User blog:KuysPotpot911/About the domain change from wikia.com to fandom.com

I heard about the news about the domain change from wikia.com to fandom.com from FANDOM Community Central in early 2019. This will affect 3.200 communities, including this wiki and my sister wikis (such as Grade VI - Sapphire Class Wiki), so they notified users and visitors to prepared for the changes.

The Basics

 * In early 2019 all community domains will migrate from wikia.com to fandom.com.
 * When domains are migrated, all community domains will use HTTPS for increased security.
 * All wikia.com links will continue to work as redirects to the new fandom.com links. You don't need to update any links.
 * FANDOM are working with an SEO agency to minimize the traffic impact.

October Test

 * In early October we will move an initial 3,200 communities to the new domain.
 * About 600 are English communities, and the rest are international communities.
 * International communities will also have the new language path (i.e. starwars.fandom.com/es) as part of HTTPS support.
 * All migrated communities will be notified ahead of time.
 * Our expert SEO team will monitor the migration to make sure it goes smoothly.
 * We'll post an analysis of the test after a few weeks.

Others

 * They've appreciated all of your feedback about how non-pop culture communities fit into the fandom.com domain structure.
 * They'll have an update about that soon.

Before the domain migration
While that's not yet happening right now, the current URL of a English wiki is: (SITENAME means your wiki name; varies on other languages) yourwiki.wikia.com/wiki/SITENAME ...and on an international wiki: (lang means language code) lang.yourwiki.wikia.com/wiki/SITENAME

After the domain migration
English wiki URL: https://yourwiki.fandom.com/wiki/SITENAME International wiki URL: https://yourwiki.fandom.com/lang/wiki/SITENAME

What's difference?
Before the domain migration, when you're an logged-out user, it's unsecure and when you log in (or create an account), it will make it secure. But after the domain changes, it's now secured, thanks to HTTPS (even you're logged-out), to add security and encryption between you and the server. Also the wikis in other languaged other than English changed too.

Summary
Since this is an test run, FANDOm will test the SEO (Search Engine Optmization) impacts of the domain and they publish the report after they completed it. IF it's good, they will migrate their domain. If not, improving it and/or even they'll still on dry run. To learn more, visit this page from Community Central/ Have an nice day! Go to article for FAQ: ​​​​​​​https://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Brandon_Rhea/How_we%27re_testing_the_fandom.com_domain_migration