2:56 am

    @Justin +1

  14. Nyhm Says:
    October 26th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    @Justin +1

  15. Billy Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at 5:09 am

    @Justin +1

  16. rockstardom Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at 10:29 am

    @ Justin + 1… yeah what ever did happen to the shirt… “tic toc”

  17. Billy Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 5:06 am

    @ Justin +1… i wonder why there is no reaction about the t-shirt contest? i mean i was always pretty satisfied with customer support and reaction times…but on 12 october brett meant that in a few days the winners will be announced in a new blog post…
    as of today the “few days” are 17 days.
    im just wondering…

    hope that the results will be available soon :-)

  18. Alana! Says:
    November 1st, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    yeah,
    i was curious about the contest too! i wanna see the top picks/winners!

  19. Billy Says:
    November 2nd, 2009 at 4:17 am

    a simple “well for reason xyz the results got rescheduled. the winners will be announced on xx.xx.xxxx” would be fine.
    i wonder why they dont respond…

  20. Dreamyhost Says:
    November 3rd, 2009 at 6:24 am

    We at Dreamyhost think that all the entries were rubbish. We have thrown out all of the entries and canceled the contest. Happy Halloween!

    [snicker]

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