GeoCities Japan

GeoCities Japan
URL	http://www.geocities.jp/, http://www.geocities.co.jp/
Status	Closing
Archiving status	In progress...
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#notagain (on hackint)

GeoCities Japan is the Japanese version of GeoCities. It survived the 2009 shutdown of the global platform.

Shutdown

On 2018-10-01, Yahoo! Japan announced that they would be closing GeoCities at the end of March 2019. (New accounts can still be created until 2019-01-10.)

Discovery Info

• DNS CNAMEs for geocities (JSON format) (dead link): https://transfer.sh/QYWEG/geocities-dns-data

• Several records available at: https://anonfile.com/z1z62ak8ba/records_zip
  • geocities_jp_first.txt: First level subdirectory list under geocities.jp, compiled from IA CDX data. 566,690 records in total.
  • geocities_co_jp_first.txt: Same as above, for geocities.co.jp. 12,470 records in total.
    • NOTE: The majority of sites under geocities.co.jp are not first-level sites, but "field" sites which are second-level (there could be, in theory, 1.79M of them; how many actually exist unknown), see explanation below.
  • blogs_yahoo_co_jp_first.txt: Same as above, for blogs.yahoo.co.jp. 646,901 records in total.
  • geocities_co_jp_fields.txt: List of field names under geocities.co.jp.
    • Individual websites are listed in the following format: "http://www.geocities.co.jp/[FieldName]/[AAAA]" where AAAA ranges from 0000 to 9999.
  • include-surts.txt: List of subdomains that should be allowed by your crawler.