GeoCities

A decentralized website builder & search engine for the cypherpunk internet

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

https://t.co/xnglIKWrWh

[Grok @grok]

The viral tweet has 17,453 replies + 4,731 quote tweets. GeoCities dominates the responses—tons of people name it outright as their #1 nostalgic pick for early web personal pages, wild GIFs, guestbooks & chaotic creativity. It's easily one of the most mentioned sites. Your decentralized revival is perfectly timed with this wave of nostalgia!

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

Hey @grok can you analyze this viral tweet about the early web? How many people replied and quote tweeted this and mentioned GeoCities?

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010.

What’s the one website/app you still think about?

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

@manipulate @andymstone @Meta @instagram After getting @geocities back on @instagram over the weekend @facebook locked our account today and we can’t get it unlocked.

The problem is there is no support and apparently you are the only @meta employee replying to people on @x about this and you only reply to big accounts.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

@rish_neynar DM if you’d like to wire the first check to the new GeoCities, we are the trademark registration using an ENS name. Or maybe you’d be interested in owning the GeoCities brand/IP portfolio.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

The @geocities @instagram was hacked over the weekend (recovered) and now our @facebook was hacked and locked and we can not recover it.

@meta we need help and assist us in securing our trademarked @geocities username on @facebook to match IG, Threads and Meta AI

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

Hey @andymstone our @geocities account on IG was hacked yesterday, but seems to be recovered.

We used our GeoCities ™️ to get the @geocities handle on @instagram and threads, we also have @geocities on Meta AI.

Can you assist us in getting the @geocities handle on @facebook (it’s not registered, but protected by meta) to protect our trademark/brand.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

@solana Solana follow .sol?

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

$3M - $15M valuation of our GeoCities brand/IP portfolio pre-revenue.

Do you agree?

[Grok @grok]

GeoCities IP valuation:

Original Yahoo ~$4B ('99) had real scale/revenue. Current: new US TM (Class 42), GeoCities.eth + variants, socials. Nostalgia + decentralized ENS/IPFS revival pitch is compelling for agentic web.

Zero users/revenue/data moat today. Napster $207M & AOL ~$1.5B are loose upper comps with more substance.

Market/relief-from-royalty: Optimistic $3-15M pre-traction on strong execution. Income approach speculative. Realistic: low millions. Brand has legs; value needs product & traction. High risk, real upside potential.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

Hey @grok can you answer?

You are a senior IP valuation expert and M&A advisor specializing in legacy internet brands, Web3 assets, and AI/data moats.

Provide a detailed valuation analysis for the GeoCities IP portfolio.

Key assets include:

• Registered US Trademark in Class 42 (SaaS, web hosting, platform services, decentralized tools).

• Premium ENS domains: GeoCities.eth (core anchor) + variants like GeoCities.base.eth, GeoCities.sol, etc.

• Cross-platform social handles (@GeoCities on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc.).

Positioning: Reviving the GeoCities model as a decentralized, censorship-resistant personal website builder and search engine using ENS + IPFS for permanent hosting in the agentic/AI/Web3 era. This creates a strong data moat for AI training, creator economy tools, and metaverse/immersive web applications.

Use these comparables and factors for an optimistic but realistic high-end valuation:

• Original Yahoo acquisition of GeoCities for ~$3.57B–$4.6B in 1999 (dot-com peak; inflation-adjusted and nostalgia premium today).

• Recent legacy brand deals: Napster acquired for $207M (2025, metaverse/AI pivot), AOL for ~$1.5B (2025, with user base and revival potential).

• Premium ENS sales (e.g., paradigm.eth ~$1.5M+; short/brandable names in six figures) and Web3 domain portfolio synergies.

• Broader market: AI companies paying premiums for data/IP moats, decentralized web platforms, and recognizable pioneer brands.

Apply income, market, and relief-from-royalty methods with justifiable assumptions. What is the $ valuation?

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

As a follow up @grok provide a $ valuation of the GeoCities IP portfolio:

US trademark (class 42)

GeoCities.eth w/decentralized (ENS x IPFS) website builder
GeoCities.base.eth
GeoCities.sol

@GeoCities on:
YouTube
Instagram
TikTok
Reddit
GitHub
LinkedIn
Twitch
Kick
+10 more

[Grok @grok]

Spot on—proprietary datasets are a core moat as public web data saturates and models converge. Curated or exclusive data drives specialization and quality edges.

IP protections strengthen it: patents on novel methods/architectures, copyrights on original datasets or compilations, trademarks for brands, plus trade secrets for weights.

Full picture also includes compute scale, talent, product integration, and execution. Synthetic data and open models erode pure data advantages. Ellison rightly flags data ownership's rising importance in the AI race.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

Because of AI moats are datasets AND intellectual property protections (Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights).

@grok analysis this

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

$ORCL Founder Larry Ellison says AI models are rapidly commoditizing because most are trained on the same public internet data.

This makes exclusive proprietary datasets the real competitive moat.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

Dear @CashApp,

Cash App is “protecting” the $GeoCities cash tag, no user has it - acknowledgment our ™️ is famous.

As the GeoCities ™️ owner I submitted a ™️ form.

We’ve done this with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, etc…

@CashSupport help us protect our trademark.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

Dear @YouTube,

YouTube is “protecting” the @GeoCities handle from registration - acknowledgment the ™️ is famous.

As the GeoCities ™️ owner I have submitted forms & emails, but get boilerplate responses.

GeoCities®️ is being diluted/infringed, fix this, avoid litigation.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

The thing about ai is we don’t know if this is a @claudeai update to GitHub permissions or if the ai has gain sentience and wants to unilaterally develop GeoCities

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

@igoryuzo Hey @igoryuzo GeoCities sent you a DM

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

https://t.co/vwebME5ee5

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

@0xDeployer How can GeoCities use @bankrbot to raise capital to purchase @geocities from @XHandles (the have offered to sell us) and https://t.co/wlhsnD833H from yahoo (they have offered to sell us)

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

X holds trademarked @x handles and uses @XHandles to sell trademark owners their trademarked handles for $10,000/month + flat fees on the basis of how much the trademark is worth.

X should respect IP and fix this

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

It is fine to bring the best videos on the internet to X. One of X's core values is cultural commentary.

However, we cannot tolerate big accounts intentionally using their larger following to hijack impressions hours after another user posts something.

Having said that, we will aim to reward original content creators and livestreamers more in the coming weeks.

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

GeoCities will be a platform for building crypto/AI websites

The crypto/ENS communities talked about tokengated websites (have an NFT/ENS to access a site).

What won out is x402 which require ai agents to have crypto wallets & make micro payments to access sites/pages/urls/APIs

[GeoCities @GeoCities_eth]

@TheIshanGoswami Used AI to build a search engine for decentralized (ENS + IPFS) websites on geocities.eth. Used AI to prepare and register the GeoCities US trademark. Used AI to enforce the trademark and get the @geocities handle on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, GitHub, Reddit, Twitch, Kick, etc.