Barrens Chat Meets AOL Chatroom

Does anyone remember good old Compuserve?

AOL’s timely acquisition of Compuserve and all of its associated assets in the late 1990’s included a tiiiiiiiny domain name that at the time seemed little more than a footnote on an enormous business deal. That domain? WOW.com, which is currently laying dormant and unused, as it has throughout the massive surge in popularity for World of Warcraft. AOL has been missing out on some serious coin! Apparently they’ve finally thought of the connection between their domain name and the most popular video game in the history of the industry (oh geniuses, I salute you!), and have transferred it to the AOL Games division from PlayGirlz

This isn’t entirely about bashing AOL. Now that they remember they’ve got the domain, rumor has it that AOL plans to turn WOW.com into a WarCraft social network.

More info from TechCrunch