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Are SecondLife Virtual Domain Names Worth Anything on the REAL Open Market?

Proliferation of virtual domain names over Second Life Virtual game. Some simple easy research of all domains which incorporate the “secondlife” phrase as part of the dot.com name for websites, discloses some interesting speculation and bizarre statistics. Following are the url(s), and ongoing research regarding the owner name (if available), and website summary (if there is a website). Is this nothing more than domain name speculation, i.e. cybersquatting? Is it warranted and worth it? Does Linden Lab care? Has LL waived any rights or argument under trademark law under the theory that their phrase has been diluted?

Here are the beginnings of a chart on the existing 245 domain names I've found using the phrase "secondlife", and they do abound across the internet as an easy google search reveals. The majority of them, 99% it seems, are not active, that is they seem to be merely "parked" trying to generate traffic and therefore speculative.

SecondLife Domain Names incorporating the phrase: "secondlife&quot.   General   Conclusions: SecondLife's trademark policy is stated here: http://secondlife.com/corporate/trademark/usage.php; one must ask whether what appears to be an allowed proliferation of domains containing the phrase "secondlife" serving no purpose but domain speculation results in a loss of any residual proprietary or enforceable trademark in favor of Linden Labs in that phrase.the concept of dilution?         SecondLifeDomains.com   containing the most comprehensive listing of urls containing the phrase   "secondlife" and identifying the owner, subject of website, and   country of origin. If you own a website about secondlife and you're not   listed here, no one knows who you are.   Totals:   .com .net .biz .de   (germany) .ar .gr .au (australia) .mx (mexico) .es (spain) .ch (switzerland) .ch (china) .in (india) n/a means the whois information is private and not released

