3RD Rock Grid is one of the oldest names in the OpenSim metaverse — a virtual world founded in 2007, rebuilt for today, and run by people who have spent nearly two decades operating grids at a professional level. This page is about who we are, what we stand for, and why thousands of virtual-world residents have trusted us with their second lives.
Our Purpose
3RD Rock Grid exists to give people a world of their own: a place to build, create, perform, socialize, and belong. We believe a virtual world should be owned by people who answer to its residents — not a faceless service, but a community with real names, real history, and real accountability. Our mission is simple: provide the most stable, feature-rich, and fairly priced virtual world platform in the OpenSim metaverse, and treat every resident the way we’d want to be treated.
Why Join a Virtual World?
A virtual world is what you make of it. For some it’s a creative studio — a place to build, script, and design in full 3D, then share those creations with a global community. For others it’s a stage: live music, DJs, theatre, and events every week of the year. It’s a social space where friendships span continents, a marketplace where creators earn real income, and for many, simply a place that feels like home. Whatever brings you in, you’ll find land to shape, an economy to take part in, and a community that’s glad you came.
Why Choose 3RD Rock Grid?
There are thousands of virtual worlds out there. Here’s what sets ours apart:
Proven Stability
We own and operate our own professional-grade servers — no reselling, no shared hosting roulette. The result is reliability and some of the lowest downtime anywhere in OpenSim.
Real Experience
Our team has been building and running grids since OpenSim’s earliest days — including firsts the whole metaverse later adopted. We’ve seen every failure mode, and we’ve engineered around them.
Best-in-Class Control Panel
Manage your account, avatars, and regions from what is arguably the best control panel in OpenSim — restart your region, run backups, and more, with no support ticket required.
Support That Answers
Fast, human support from people who actually run the servers. Ask around the metaverse — our response times are something we’re proud of.
Honest Pricing
Competitive rates, regular promotions, a money-back guarantee, and no nickel-and-diming: the things other grids charge for, we include free.
Always Improving
We are constantly refining the platform — new features, better tooling, faster infrastructure. A grid should never stand still, and ours doesn’t.
Platform & Technology
- Nightly backups, stored in three separate locations
- Custom-built, fast, self-healing asset server
- Restart your region from in-world or from the control panel
- No inventory restrictions when traveling to other grids
- Region owners get God permissions in their own regions
- In-world Web Search
- Display names via built-in viewer tools — no website visit required
- Your choice of PODEX (L$) or Gloebit (G$) in-world currency
- Leave instructions for your account and content in the event of your passing
Included Free with Your Region
- Free region moves
- Free region renames
- Free estate renaming
- Free group renaming
- Free uploads
- Free OAR uploads
- Free IAR uploads
- Free full region backups
- Free full inventory backups
- Free classifieds
- Free partnering
- Money-back guarantee
Try us risk-free. If we’re not the right home for you, our money-back guarantee means you’ve lost nothing — but we don’t think you’ll need it.
The Company
3RD Rock Grid, LLC is a legally registered limited liability company in the State of Ohio, USA. Operating as a formal U.S. company means our residents and creators deal with an accountable business — with published policies, a designated copyright agent, and a real legal identity behind the grid.
Terry Ford
18 Berrimore Drive, Utica, Ohio 43080, USA
terry@3rdrockgrid.com
Copyright concerns should be submitted through our DMCA Takedown Policy page.