Porkbun

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “moved my majority of domains to inwx from Porkbun after trying hetzner and openprovider for the same reason”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “you can set your own dns with porkbun, I have customs dns on all of my domains”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-27

• “I'd rather work with a smallish and responsible registrar like porkbun”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-26

• “This is very dissapointing as I switched to porkbun recently”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-02-22

• “I found a registrar that had a physical address, small office, and people listed on the company website (porkbun) so in the worse case I could fly to the office and straighten things out”

  POSITIVE · support · Hacker News · 2025-12-13

• “My DNS provider Porkbun offered a 5 year deal, but I would pay for much longer if I could.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-06-29

• “automatic DNS records for new domains (cheers to https://Porkbun.com!)”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-18

• “Porkbun are one of the few registrars that support IP restrictions on accounts so I can avoid pseudo 2FA SMS or propriety 2FA apps and they have a simple UI”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-03-14

• “So one by one I'm moving them all to Porkbun. Seems great so far.”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-03-14

• “Porkbun is cheaper than Namecheap by a few dollars especially on renewals”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-03-14

• “let's encrypt wildcard certificate my registrar (porkbun) provides out of the box”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-03-05

• “I use porkbun, no idea if they've stayed course in honesty but I believe so”

  LUKEWARM · Hacker News · 2025-02-07

• “Porkbun is my new home for most stuff and domains.lt for .lt which porkbun doesn't offer yet sadly.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2024-12-09

• “have been a happy user of their API for about two years now. They also have much more lax requirements for API usage compared to Namecheap. Porkbun also supports WebAuthn and logging in with a security key. It's overall a much nicer service than Namecheap.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-12-09

• “The symbols in my password caused a 403 error. Porkbun is terrible”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2024-12-03

• “Porkbun seems extremely competent, and they allowed me to register two yubikeys, reinforcing that”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2024-07-16