Information assembled here in thsi format is protected by   U.S. Copyright law. 2007, 2008         Last update: November 1, 2007
DOMAIN NAME   REGISTERED OWNER   CURRENT STATUS   EXPIRATION DATE          
Secondlife.name   n/a   Parked – no related content
Secondlifeadvise.com   Digirock, Inc. // Japan   Parked – no related content            
secondlifepoker.com   Roman Portman // Germany   Parked – no related content            
Secondlifer.com   Leading Edge // BC   Parked – no related content            
Secondlifebrokers.com.ar   N/a   Parked – no related content            
Secondlifefestival.com   Alverman, Ltd. // U.K.   Under construction            
Secondlifelabs.com   Chad Jackson // U.S.   Not operational            
Secondlifelaw.com   Chad Jackson // U.S.   Has some blog type postings.   Stopped on 9.12.07. All comments off.            
Secondlife.web.com   n/a // Portugal   Parked – no related content            
Secondlife.gr   N/a   Parked – no related content            
Secondlife.com.mx   Carlos Hernandez // Mexico   Parked – no related content            
Secondlife.mobi   N/a   Japanese no related content            
Secondlife.de   Sven Lubek // Germany   Parked - no related content            
Secondlife.org.es   N/a   Parked - no related content            
Secondlife.net.in     Parked - no related content            
Secondlife.vg     Parked - no related content            
Secondlife-de.de     Parked - no related content            
Secondlifeidol.com     Parked - no related content            
Secondlifelands.biz     Parked - no related content            
Secondlifelands.com     Parked - no related content            
Secondlifelands.net     Parked - no related content            
Secondlifeporn.com   Shacar Lahav // U.S.   Parked - no related content            
Secondlifemafia.com     Parked - no related content            
Secondlifepublishing.com     Parked - no related content            
Secondlifelandloans.com   Marc Woebegone // U.S.   Loans on Virtual Land in SL -   Conceptual             secondlife-america.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-amerika.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-banc.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-bank.net     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-bank.biz     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-bank.ch     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-china.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-chinese.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-erotic.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-erotik.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-escort.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-euro08.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-euro08.ch     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-firmen.de     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-france.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-games.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-hotel.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-india.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-kredit.com     Parked - no related content            
secondlife-lottery.com                
secondlife-movies.com                
secondlife-shop.info                
secondlife-shop.biz                
secondlife-shop.ch                
secondlife-shop.org                
secondlife-start.de                
secondlife-swiss.com                
secondlife-switzerland.com                
secondlife-switzerland.ch                
secondlife-travel-agency.com               
secondlife-travelagency.com                
secondlife-travels.com                
secondlife-usa.com                
secondlife-video.com                
secondlife-watch.com                
secondlife-zentrum.de                
secondlife.net.in                
secondlifeauto.com                
secondlifeauto.de                
secondlifeautos.de                
secondlifebanc.com                
secondlifebordell.com                
secondlifecars.de                
secondlifeclothes.net                
secondlifedresses.com                
secondlifeerotic.com                
secondlifeerotik.com                
secondlifeeuro08.com                
secondlifeeuro08.ch                
secondlifefilme.de                
secondlifefilme.com                
secondlifemarkt.de                
secondlifemarkt.com                
secondlifemars.de                
secondlifemars.com                
secondlifemusic.ch                
secondlifemusik.ch                
secondlifemusik.de                
secondlifemusik.com                
secondlifeparty.de                
secondlifepoker.com                
secondlifeshop.biz                
secondlifeshop.ch                
secondlifeshops.biz                
secondlifetc.com                
secondlifewette.com                
secondlifewetten.com                
secondlife.web.com                
secondlife.gr                  
secondlife.com.mx                  
secondlife.name                  
secondlife.mobi                  
secondlife.de                  
secondlife.org.es                  
secondlife.net.in                  
secondlife.vg                  
secondlife.gs                  
secondlife.nom.es                  
secondlife.org.pl                
econdlife.li                  
secondlife.to                  
secondlife.com.es                  
secondlife.dj                  
secondlife.com.ar                  
secondlife.st                  
allsecondlife.com                
thesecondlife.net.cn              
secondlifeadvertising.com                
secondlifetips.com                
secondlifeescorts.com                
secondlifer.com                
second-life.ag                
secondlifeservers.co.uk   
52secondlife.com.cn
teensecondlife.com.br 
secondlifes.jp 
s-e-c-o-n-d-l-i-f-e.de  
esecondlife.net  
second-life.at  
secondlifecommunity.com  
secondlife2.cn
secondlifedesigner.de 
secondlifez.com  
secondlifeproperties.com
secondlifeadvise.com  
secondlifevacation.com 
second-life.mobi 
secondlifes.org 
second-life.web.com  
secondlifemusic.com
secondlifesource.com
secondlifeporn.com
second-life.co.in
second-lifes.com
isecondlife.com
asecondlife.com
isecondlife.net  
second-life.de.com            
esecondlife.com            
mysecondlife.tv            
secondlifexxx.com            
second-life-sex.net            
secondlife4g.com            
mysecondlife.ws            
secondlifeun.com            
gosecondlife.com            
secondlife-4g.com            
secondlife3g.com            
secondlifesa.com            
secondlife-3g.com          
sasecondlife.com          
tvsecondlife.com            
secondlifefx.com            
secondlifers.biz            
mysecondlife.com          
wwsecondlife.com          
second-lifers.com          
secondlifelaw.com          
secondlifelands.com          
mysecondlife.mobi          
secondlifers.org          
secondlifesex.eu          
sexsecondlife.net
secondlifesex.cn 
livesecondlife.com
pimpsecondlife.com                
secondlifenews.cn
secondlifegame.info                
secondlifedemo.com                
secondlifeware.com                
live-secondlife.com                
secondlifefaq.com                
thesecondlife.it                
secondlifesexe.com.br                
livesecondlife.net                
livesecondlife.org                
gamesecondlife.com                
secondliferoom.com                
secondlifetip.com                
xxxsecondlife.com                
secondlifeidol.com                
secondlifejobs.org                
secondlifestar.com                 
wwwsecondlife.org                
secondlife411.com                
secondlifebuzz.com                
secondlifegear.com                
secondlifeinfo.com                  
secondlifeshop.com                
secondlifewiki.info                
wikisecondlife.info                
thissecondlife.com                
secondlifeboy.com                 
toursecondlife.com                
secondlifeb2c.com                
secondlifecamp.com                
secondlifekids.com                
secondlifegirl.cn                
secondlife-kids.com                
secondlifeblog.eu
secondlifelabs.com                  
thesecondlife.org                
whysecondlife.com                 
teensecondlife.cn                
teensecondlife.com.cn                 
helpsecondlife.com                 
secondlifemen.com                 
secondlifefuck.com                 
moresecondlife.com                 
secondlifelink.com                 
secondlife-shop.com                
secondlifelife.com                
Secondlife.com   Linden Labs, Inc.   virtual reality game                     
secondlifeherald.com     virtual newspaper about   secondlife.com, the game          
secondlifelender.com   Marc Woebegone // U.S.   Loans on Virtual Land in SL -   Conceptual             secondlifeamerika.com                
secondlifeavatar.cn                
secondlifebanc.com                
secondlifebank.ch                
secondlifebank.info                
secondlifeblog.eu                
secondlifebordell.com                
secondlifecamp.com                
secondlifecolumn.com                
secondlifeerotic.com                
secondlifeerotik.com                
secondlifeeurope.cn                
secondlifegermany.cn                
secondlifegirl.cn                
secondlifenews.cn                
secondlifecheaters.com   Joe Schmidli c/o Gamers Guides L.L.C. // U.S. Columbus, MS   Purports to provide cheats to make lots and lots of lindens.   8-Mar-08    
secondlifeguides.biz   n/a
secondlifeinfo.mobi    Parked
secondlifes.info    domains by proxy     Arizona, U.S. n/a
secondlifetimes.co.uk   Minds United     Great Britain   n/a
secondlifecoaching.com Site HQ   117 E Fort St   Manchester, TN 37355 US Parked
secondlifecr.info
secondlifeexhibit.com

