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Porkbun
What is Porkbun?
Porkbun is a low-cost domain registrar from the United States, founded in 2014. It has gained popularity for its user-friendly platform, transparent pricing, and creative branding. The company was founded by Ray King.
Andrew Merriam is the COO of Porkbun.
Porkbun positionning
Porkbun positions itself as a retail domain registrar built around three ideas: low total cost (especially renewals), a simple control panel, and “included by default” features that many registrars sell as add-ons. Its tone is playful, but the product promise is practical: register and renew domains without surprise fees and without a heavy upsell funnel.
What it highlights most is value-for-money on mainstream DNS domains, with free basics bundled in: WHOIS privacy when available for the TLD, free SSL certificates for supported setups, and common utilities like forwarding and DNS management. Support is positioned as human and reachable (email and chat), aimed at people who manage many domains and want frictionless operations.
Web3 domains
Porkbun is not positioned as a “Web3-first” shop. It sells standard DNS extensions, and it also lists some adjacent items, like Handshake names and a few DNS TLDs marketed with Web3 features by their registries.
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