Wowhead

Wowhead is a website that provides a searchable database, internet forum, guides and player character services for the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game "World of Warcraft." It is owned by Fanbyte (formerly known as ZAM Network), a subsidiary of the Chinese company Tencent.
The site first started out as a talent calculator for the game. It was in beta from April 4 to June 25, 2006, and the database was released on June 26, 2006. Wowhead functions as a user generated database relying upon players of "World of Warcraft" themselves, although the information is uploaded automatically through a client-side program.
Client software is available for both the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh platforms. Users can manually add comments to database items or discuss the items themselves in a moderated forum. Comments placed on database items are moderated by the community themselves, with members having the option to "down-rank" outdated and unuseful posts to the point where they are purged, and "up-rank" posts of significance so that they are highlighted. The database is automatically cross referenced by the software between items, non-player characters and zones or dungeons.
Wowhead garnered some attention when it was purchased by Fanbyte (formerly known as ZAM Network), a subsidiary of Affinity Media which formerly owned real-money trading firm IGE. Fanbyte also owns other gaming and "World of Warcraft" information sites such as Thottbot and Allakhazam.
On July 22, 2009, Wowhead announced that it would be offering its members access to premium service for a recurring subscription in order to help support the website. The premium service offers enhanced usage of the website, removes ads, grants a wider range of forum privileges, and allows paying members to skip to the front of the process queue for "World of Warcraft" player character information requests.
In early 2019, it was announced that a new version of the site would be launched alongside the original, exclusively covering data for World of Warcraft Classic and, later, its Burning Crusade expansion. 