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Wow. What is porkbun and how is it so much cheaper? Is this worth transferring over?

• shiftpgdn 3y ago
  Domains are a loss leader product for everyone in the internet/hosting industry. Porkbun’s goal is to get you to buy secondary products.
  • morkalork 3y ago
    Pretty much. Everyone wants to upsell you on their hosting, page creation and blogging tools where they have ridiculous margins. How much disk space and bandwidth do you think a random small business or Jane Rando's recipe blog actually use vs. what they're being charged for? Not to mention things like "brand protection" where they'll do you a solid and buy/squat your domain on the .xxx and .sucks tlds for extra $$ each month.
  • blairbeckwith 3y ago
    This is true, but Porkbun couldn't be further from the big registrars like GoDaddy in their approach. It is actually difficult to buy a domain on GoDaddy for most people without getting sucked in to buying extras, whereas Porkbun barely even suggests extras at any point since I've been a user, and what are extras other places are offered for free.
• ineedtosleep 3y ago
  FWIW, I like their pricing and overall marketing approach and transferred my domains over a few months ago. Great experience overall.
• tiltowait 3y ago
  I've been slowly migrating all of my domains over and have been very happy with them. Lower prices, faster website, almost ridiculously clean interface. Even has passkey support.
• mikea1 3y ago
  > how is it so much cheaper Porkbun doesn't make money when you buy a domain name, but they may make money when you do not renew it: > At about 21 days into the Auto-Renew Grace Period, the expired domain will be submitted to third-party auction services. https://kb.porkbun.com/article/37-what-happens-after-a-domain-expires https://kb.porkbun.com/article/37-what-happens-after-a-domai... Other registrars, like GoDaddy, do this too.