WoW.com is moving to wow.joystiq.com
by Dan O'Halloran 
Sep 13th 2010 at 3:30PM
Now we are moving forward once again and we will be rejoining with our flagship site at the new address wow.joystiq.com. And we will again be known as WoW Insider. The move hasn't happened yet, so don't be alarmed if you go to that address and see other video game news. It will be happening very soon.
We're still the same team working for the same people writing the same great content for you every day. We have not been bought, sold or otherwise mangled by the Twisting Nether. This is simply a website address change. Adam, Alex and Sacco will still answer your questions in The Queue every day, class columnists will still post weekly updates on how to be a better player and Michael Gray will still be posting pictures of the canine incarnation of Sylvanas, Queen of the Forsaken.
When we change over, please update your bookmarks and excuse the mess while we fix any broken code or links on our side. If you read our site through an RSS reader, you will need to update to the new feed when it becomes available, if you subscribed to the WoW.com feed. The older WoW Insider RSS feeds will redirect to the new site.
Thanks for bearing with us through this transition. We have a lot of great content planned for you in the coming months including our infamous and extensive BlizzCon coverage, our Cataclysm beta news and analysis and more!
Dan O'Halloran
Editor-in-Chief, WoW Insider
Part of the Joystiq network
Filed under: WoW Insider Business
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 12)
Clydtsdk-Rivendare Sep 13th 2010 3:32PM
inb4 some idiot posts "first"
Anyway, great to be letting us know that, and good luck with a smooth transition.
THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) Sep 13th 2010 3:44PM
You did the same childish thing, you massive wanker. YOU ARE THAT IDIOT.
Clydtsdk-Rivendare Sep 13th 2010 3:52PM
Obviously I suck at predictions. My apologies.
Same good wishes as previous post.
Darky Sep 13th 2010 8:00PM
Buh Clydtsdk you really aren't very good at detecting these things.
BigBadGooz Sep 13th 2010 8:53PM
Genneral akbar: IT'S A TRAP
jishdefish Sep 13th 2010 3:33PM
O.O Wow, did not see that coming.
Narshe Sep 13th 2010 6:14PM
WoW.com was merely a setback!
Or would that be AOL was merely a setback?
BigBadGooz Sep 13th 2010 8:58PM
Does this mean we may see the return of mike shram the original badass of the wow insider show since he left to joystiq.
Dristan Sep 13th 2010 11:11PM
@BigBadGooz
Gods let's hope not. I had pretty much stopped listening to the wow insider before the new team took over and made it awesome again. Lore discussion FTW mate.
Vladeon Sep 14th 2010 1:53AM
WTB Turpster :*(
John Sep 14th 2010 3:00AM
This is very strange news:
1. Wowinsider goes under the joystiq banner
2. wow.com belongs to AOL and now wowinsider needs to move and inconvenience all the readers.
The only way I'm reading this is that AOL is trying to sell off joystiq, or wow.com domain, or both.
Darkharmony Sep 14th 2010 3:50AM
I sure hope that wow.com still works. Why give up such a great url and force us in to using the suburl. It's a really bad idea from all standpoints.
BigBadGooz Sep 14th 2010 5:40AM
@dristran
I agree about the rich lore. One of the reasons i absolutely disliked turpster he was not too hip about digging into it. However if lore is what you want you could spend days at wowwikki I've found that a entertaining site.
Todd Sep 14th 2010 3:19PM
I sometimes forget that AOL is still around. I much perferred wow.com. I stopped reading joystiq so long ago, mainly because of all the flame wars going on with posts. That doesn't happen here, but being merged back into the dreadfully awful mother ship... well... hopefully this blog doesn't go down the sh!t hole.
Todd Sep 14th 2010 4:55PM
@Darkharmony
This move is called "bad advertising" but AOL wouldn't know anything about that.
o.O
Mailia Sep 15th 2010 10:11AM
I really want to know the main reason for this change.
Cookalooka Sep 13th 2010 3:33PM
yuck! I hate changes to my URL rituals!
Urza Sep 13th 2010 3:43PM
Indeed. My bookmark is still set to wowinsider.com and will forever be set to that until it no longer works. :)
Kemikalkadet Sep 13th 2010 4:41PM
Haha wow, i thought i was the only one that still uses wowinsider.com instead of wow.com. Hopefully i'll still be using it when the move to joystiq happens. I'm far too lazy to update bookmarks.
elvendude Sep 13th 2010 5:06PM
@Uzra - Mine still reads WowInsider, but I did update the URL. I will probably do the same again. heh.