Editing CompuServe (section)

=== Wow.com domain ===
AOL retained the [[domain name]] wow.com after it acquired CompuServe, and kept it dormant from the shut-down of Wow! until 2007. In mid-2007, AOL considered transferring its [[Digg]]-style [[news aggregator]], then hosted at [[Netscape|Netscape.com]], to wow.com,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Arrington |first=Michael |date=August 31, 2007 |title=Update On Netscape.com: It's Done, Possibly Moving To WOW.com. Big AOL Layoffs Coming. |work=[[TechCrunch]] |url=https://techcrunch.com/2007/08/31/update-on-netscapecom-its-done-possibly-moving-to-wowcom |access-date=September 12, 2013}}</ref> before ultimately transferring it to [[Propeller.com]]. Toward the end of the year, AOL was reportedly working on using the domain for a [[social networking service]] concerning the popular online role-playing game ''[[World of Warcraft]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Arrington |first=Michael |date=October 2, 2007 |title=AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network |work=TechCrunch |url=https://techcrunch.com/2007/10/02/aol-finds-an-obvious-use-for-wowcom-world-of-warcraft-social-network |access-date=September 12, 2013}}</ref>

From October 2010 until its 2015 shut-down, some of that was transferred to a subdomain of [[Joystiq]]. The domain wow.com was used simultaneously as a [[deal of the day]] site similar to [[Groupon]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schonfeld |first=Erick |date=October 5, 2010 |title=Wow! AOL Thinks It Can Succeed As The 500th Groupon Clone |work=TechCrunch |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/05/wow-aol-groupon-clone |access-date=September 12, 2013}}</ref> However, that site was also short-lived, shutting down in late 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wow FAQs |url=http://help.aol.com/help/microsites/microsite.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=46336 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420213936/http://help.aol.com/help/microsites/microsite.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=46336 |archive-date=April 20, 2013 |access-date=September 12, 2013 |publisher=[[AOL]] |quote=Print off all your Wowchers by Dec. 31, 2011.}}</ref>

As of January 2019, wow.com is a search engine powered by [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]], using the same back-end as AOL Search, which is now part of [[Oath Inc.]]