An independent registrar with flat pricing, free WHOIS privacy and a following among people who move domains around.
Who it is for
For someone who wants honest renewal pricing without moving DNS to a platform.
The catch
Smaller company than the giants, which is the point for some people and the risk for others.
Where it sits in the stack
Porkbun is filed under “The domain, which is the only part you truly own” in the stack directory. Its label there is the same one at the top of this page: listed, not tested. I have read its pricing and mechanics and have not run a project on it, so this page describes it and stops short of recommending it. That distinction is the whole point of the directory.
What has changed about its pricing
Nothing, as far as this site has recorded. Porkbun has no entry in the price change log, which means either its pricing has held since this site started checking or nobody here has re-read it since the figure above was taken. The log distinguishes those two cases deliberately, and a tool with no entry is the weaker of them.
The alternatives in the same slot
These do the same job and sit in the same section of the directory.
- DirectNIC — i run this, paid only
- Cloudflare Registrar — listed, not tested, paid only
The whole stack, filterable, with the catch stated on every entry.
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