Second batch from the nostalgic directory backlog: eight audited first-party, four bands from live counters, four unknown.
The eight
| Server | What it is | Tier basis |
|---|---|---|
| Digital World | WotLK with shared game/site accounts | unknown, no counter published |
| Luminary | Russian Vanilla, patch 1.7 with ZG on Oct 31 | unknown, widget shows a dash |
| Yggdrasil | Devlog-driven project, NPC pathing update Sep 22 | unknown, no counter published |
| ReforgedCraft | Two realms Online, 3 total | tiny, site's own 3 |
| EvoWoW | Voting shop realm, 1 online | tiny, site's own 1 |
| WoW-Vicious | Fresh FusionCMS install, 0 online | tiny, site's own zero |
| Aetheria | Progressive with DK tier sets, 0 online | tiny, site's own zero |
| WoW Tales | Spanish TBC Phase 1, opened Oct 2 | unknown, 248 accounts is cumulative |
WoW Tales opened two days ago
The most time-sensitive find: WoW Tales officially opened on October 2 2026, running TBC Phase 1 content on the 3.3.5a client with its own launcher, and announced a hardcore level-70 event on September 30.
A two-day-old realm is the noisiest possible moment to measure, which is exactly why the tier is unknown rather than read from its 248 accounts and 381 characters. Those are registrations, and registrations on day two measure marketing.
Luminary's October 31 goes on the calendar
Luminary's news, posted September 23, dates patch 1.7 opening Zul'Gurub to October 31 2026. That joins Nozdor's DUNE (Oct 16), uWoW's MoP realm (Oct 16), UwowSA's 7.2.0 (Oct 10) and Stonetavern's gate (Oct 23) as the fifth dated private-server claim we hold. All five get re-checked on their dates.
Four zeroes, four different meanings
Kaelara, WoW-Vicious, Aetheria and EvoWoW all read 0 or near it, and the entries distinguish what kind of zero each is. Kaelara's is a community project idling. WoW-Vicious is a fresh install still showing the template post, which is a beginning rather than an ending. Aetheria's sits beside 2 days of uptime. EvoWoW's is 1, which rounds to a story about smallness rather than emptiness.
A zero on a live widget is a reading like any other, and it bands tiny. What it does not do is distinguish dying from starting, and the entries say which where the evidence exists.
SOURCES: each project's own site, read October 5 2026 with a control domain probed in the same batches. Player counts are the projects' own widgets, self-reported. We did not create accounts and did not play. Related: batch one, how we review a private server, and the grading scale.