Due to the termination of the Flipnote Hatena service at the end of May, Hatena will no longer accept new registrations from Canadian or U.S. users under 13 years of age as of Wednesday May 15, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. US PDT (May 16, 2013, 3:59:00 p.m. JST).
We apologize for any inconvenience.