User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/How we're testing the fandom.com domain migration/@comment-31957572-20181113041328/@comment-8846246-20181113235010

HTTPS has nothing to do with it though, they already had switched all the English wiki's to it a long time ago. I've seen some say the non-English wikis didn't have it, but none-the-less, it has nothing to do with the domain change as it isn't some requirement.

From what I can tell, this HTTPS thing was only brought up because they wanted a "look how good we are, we're keeping you safer. praise us." moment.