User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/How we're testing the fandom.com domain migration/@comment-29403643-20181029174014/@comment-1038387-20181030115037

The https is a different thing.

English language wikis already had https, but for non-English wikis, it proved way too impractical as the licenses only extend to three domain levels - meaning they had to buy a separate license for every wiki with a non-English version (and the many without an English version). That's what the new url path is for.

The change to FANDOM is in line with the change in branding, which is something most of us here saw coming the moment they started using that word.

At no point does FANDOM claim the two are directly related; they're just testing the two at the same time for practical reasons. The https is not implemented to appease people to the fandom.com domain name.