No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is geocities.com legit or a scam?
Historic GeoCities domain now serves legitimate Yahoo homepage with clean blocklists and zero modern scam reports.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page loads Yahoo's news and services content with matching title and description. The domain is over 30 years old and owned by Yahoo since 2009. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned clean. The hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. Evidence confirms this is the original GeoCities site repurposed by Yahoo with no current scam activity.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for geocities.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- GeoCities (geocities.com) was a free web hosting service launched Nov 1994 by David Bohnett and John Rezner, acquired by Yahoo! Jan 1999, shut down Oct 26 2009
- Wikipedia: 'active from 1994 to 2009... Current status: Inactive since October 26, 2009'
- FTC complaint filed 1998 against GeoCities (California corp) regarding privacy practices: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/1998/08/geo-cmpl.htm
- Domain now associated with Yahoo (page title/desc matches Yahoo homepage); multiple archive projects preserve old sites (oocities.org, geocities.restorativland.org, Archive Team)
- Extensive Reddit/HN discussions focus on nostalgia and history; no modern scam or complaint reports found in searches
- One 1997 CNET report: 'GeoCities takes down site rating students'
GeoCities founded 1994 in California; acquired by Yahoo! 1999; service shut down Oct 26, 2009; domain owned by Yahoo! Inc. (2009–present)
Our research found the domain is the original GeoCities site acquired by Yahoo in 1999 and shut down in 2009. One historical FTC complaint from 1998 regarding privacy practices was noted, but no modern scam reports or complaints appear on Reddit, news sites, or consumer forums.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2026-05-26).
- Links to 10 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://geocities.com/
- 2200https://www.yahoo.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on geocities.com and not a lookalike like g-eocities.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on geocities.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- geocities.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. geocities.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, expiring in 138 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- geocities.com is 30.5 years old, registered on 12/15/1995 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. geocities.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- geocities.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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