User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-33420196-20180817204956

Why are so many people complaining?

Sure, your wiki may not be a literal "fan" of what it is about. Fandom is the name of the company that made your wiki. They made the in-depth coding of your site, they planned each wiki out, they made it so that you could design certain things yourself. The people at Fandom have dedicated themselves to improving and creating sites that we say that we "own". Do they not have the right to change the URL?

If you insist that the meaning of "Fandom" and "Wikia" must be taken in their most literal form, then make your own website!

Try to make a website like Fandom...with all of their features, workers, emails, articles, blogs, full chat, thousands of users across different sites that they have made...then come back and protest their change of advertisement...

The definition of fan reads: "Fan (Noun)- a person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing."

For those on the below mentioned wikis (Uncyclopedia, SubGenius, Discordia), and claim that you aren't technically "fans" of the subject of your wiki...why do you go there everyday? Why are you addicted to chatting there and on Discord? Why do you edit pages? We're all fans of our favorite wikis, whether we are fans of the subject of not!

Perhaps I should also make it clear if you don't agree with the above reasoning, that in any large group of things being categorized (such as wikis being considered "fan" websites), there will always be "odd ones out". There will always be the website, or result (in science) that doesn't quite match up with the rest of them. So, your wiki may not be an area for fans, but the majority of wikis are.

Fandom has put years into this website and have the right to change the URL of their site.