Big question in light of SL policy change on whether it is enforceable given the total lack of prior enforcement and known proliferation of the use allowed by them in order for them to grow the Second Life game.

There's Fools' Gold in Them Thar Virtual Hills of Second Life - The Rush for Virtual Domain Domination In a Land that Does Not Exist

"People cannot stand too much reality." C.G. Jung

Not far different than the panacea during the California Gold Rush, the promises of Linden Labs about SecondLife, and the life itself are littered with tiny bits of gold dust and huge chunks of fool's gold in an ever growing desert of segmentation. Unlike the achievers during the Internet boom that made real dollars off of their ingenuity and created real unfettered opportunities, second life's game provided a very limited drinkable "virtual opportunity" during its heyday for only a very few which now appears to be feeling the drier results of its inevitable evaporation (gambling, landbots, and now banking). Only a few it seems will ever be allowed to extract any gold if ever a gold vien is struck in them thar serverfarms of San Francicso. Most that now newly start the wagon treck cross the internet wires to LL's servers, like the many innovative pioneers that have already died or are drying out due to the lack of virtual water (Ginko, Bragg, W University , Europoeans - VAT, casinos... add more as the list grows), these new "venturers" seem destined to starve or be given up or to be slowly eaten one small linden at a time by the vulturebots of SL;; these poor SecondLife avatarsouls, land of virtualdead it would appear, will live out their posterity permanently encoded in a tiny bit of magnetic server space in the isolated growing desert that has become this virtual unorganized unstable web-kind of game.

This result seems to me is constistent with the historical outcomes of simliar historical larger closed communal loopback systems subject or carriers of of ME, "malignant egophenia" (coherently described by Paul Levy in his recent work The Madness of George W. Bush). While not enough space here to fully discuss Mr. Levy's analysis and its applicability to the hysteria and addiction surrounding Second Life, a few points he makes for the world at large and collective hystiera are notworthy for considering why domain farming the phrase "second life" in the real world, like buying virtual land or selling scripted objects in Second Life, is ultimately valueless and detracts from productivity gains in the real world lives of its participants. (Currently aggregating as many "secondlife" domain names and their current status: intial results indicate that over 99% are "parked" awaiting great speculation. A few recently showed up on ebay, (here's a new one: 

SLAvies.com - SL domain name short Second Life Avatars http://cgi.ebay.com/SLAvies-com-SL-domain-name-short-Second-Life-Avatars_W0QQitemZ250130292320QQihZ015QQcategoryZ11153QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQtrksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem

prior ones were not purchased). (Oops, I bought a few too... have to put them up soon). Though a virtual world, Second Life cannot escape, and unfortunately emboldens and propigates this current affliction of the human psyche.

