The End of the Line

Great news:

“Dear LYCOS Tripod customer,

As you might have heard in the media, the management and the board of directors of LYCOS Europe N.V. have decided to liquidate valuable businesses and cease unprofitable activities. Unfortunately the web hosting business which includes Tripod is one of these.

This means that we will continue providing our Tripod services for only a limited period.

We will inform you about any upcoming changes in sufficient time. Though details are not yet clarified, we expect the Tripod platform to be operating during the first quarter of 2009.

As soon as we have further details about the planned measure, you will immediately be informed. We expect this to happen in a few days.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. We strive to enable a smooth transfer of your presence. We ask for your understanding that we cannot provide you with further information at this point of time. We also ask for your understanding that you might experience delays in response times from our support team in the next days as we expect an increasing volume of requests.

Please refrain from contacting our support team via telephone in this matter as no additional information can be provided by this channel.

Thank you for your patience and your understanding.”

I need to find a new host. Any suggestions? I’m seriously thinking about a .com, .net, .whatever.

I guess this explains why the advertisements have been so heavy.