OpenSim energetic customers are up by 1,039 this month, reaching a brand new all-time excessive of 48,234. The entire land space additionally elevated, by 489 normal area equivalents.
Nonetheless, the entire variety of registered customers on all the general public OpenSim grids fell by greater than 10,000 since Might. The most important cause 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 gathered quite a lot of consumer 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 energetic this month however confirmed no stats on its stats web page. The grid had over 500 actives in Might.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,663 public grids, of which 309 are energetic and 253 printed their statistics this month. When you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that means, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the most important grid by land space, with 32,547 normal area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most energetic, with 6,232 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.

Our stats don’t embody many of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are usually non-public grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s just like Second Life and permits folks with no technical expertise to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers without cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory 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 to your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now obtainable
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe right here or fill out the shape under.
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High 25 grids by energetic customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new associates search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers searching for the largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
Wolf Territories Grid: 6,232 energetic customers
OSgrid: 5,186 energetic customers
GBG World: 2,239 energetic customers
DigiWorldz: 2,156 energetic customers
Alternate Metaverse: 2,025 energetic customers
Vida Dupla: 1,750 energetic customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 1,694 energetic customers
WaterSplash: 1,650 energetic customers
Neverworld: 1,101 energetic customers
AviWorlds: 1,068 energetic customers
Trianon World: 1,023 energetic customers
Moonrose: 936 energetic customers
AvatarLife: 930 energetic customers
Littlefield: 899 energetic customers
Get together Vacation spot Grid: 839 energetic customers
Astralia: 836 energetic customers
Craft World: 791 energetic customers
Virtualife: 666 energetic customers
Virtualife: 664 energetic customers
Kitely: 627 energetic customers
ZetaWorlds: 596 energetic customers
Eureka World: 583 energetic customers
Groovy Verse: 514 energetic customers
Herederos Grid: 511 energetic customers
Digital Vista Metaverse: 507 energetic customers
The most important change on this listing was the addition of Digital Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a robust launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 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 so far.


As you’ll be able to see within the above chart, practically 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 most important assortment of authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for tips on how to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
Kitely has lately doubled the efficiency of its areas whereas retaining costs the identical.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Woman’s Dreamworld and Digital Vista Metaverse.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 18 grids have 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, e-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 obtainable, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time doable.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked knowledge for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all energetic 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 best way 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
Buddies 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 Buddies: 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
Are you aware of some other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.