User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-35245651-20180820110824

Ya'll are foolish for thinking that a for-profit organisation will cast aside progress for holding on to artifacts of the past. This is not Wikimedia, this is not a non-profit organisation, and it is certainly not affected as a whole by public community discussion (RIP Monaco, the reign of the old visual editor, the pre-2014 header, JavaScript freedom, current MediaWiki version support, and old MediaWiki skins). There's no reason to stay at the Wikia.com domain. FANDOM has been going by this new name for about two years now, and leaving all URLs devoid of the company name hurts visibility for those unfamiliar with the site. Soon all that will be left of the old site will be the subtitle "...powered by Wikia", if they even bother to keep that. Wikis are not being rebranded to "Fandoms". They're still wikis. Cancer Wiki will remain "Cancer Wiki"; Fanon Wiki will remain "Fanon Wiki"; Toxic Fandoms and Hatedoms Wiki will remain deleted; etc.. Important and unique wikis are unlikely to lose traffic for two reasons: one, the old search engine links will redirect to the new ones; and two, if the wikis are so important, it's unlikely they will be superseded by offshoots or clone projects, even while the projects have (temporarily) disappeared. It's not like the FANDOM domain is unknown to the major search engines. They'll find most Wikis within days. Most importantly, the majority of the userbase will have forgotten about the changes within a year or less. At the end of the day, FANDOM holds all of its important communities hostage and they know it. Any community outraged at inevitable changes that tries to leave nowadays is doomed to fail. Brickipedia's community once left and started their own site, condemning the original site to death by stripping it of all knowledgeable editors (a problem which plagues it to this day), and the new site to unprecedented invisibility, killing it as well. Today both sites lay in ruins, conferring the same slow fate to the LEGO Ideas and LEGO Message Boards Wikis that left with them. The Spanish Pokémon Wiki is a more contemporary and ruthless example, and although the offshoot wiki still lives, it is trumped by its FANDOM counterpart. FANDOM isn't going anywhere. They can't look back, only to the future.