Just had an interesting site emailed me, thanks Torley, chock full of interesting Second Life stats that I had not seen anywhere else. Like this one, the recent custom names report, which are the last names that are created and paid for by companies, such as the Reuters reporters, all of their last names are Reuters. Guess who the most recent company was to create a custom last name? Google. It was created on September 19, 2007, and last used on October 9, 2007, so they are not burning the world up, and I suspect they probably had people in Second Life for years, but, this is probably official. As a matter of fact check the list below for some big companies that have created custom last names in Second Life.

Google 5 2007-09-19 2007-10-09
DutchX 5 2007-09-14 2007-10-06
Messenger 3 2007-07-02 2007-10-02
KaizenGames 17 2007-04-17 2007-09-10
Gkguest 2 2007-03-12 2007-07-31
Meltingdots 9 2007-02-26 2007-06-12
GeekSquad 28 2007-02-22 2007-08-10
Showtime 4 2007-02-16 2007-03-19
Xerox 12 2007-02-11 2007-09-05
Ideator 13 2007-01-29 2007-07-06
MadeVirtual 2 2007-01-08 2007-02-04
PhilipsDesign 14 2006-12-18 2007-05-21
Techsan 17 2006-12-08 2007-04-16
CiscoSystems 52 2006-11-30 2007-09-20
Hollywood 8 2006-10-30 2007-08-17
Sheep 34 2006-10-26 2007-10-17
Reuters 5 2006-10-06 2007-03-19
Dell 2 2006-10-02 2007-10-25
SunMicrosystems 31 2006-09-18 2007-10-24
Playahead 69 2006-09-18 2007-08-18
RiversRunRed 31 2006-09-12 2007-08-13
Millionsofus 70 2006-09-01 2007-10-08 Source: Recent custom names List of 100 most recently created last names that have way less users than normal. This usually indicates a private vanity last name, or a Linden experiment.

The payment status report is also interesting, I wonder where he gets these numbers, these only add up to a little over 2 million avatars.

Freebie 1723023
Verified 159233
Payment used 217688
Lifetime account 59397

One more interesting avatar report is the Oldest Non-Linden Members, which lists the oldest avatars without a Linden name. These are either very early adaptors, or Linden alts.

The site also has some region statistics, newly brought online, recently removed and region rating stats. Note, it does look like there are some inaccuracies, so I hope the owner can come and comment on the site.

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