Porkbun
Near-cost pricing with free privacy, SSL and forwarding, and a clean exit.
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Porkbun brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What Porkbun is
Porkbun is run by Top Level Design, the registry operator behind .design, .ink and .wiki, which is part of why its pricing sits unusually close to wholesale. Free WHOIS privacy, free SSL, free email forwarding and one-click DNSSEC are standard rather than upsells. The interface is idiosyncratic and the brand is deliberately silly, but the transfer-out path is one of the cleanest in the category.
Recent changes
- 2025-09-01Verisign takes another permitted .com increase
Verisign applied one of its contractually permitted annual .com wholesale increases. At-cost registrars such as Cloudflare passed it through within days and their retail prices moved in lockstep. The retail tier mostly absorbed it into a larger scheduled rise, which is why the gap between the cheap and expensive registrars widened in dollars while narrowing in percentage terms.
- 2025-03-01Migrated Google Domains customers hit standard Squarespace pricing
The Google Domains book moved to Squarespace across 2023–24 at grandfathered rates. By early 2025 most of those registrations had renewed at Squarespace's standard flat pricing, which on a .com is roughly double what Google charged. Squarespace did not raise prices so much as stop honouring an acquired price list, and it drove a visible wave of transfers to Cloudflare and Porkbun.