Geocities still up

[David Nebenzahl]

I can still see all of my stuff there as of the time of posting this
message. So am I only seeing a ghostly echo, a cached chimera? Seems to
me that the domain is still active, so their servers are still serving.
Maybe this is like demolishing a large building that takes a long time?

 

[David Nebenzahl]

...or it reflects the usual corporate incompetence
that we see more and more often
where a schedule is laid out and not met.

.... or maybe not.

After doing a Google search in the form

site:geocities.com electronics

and seeing that almost all of the sites returned got redirected to new
(non-Geocities) sites, maybe Yahoo! is actually doing this shutdown in
an orderly, staged way, allowing the old Geocities URLs to be redirected
to new ones. So my guess is that this will persist for, say, a month or
so, at which time they'll actually shut down their servers.