Stories like this one from CNET, Is this the end of Netscape?, are saying that AOL won’t support Netscape past February. See BBC News and Tom Drapeau’s blog entry announcing this.
Netscape Navigator was created by Marc Andreessen (after he co-authored Mosaic at the NCSA) and released in 1994. When Netscape went public in 1995 marks the beginning of the dot-com bubble. AOL bought Netscape in 1998 for billions of dollars. What were they thinking?