User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-25240518-20180826175111/@comment-27345308-20180826203928

I've read over the comments over here more than just once, so I definitely know what are people unhappy about. What I don't understand is why do they think changing the URL will make people think of wikis as "fandoms".
 * 1) In Google search results, only thing that will change is that small green   which I don't think many people would actually notice. I believe it's actually more likely they notice "fandom" in the result name than "fandom" in the URL and as "fandom" has been present in the result name for almost two years this change isn't very likely to change how people view Wikia wikis through Google.
 * 2)   is going to be in the URL because the site being viewed is hosted on a site called "FANDOM powered by Wikia" (or just "FANDOM" since I don't think I've seen "powered by Wikia" in a few months now) and not that the actual site being visited has "fandom" in its name, or that it is about "fandoms". Saying people will associate   with a "Holocaust fandom" is just the same as saying people will associate   with an "All the Tropes Miraheze", and that just doesn't make any sense.