Is it the global slowdown or something else? Yahoo! has decided to close its free web hosting service GeoCities. It is no longer accepting new users and is slated to close later this year. Yahoo! will post the details about the closure schedule this summer. Current GeoCities users will continue to have their web site until later this year.

And, Yahoo! isn't planning any new free web-hosting service.

What other services are going to shut this summer, or maybe later? It's high time people stop relying on any single service provider and be ready with alternatives, if there are any. You can find a list of some good free web hosts to migrate your GeoCities site.

GeoCities will close later this year [GeoCities Help]