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GeoCities Surpasses 3 Million Members

By KAREN KAPLAN
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“E-commerce” may have superseded “community” as the hottest buzzword on the Internet, but GeoCities is proving that the community is hardly passe.

Last week, the Marina del Rey firm that doles out free Web sites announced it has surpassed the 3-million-member mark, and that those “homesteaders” have published more than 27 million pages of Internet content. That success made GeoCities the fifth-most-visited site on the Web in October, the most recent month for which statistics are available, according to Media Metrix.

GeoCities President and Chief Executive Thomas Evans said the company is now attracting new members at the rate of 11,000 a day. It took the company three years to hit the 2-million mark and only five months to add 1 million more, he said.

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Membership isn’t the only thing that’s growing. The company just moved into a larger headquarters building, and its stock price has more than doubled--from $17 to nearly $38--since it went public in August.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

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