I’ve been pondering to register hillarsaare.* domain since January. I’ve always wanted to have hillarsaare.ee (for aesthetic reasons, because I am an Estonian), but registration was available only to companies and non-profits. The rules were about to change though, since Estonian Internet Foundation was working to allow anyone to register domains. Similar to .com registering. So I had to wait.

In late April 2010 they finally uncovered the new prices. 285 EEK for registrars. To be honest, that’s just way too expensive. For the end-user it would mean twice the price of a .com domain + taxes + registrars profit. Seriosly? What are they thinking? So I registered hillarsaare.com for my blog, because there’s no point in paying thrice the money for an Estonian domain.