To paraphrase and apply Mr. Levy's analysis within the context of Second Life (using "[]" to signify this author's opinioned modifications to Mr. Levy's original text):

"One of the signatures of ME disease is that it hooks people through their unconscious blindspot, so when people are afflicted by this deadly disease, they are truly asleep to what is being acted out through them." [Participants are] "being manipulated, used and victimized, like [] puppet[s] on a string, by a deeper matrix of coverup and deceit that has been perpetrated  -- and has now taken on an autonomous life of it's own. Malignant egophrenia is an expression of, and is at the root of, the extreme polarization and dissociation in both the human psyche and the world process at large."  "Egophrenia is a disease of the consciousness -- it is consciousness itself becoming so sick so as to create a greater level of health and wholeness in itself. The disease is the conduit through which consciousness grows into greater orders of freedom. In the disease, consciousness is revealing itself to itself, which is to say that the disease is an unfolding relveation." (Which is one of the reasons I insisted I was quite lucky to have been banned and my land taken from me. That act by LL conferred an unintended benevolent result upon me; I was broken free of the disease and its concurrent loopback addicton.)

Looking at the grid and participant and commentators infatuation with the process, it occurs that Second Life engenders a collective psychosis within its limited community, no different than a cult. "It induces a very hard to recognize form of insanity. "When we fall prey to egophrenia, we are unable to recongize that we are taken over, as we become bewitched by our own porjections, [our avatars], accusing other [avatars] of what we ourselves are doing." ... "Part of the sinister nature of the disease is that when we point at it and call it by its true name -- as being a form of insanity called ignorance -- people who are stricken with the disease will see uas as the one's who are crazy. Because egophrenia hooks us through our unconscions, when we are infected with it, just like a sociopath, we don't experience ourselves as being sick or needing help. When we are taken over by egophrenia, we always see the problem as existing in someone else."

"By being duplicitous and trying to hide [ulterior motives are] unwittingly reveal[ed]." The pleadings in my case declaring to the real world that essentially "own" did not mean "own" but rather something like leasing server space (see cite / quote) (Clintonspeak ... "does 'is' mean 'is"?), and in the near past, Mr. Ginsu Yoon's description as recorded by Neva at [secondthoughts.typepad.com], seem to evidence  "unkonwingly giving voice to the unconscious shadow, the part of the [entity] whose intentions are the polar opposite [of] they consciously imagine[] and represent[] them to be at the moment." In their pleadings in my case, and their later statements, and in numerous other ways cited across the internet, the LL had finally begun to meet one of its objectives, to be transparent, "blowing its own cover in the process" and presumably hoping for forgiveness or hoping that there was sufficient momentum, that it had passed the "tipping point" to corporate freedom within the corporate brothehood, so as to continue its way unharmed untarnished and uninhibited by its prior shadows. "Unless we recognize the insidious nature of this psychic disease, there is a crazy-making field around it that will make us a part of itself. Collective psychosis is like that."

More and more landbots for sale!!! And Merlin, on eBay again? LMAO!

So the bank dies, and the assets are being sold... LOL, even landbot code!

"SL Investor's Bank Blog
Equipment
Bot Platform we recently bought, capable of running basicly any number of bots, mainly geared towards scanning for land. Full rights, full Visual Basic .NET source code, with installer. This is A LOT of code! This is worth to us A LOT more, however, it does require still some coding to be usable. Can be used for automated buying and camping also. These functions partially done. IM inworld for screenshots.
Only 800USD, or 220,000L$."
http://blog.sl-investors-bank.com/2008/01/14/sl-international-business-future-info-liquidation-sales-info/

I'll offer them $50.00 let's see what they say.
"

1. I’d be interested in your landbot code, but only for $50.00. You can resell it again if you like, I don’t care. Let me know as soon as possible. Thanx
   Marc Woebegone

   Comment by Marc Woebegone — January 14, 2008 @ 12:53 pm"

And hereeeeeeesssssssss Merlin for only some $423... and some change, guess that makes a difference.... LOL:

landbot for second life.
A program to automatically log into second life and search the land for sale database and automatically buy land at the size and price you set.



easy to use. simple to set up.


