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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

by _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".
Esus 2y ago
Same here, I feel stupid not to, but I just can't see a clients trust going up if I start by saying "Ok, let's go to GoDaddy/Porkbun and purchase your business domain" Namecheap is marginally better, wish cheap wasn't in the title but I haven't had any issues with them over the years.
jdougan 2y ago
How about if they were named "Baozi"?
tweetle_beetle 2y ago
They have a link covering this in their footer - "Don't like our name?" https://porkbun.com/single-tear.html https://porkbun.com/single-tear.html

by _akhe 2y ago

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".

Esus 2y ago

Same here, I feel stupid not to, but I just can't see a clients trust going up if I start by saying "Ok, let's go to GoDaddy/Porkbun and purchase your business domain" Namecheap is marginally better, wish cheap wasn't in the title but I haven't had any issues with them over the years.

jdougan 2y ago

How about if they were named "Baozi"?

tweetle_beetle 2y ago

They have a link covering this in their footer - "Don't like our name?" https://porkbun.com/single-tear.html https://porkbun.com/single-tear.html