Welcome to the new, new WoW Insider
by Dan O'Halloran 
Sep 15th 2010 at 11:56PM
There may be some broken links here and there or something that won't load while the changeover completes. If you find something broken, send us a tip. Thanks for being patient during the transfer.
Filed under: WoW Insider Business
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Eggbrook Sep 16th 2010 12:02AM
Welcome back WoW Insider
Elmo Sep 16th 2010 4:40AM
All this time I still typed in Wowinsider instead of wow.com.
old habits...
lyons Sep 16th 2010 12:02AM
didn't expect the changeover so soon
JoeHelfrich Sep 16th 2010 12:16AM
Actually, I'm surprised it took as long as it did. AOL may have come by the wow.com name honestly, but using it for something that wasn't about Blizzard's biggest property is very different from turning it into a Warcraft news site.
I just wonder if they handled it with a carrot (a big cash payout for the domain) or the stick (threat of a cybersquatting suit.)
(cutaia) Sep 16th 2010 12:21AM
Nice theory, but you forgot the CIA's place in this whole thing. Adam Holisky was on the grassy gnoll, man! 9/15 was an inside job!
Drakkenfyre Sep 16th 2010 12:43AM
They couldn't technically be cybersquatting since they did purchase the domain before the game came out. I remember it was a content portal. Don't remember exactly for what, I went to it once or twice. Back then, every company was opening a "content portal", and hoping for your traffic. It was probably just a search engine with a bunch of news stories.
They just never got rid of the domain.
I bet Blizzard came along eventually and offered to buy the domain. The guys who owned Starcraft2.com and Diablo3.com eventually got asked by Blizzard for the domains. Both of them gave them the domain without trouble. I am sure they were paid for them. At the time Blizzard said "Oh, it doesn't mean we are doing StarCraft 2 or Diablo 3, we simply want the domain names for copyright purposes.', but we see that wasn't true.
lyons Sep 16th 2010 2:14AM
http://web.archive.org/web/20060527013954/http://wow.com/
is the earliest(AOL) copy of the site if you want to see what it was like
previously it was owned by CompuServe, or atleast acording to the internet archive.
lyons Sep 16th 2010 2:19AM
CompuServe Information Service was bought out by aol,
/facepalm at myself for not realizing that.
Josin Sep 16th 2010 10:14AM
I just wonder how long it'll take them to update all their guide buttons that say "wow.com's Guide to ________"
redux89 Sep 16th 2010 12:02AM
I feel the need to ask.... Why?
relmatos Sep 16th 2010 7:24AM
and what happens to the wow.com domain?
It'd be very bad if t was left available for a gold seller to get it and use it to get accounts from other players?
redux89 Sep 16th 2010 9:22AM
It's owned by AOL anyway, and it'll probably just redirect to the new address.
relmatos Sep 16th 2010 1:47PM
Read the comment made by Alex a bit below yours. It clearly states that it wont redirect to the new one.
Noah Sep 16th 2010 12:07AM
Currently the addresses wow.com and wowinsider.com will take us to wow.joystiq.com. Is this planned to stay this way?
(cutaia) Sep 16th 2010 12:18AM
WoW.com is pretty good at redirecting these things.
Alex Ziebart Sep 16th 2010 12:41AM
www.wowinsider.com will redirect to wow.joystiq.com for the foreseeable future.
www.wow.com will not redirect to us for very long, so update your bookmarks!
Aldarion Sep 16th 2010 2:59AM
For some mysterious yet welcome reason my RSS feed updated itself... On Firefox. Me likey
Jorges Sep 16th 2010 11:13AM
Same here. My RSS feed on iGoogle updated itself. Talk about being efficient! :D
Karn Sep 16th 2010 12:04AM
I miss wow.com, already. :(
Karn Sep 16th 2010 12:05AM
I miss wow.com, already. :(