LavaMind's Virtual Pet Cemetery went up for auction on eBay for $1 million dollars in November but did not attract any bidders through the online auction house.

Over the years, the Virtual Pet Cemetery has grown to become the world's best known and most cherished online burial ground. Thousands of visitors from all over the world come to MyCemetery.com every day to read and share the epitaphs.

Both adults and children go through a grieving process when a pet dies. The Virtual Pet Cemetery has provided an outlet for this very personal experience, allowing pet owners to bond with others, leave epitaphs and find friends with similar interests.

LavaMind, a San Francisco based software development company, launched the Virtual Pet Cemetery in early 1995 as an experiment. LavaMind wanted to provide a virtual community for people to share their feelings on pets, loss and the grieving process.

The response was overwhelming. Within a few weeks, the Virtual Pet Cemetery was receiving thousands of visitors. The Virtual Pet Cemetery struck a cord with people, and word of mouth quickly spread.

The Virtual Pet Cemetery went on to garner the attention of media outlets around the world. It has been featured on PBS, the Discovery Channel, ZDTV, NHK TV, as well as German, British, Dutch and Swiss TV. It has also been written up in Entertainment Weekly, LA Times, NY Times, London Independent, Newsweek, and dozens of others magazines and newspapers.

Today, the Virtual Pet Cemetery is the center of a thriving online community focused around pets. In fact, the site has grown so large that LavaMind is looking for an acquisition partner.

"This is not our core business," says LavaMind. "We'd like to see the Virtual Pet Cemetery become part of an even larger community."

Bids will open at one million dollars. Similar sites have been valued upwards of $20 million. LavaMind believes that the uniqueness of the site combined with the compelling content and focus on community make it a prime target for anyone wishing to build or expand an online community, portal, pet or cemetery destination.

LavaMind is a San Francisco based computer entertainment company. It was founded in 1994 and is known for producing the highly acclaimed business simulation games Gazillionaire, Zapitalism, and Profitania. LavaMind has also developed a number of popular Websites, including the Virtual Pet Cemetery, Utterly Outrageous Recipes, and the Lava Zone.