OpenSim lively customers are up by 1,039 this month, reaching a brand new all-time excessive of 48,234. The overall land space additionally elevated, by 489 customary area equivalents.
Nonetheless, the full variety of registered customers on all the general public OpenSim grids fell by greater than 10,000 since Could. The largest motive for the drop? third Rock Grid is now formally closed, with a few of its communities moved to ZetaWorlds. Final month, third Rock Grid reported 13,615 registered customers, although it had solely 250 actives. third Rock was one of many oldest OpenSim grounds, based again in 2008, and amassed lots of person registrations over the previous decade and a half.
A number of different grids didn’t report their stats this month, together with CandM World, which was lively this month however confirmed no stats on its stats web page. The grid had over 500 actives in Could.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,663 public grids, of which 309 are lively and 253 printed their statistics this month. You probably have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that approach, your grid shall be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 32,547 customary area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most lively, with 6,232 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.


Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are usually personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s just like Second Life and permits folks with no technical expertise to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers without spending a dime utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the really useful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material in your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we shall be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by lively customers
In relation to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new buddies search for grids that have already got probably the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers searching for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,232 lively customers
- OSgrid: 5,186 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,239 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,156 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,025 lively customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,750 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,694 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,650 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,101 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,068 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,023 lively customers
- Moonrose: 936 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 930 lively customers
- Littlefield: 899 lively customers
- Occasion Vacation spot Grid: 839 lively customers
- Astralia: 836 lively customers
- Craft World: 791 lively customers
- Virtualife: 666 lively customers
- Virtualife: 664 lively customers
- Kitely: 627 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 596 lively customers
- Eureka World: 583 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 514 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 511 lively customers
- Digital Vista Metaverse: 507 lively customers
The largest change on this listing was the addition of Digital Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a powerful launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at present 20,793 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,862 product variations, 35,648 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 624 OpenSim grids to this point.


As you’ll be able to see within the above chart, almost all the expansion in Kitely Market has been in content material that may be exported to different grids — that’s the inexperienced space on the graph. The crimson space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material out there in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The directions for configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
Kitely has just lately doubled the efficiency of its areas whereas preserving costs the identical.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Woman’s Dreamworld and Digital Vista Metaverse.
If of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 18 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Admeja, Bernicia, BigOne, Bubble Grid, EducaSim, Eleutherias, Golden Palace Gaming, KittyBlue, Mystic Bermuda, Nice Retreat, Resurgence, Royal Grid, Starfleet, The Crying Grid, Tropicana Grid, Twilight, Uzuri Digital, and VR Playground.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future experiences.
Typically, a grid adjustments its login URI or web site deal with — if that’s the case, electronic mail me and let me know and I’ll replace my database.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, every time out there, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Lively person counts embody hypergrid guests every time doable.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. A listing of all lively grids is right here. And here’s a listing of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by reputation. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 32,547 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,248 areas
- Kitely: 18,077 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,910 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,178 areas
- Groovy Verse: 7,837 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,544 areas
- Digital Vista Metaverse: 3,253 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 956 areas
- Digital Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- AviWorlds: 842 areas
- Associates Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- Craft World: 642 areas
- AvatarLife: 603 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 343 areas
- DreamNation: 314 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Digital Worlds: 229 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 186 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 182 areas
- Kater and Associates: 180 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 168 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- Logicamp: 129 areas
- Galactic Digital: 127 areas
- Outworldz: 126 areas
- XTalent: 124 areas
- Utopia Skye: 116 areas
Have you learnt of another grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.