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Consider moving to Porkbun, where they have actual humans who know what DNS is and how it works. I moved a test domain to them. I was impressed that they not o

Consider moving to Porkbun, where they have actual humans who know what DNS is and how it works. I moved a test domain to them. I was impressed that they not only moved the domain while keeping the correct nameservers, but they also imported existing DNS glue, too, meaning there wasn't the tiniest bit of downtime.

rafram 2y ago
Porkbun is great. Never had an issue with them. Often one of the cheapest options, too.
abound 2y ago
I also went to Porkbun (and recommend it, they're great), though in migrating ~30 domains, I must have found 10 different ways to accidentally cause outages: - Not turning off DNSSEC before migrating - Moving the domain with no prep work (Google Domains nameservers stop resolving as soon as the migration is complete) - Starting the migration without updating nameservers (starting a transfer locks them on Google Domains) These are all of course 100% my fault (and I should have read the "External Domains" docs better), but it was surprisingly tricky to get right.
sohamgovande 2y ago
+1 for PorkBun. Been using them for 4 years. Cheap prices, great support, fully reliable. What more can I ask for.
temp0826 2y ago
I really want to move my domains (off of Gandi since the ownership change) to porkbun. Unfortunately they don't support a tld of one of my domains (.st) and I really don't want to have my domains managed at multiple places.
- threecheese 2y ago
  Must be their business model! Same issue here (diff tld).
_akhe 2y ago
How shallow am I if I just don't like the name "Porkbun"? It's the main reason I never used GoDaddy back in the day, simply didn't want to see or think of that word, just didn't like it lol. Funny that it's the only reason I was never their customer as there was a time their cPanel experience was slightly less bad than the others. So yeah I'll never use Porkbun and my only shallow reason is their awful brand name.
- johnklos 2y ago
  Let's see... Amazon has nothing to do with the Amazon basin, the river or anything else, aside from probably contributing to the destruction of all things Amazon. Google couldn't even spell googol correctly. Network Solutions is the opposite of real solutions. I suppose Windows is a good name - after all, what does it do? It shows windows decently well, and doesn't do anything else well at all. What else? ;)
  - _akhe 2y ago
    Amazon started as books, I think it was a reference to how many trees (pages) are in the Amazon. I like edgelord kinda names: Vercel, Heroku, Mistral, Lightning, Nvidia... I want my sentences to be like "...so I ejected the vector, ran re-drive, then exported the sequence to Bytestream and now the dyno is back online..." and less like "...so I pulled the blobs out of Peanut Butter & Jelly and migrated them over to Casserole and you know these days I just serve the dish cold to save on compute" :D It matters!
    - thimabi 2y ago
      > Amazon started as books, I think it was a reference to how many trees (pages) are in the Amazon. If that is true, I find it quite interesting that the trees in the Amazon are as much different as possible from the kind of trees used to make paper :)
- breadwinner 2y ago
  Ditto. The name sounds whimsical and unprofessional, and I don't want to store my serious domain names in a "pork bun".
callwhendone 2y ago
Contrary to others here, I am not a fan of Porkbun. Yes, it has everything you need and yes, it is cheap. But the website is sub-usable way more often than it should be. I started using Porkbun because it was so cheap and I've found myself going back to IWantMyName.com. It's more expensive but I think I get a better experience and service.
_lvbh 2y ago
They are way too ban-happy for my taste. Similar to Hetzner, they won’t let me sign up because I use privacy.com for my card
luckman212 2y ago
Does Porkbun have a good API?

rafram 2y ago

Porkbun is great. Never had an issue with them. Often one of the cheapest options, too.

abound 2y ago

I also went to Porkbun (and recommend it, they're great), though in migrating ~30 domains, I must have found 10 different ways to accidentally cause outages: - Not turning off DNSSEC before migrating - Moving the domain with no prep work (Google Domains nameservers stop resolving as soon as the migration is complete) - Starting the migration without updating nameservers (starting a transfer locks them on Google Domains) These are all of course 100% my fault (and I should have read the "External Domains" docs better), but it was surprisingly tricky to get right.

sohamgovande 2y ago

+1 for PorkBun. Been using them for 4 years. Cheap prices, great support, fully reliable. What more can I ask for.

temp0826 2y ago

I really want to move my domains (off of Gandi since the ownership change) to porkbun. Unfortunately they don't support a tld of one of my domains (.st) and I really don't want to have my domains managed at multiple places.

threecheese 2y ago
Must be their business model! Same issue here (diff tld).

_akhe 2y ago

How shallow am I if I just don't like the name "Porkbun"? It's the main reason I never used GoDaddy back in the day, simply didn't want to see or think of that word, just didn't like it lol. Funny that it's the only reason I was never their customer as there was a time their cPanel experience was slightly less bad than the others. So yeah I'll never use Porkbun and my only shallow reason is their awful brand name.

johnklos 2y ago
Let's see... Amazon has nothing to do with the Amazon basin, the river or anything else, aside from probably contributing to the destruction of all things Amazon. Google couldn't even spell googol correctly. Network Solutions is the opposite of real solutions. I suppose Windows is a good name - after all, what does it do? It shows windows decently well, and doesn't do anything else well at all. What else? ;)
- _akhe 2y ago
  Amazon started as books, I think it was a reference to how many trees (pages) are in the Amazon. I like edgelord kinda names: Vercel, Heroku, Mistral, Lightning, Nvidia... I want my sentences to be like "...so I ejected the vector, ran re-drive, then exported the sequence to Bytestream and now the dyno is back online..." and less like "...so I pulled the blobs out of Peanut Butter & Jelly and migrated them over to Casserole and you know these days I just serve the dish cold to save on compute" :D It matters!
  - thimabi 2y ago
    > Amazon started as books, I think it was a reference to how many trees (pages) are in the Amazon. If that is true, I find it quite interesting that the trees in the Amazon are as much different as possible from the kind of trees used to make paper :)
breadwinner 2y ago
Ditto. The name sounds whimsical and unprofessional, and I don't want to store my serious domain names in a "pork bun".

callwhendone 2y ago

Contrary to others here, I am not a fan of Porkbun. Yes, it has everything you need and yes, it is cheap. But the website is sub-usable way more often than it should be. I started using Porkbun because it was so cheap and I've found myself going back to IWantMyName.com. It's more expensive but I think I get a better experience and service.

_lvbh 2y ago

They are way too ban-happy for my taste. Similar to Hetzner, they won’t let me sign up because I use privacy.com for my card

luckman212 2y ago

Does Porkbun have a good API?