Zombie URLs? 7 Geocities Pages That Are Still Alive!

I don’t know what’s going on here, but these 7 URLs from www.geocities.com are still alive. Zombie URLs!!! I feel like I’m in I Am Legend or 28 Weeks Later, and I just found the other survivors. At any rate, these zombie URLs are probably hungry for brains. Maybe it was a glitch that was just in time for Halloween. I dunno. But I’ve gotta give it up to these URLs for surviving Yahoo’s mass extinction event last Monday. It’s evolution in action – on the interwebs!

• http://www.geocities.com/bradreviews/
• http://www.geocities.com/heartland/bluffs/8481/
• http://www.geocities.com/johnniemccoy/
• http://www.geocities.com/kintoraaikido/
• http://www.geocities.com/markohlson2002/
• http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/2220/
• http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/5860/

I know that Yahoo was giving Geocities users the opportunity to get their Geocities URLs redirected to a custom domain (btw, a domain that you could purchase from Yahoo and then host with a Yahoo webhosting account). Those 7 URLs are not being redirected. They actually return 200 OK in the header response.

Just so we have something to compare those zombie Geocities URLs to, here are a few Geocities URLs that have been redirected via 301 redirects. Could it be that Yahoo is learning some SEO? Welcome to the new millennium.

• http://www.geocities.com/amitasirohi/
• http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3575/
• http://www.geocities.com/peakesi/

So there you go? Can anyone explain why these URLs are still alive? Could they belong to Yahoo employees? Hmmm…