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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Second Life, an online world owned by Linden Lab has been operating since 2003. Both Linden Lab and Second Life's Residents make money from Second Life through the trading and use of virtual real estate. Residents use the virtual real estate feature when they require permanent in-world storage of the content they have created or otherwise own. Land on the Second Life grid can either be on the Mainland or on an Estate. Land can be owned either by an individual avatar or by a group. Estate land can be created whenever a user pays the start-up fee. Mainland comes into existence only when Linden Lab's management decides to create some. Linden Lab tends to be cautious about doing so, in order not to drive the price of existing land down too far. New mainland is usually auctioned off to dealers who subdivide it and sell it to other avatars, although Linden Lab does hold on to some Mainland for its own use.