What is Porkbun?

Porkbun is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar based out of Portland, OR, boasting low registration prices for domains and email hosting, as well as an easy to use website builder. The service includes SSL Certificates, WHOIS privacy, email forwarding for hosted email, cPanel hosting, as well as easy Wordpress & PHP. Porkbun also offers their own website builder that can support ecommerce through their partnership with Weebly.

Dakota Miles

Web Developer in Information Technology at FreeSpvce (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Porkbun for all of our domains. We have used them in varying capacity to for email (including forwarding), and domain registration. We've used them for domains that have applied to web and email servers, as well as private servers that required domains internally. Our experience with doing so has entirely been positive.

Pros

Extremely competitive domain pricing and discounts
Reminders to renew domains far in advance with generous grace periods
Easy email forwarding

Cons

Can't think of anything!

Most Important Features

Domain Registration
Domain Hosting
Email Forwarding

Return on Investment

Lowered our yearly costs for domains
Avoided dealing with costly domain name sharks
Avoided extra email hosting costs for simple tasks like email forwarding

Alternatives Considered

Namecheap and GoDaddy

Other Software Used

Zoho Mail, Gatsby, Netlify CMS, Cloudflare, Flutter by Google

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