Later today, June 6th, we will be launching in a limited fashion Second Life’s new registration system.
The key changes of this system will be to simplify the registration form to only require some basic identifying information, mostly for account security. Most importantly: No billing information will be required for free accounts! However, free accounts will no longer receive the starting bonus of 250 Lindens.
For the next few days please don’t be surprised if you see either the old registration form or the new form. While we investigate early results of the new registration system we will likely be tuning it off, updating it, and turning it back on throughout the next few days.
Chris Linden