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Porkbun
Porkbun is an amazingly awesome ICANN accredited domain name registrar based out of the Pacific Northwest. We're different, we're easy, and we're affordable. Use us, you won't be sorry.
Where it stands
3.6 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.1 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.4 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
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Measured signals
4.1 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Porkbun's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 509 ms.
- Security5 / 55 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
- Privacy3 / 53 third-party tracking services found: Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight.
- Transparency3 / 5Links a privacy policy; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
3.4 / 5 · 14 commenters71% of the 14 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Porkbun; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“I have been quite happy with Porkbun. But I also was aware of Proton’s CEO and Proton the company’s vocal far right endorsements which didn’t matter much as I had written Proton off multiple times even before that for…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“This is troubling because I also left namecheap for porkbun some years ago. While porkbun is good I am willing to move my 50+ domains to a worthy alternative when the time comes, however for now I’m going to wait and see…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“This is very dissapointing as I switched to porkbun recently to avoid using anything the monopoly Crazy Domains (Dreamscape) owns. "or anonymize it" means they would never opt to delete it and never will”
Read in the thread - Critical
“It makes me seriously question where Porkbun stands. It's also really bad timing, given that Porkbun's website at the time of writing appears to have been hacked, and is serving an invalid certificate.”
Read in the thread
Threads: Porkbun partners with Proton (2025, 94 comments) · Porkbun sells out – Starts requiring Age ID despite no legal requirement (2026, 21 comments)
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