Just Added Buy For Group!

Now you can run the bot with a no payment info on file status account and still buy land on the mainland dirt cheap thru the power of Buy For Group!


So new its not even in the screen shot!

you could buy a entire sim for 1/3rd of a penny!!! It's the luck of the draw, or luck of the teleport.

This program has been in use for over year, a never ending saga of progress in both engineering and design.

For less then the price of 1/4 SIM you could buy unlimited land for unbelievably low prices!



goodluck
IM LandBot Merlin
Inworld with questions.

This is a computer program and will be emailed to you.
Zero delivery fee.

You agree that use of this program is solely at your own risk. Everything the program does is provided to you “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of availability, merchantability, accuracy, reliability, timeliness, security, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

---

Bragg v. Linden #6 of Top 10 Articles for 2007

"Top 10 Articles of 2007 and Avatar of the Year: The Seventh Sun - News From
the Virtual World, January 2008 Edition

    SECOND OASIS, Second Life, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- With our first
anniversary a month away, we decided to pause briefly to reflect on what our
readers have found most interesting about the emerging technology and culture
of virtual worlds.  Here are our top 10 articles as ranked by Google
Analytics.
    Immersion in Second Life was our primary focus the early part of 2007,
with forays into Kaneva, There.com, IMVU, and HiPiHi during the later part --
while maintaining a home base and virtual offices in Second Life.
    We consider ourselves privileged to weave graphical stories about the
creative artists, engineers, business people, academics, and other pioneers
who are laying the foundations for the emerging metaverse.  One of these
pioneers, avatar John Zhaoying, graces the cover of this issue as "Avatar of
the Year" for his work creating a forum for virtual world developers.
    The Seventh Sun (www.TheSeventhSun.com) is a joint venture of
Pollywog Press and Surfsplace, LLC.
    And now (drum roll please) our top 10 articles of 2007:

    10.  "Island Scam" (July/August 2007) Con man tricks six people into
         buying same island.

    9.   "Isn't It Time You Had an Animation Override?" (May 2007)  What does
         you avatar's body language say about you?

    8.   "Virtual Worlds Conference 2007" (November 2007) The future of media
         and communication.

    7.   "HiPiHi World" (December 2007) A visit to virtual China.

    6.   "Court Rules Against Linden" and "A Virtual Property Dispute" (June
         2007) Terms of Service deemed "unenforceable" and an analysis of
         Bragg v. Linden et al.

    5.   "Elvis is Everywhere" and "Gallery" (March 2007)  The First Second
         Life Church of Elvis and a Daylight Savings Time service.

    4.   "3D Mind Mapping of Virtual Worlds" (November 2007) The Virtual
         Information Technology Project.

    3.   "Big Media Plays in the Virtual World" (November 2007)  Who are the
         players and what are they doing?

    2.   "The Independent State of Caledon" (September 2007)  Interview with
         Desmond Shang on the developing Second Life micronation of Caledon.

    1.   "Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0" Spring 2007 Summit (May 2007) and Fall 2007
         Summit (October 2007) Philip (Linden) Rosedale, Mitch (Linden) Kapor,
         John (Zhaoying) Jainschigg, and the content developers and
         programmers of Second Life.


     Publisher:
     Pollywog Gardenvale
     pollywog@pollywogpress.com
     Managing Editor:
     Surfdaddy Orca
     surfdaddy@pollywogpress.com

     CONTACT: Greg Campbell
     Avatar: Surfdaddy Orca
     503.984.0168
     www.surfsplace.com

SOURCE  Pollywog Press

Greg Campbell, +1-503-984-0168, Avatar, Surfdaddy Orca, for Pollywog Press"

http://www.reuters.com:80/article/pressRelease/idUS100327+09-Jan-2008+PRN20080109