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That's not an advertisement - I simply Googled popular registrars. But it is an indictment of Namecheap. They are going the way of GoDaddy. Please move away from them immediately. They are shifting to short-term strategies (high prices, immoral data practices, etc).", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Namecheap", "story": "Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked"}, {"id": 784469329, "item_id": 49029333, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029333", "by": "jacobgkau", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "now Porkbun's got them beat on everything I use", "excerpt": "I stopped trusting Namecheap when they shunted all Russian users due to the Ukraine war. While it wasn't against ICANN regulations (since they did facilitate transfers out), it seemed against the spirit to me for them to do that to individual people and small businesses who weren't legally sanctioned. 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Have become a recent convert to Porkbun after Godaddy blew a renewal (on a TLD Pair doesn\u2019t support).", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you use?"}, {"id": 802319872, "item_id": 50144992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144992", "by": "harrisoned", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend them a lot.", "excerpt": "I moved my domains to Porkbun some years ago when Google sold their domain stuff to Squarespace. Absolutely no headaches, and the one time i got double-charged after an API error during checkout, it was solved within 15 minutes with a human. I recommend them a lot.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Google Domains", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}, {"id": 768615888, "item_id": 48038493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038493", "by": "lugao", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server.", "excerpt": "I recently tried buying a domain in cloudflare, they refused the payment -- even using my account which I use actively for years -- tried to pay with paypal, no luck. Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server. Maybe they should fix the regular flow before automating it with agents?", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"}]}, {"text": " citing lower prices, quick checkout and fast human support.", "cites": [{"id": 754264864, "item_id": 47141554, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141554", "by": "not_your_vase", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to Porkbun, and now I pay half", "excerpt": "Can't talk about wholesale mobile network capacity pricing, but what you experienced is quite rampant with pretty much all services. They count on you to be too lazy to look up the information, and too lazy to actually do the switch. (And it works, with vast majority of the people) I had the same with my ISP - currently I pay about $60 for 10 Gbps connection. Before I switched, I paid about $130 for 200 Mbps, years a", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "GoDaddy", "story": "I got my phone bill down to $6.25/month after years of overpaying"}, {"id": 784469329, "item_id": 49029333, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029333", "by": "jacobgkau", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "now Porkbun's got them beat on everything I use", "excerpt": "I stopped trusting Namecheap when they shunted all Russian users due to the Ukraine war. While it wasn't against ICANN regulations (since they did facilitate transfers out), it seemed against the spirit to me for them to do that to individual people and small businesses who weren't legally sanctioned. I kept a couple of domains on them for a while simply because their prices for some exotic TLD's were significantly l", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Namecheap", "story": "Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked"}, {"id": 768615888, "item_id": 48038493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038493", "by": "lugao", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server.", "excerpt": "I recently tried buying a domain in cloudflare, they refused the payment -- even using my account which I use actively for years -- tried to pay with paypal, no luck. Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server. Maybe they should fix the regular flow before automating it with agents?", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"}, {"id": 802319872, "item_id": 50144992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144992", "by": "harrisoned", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend them a lot.", "excerpt": "I moved my domains to Porkbun some years ago when Google sold their domain stuff to Squarespace. Absolutely no headaches, and the one time i got double-charged after an API error during checkout, it was solved within 15 minutes with a human. I recommend them a lot.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Google Domains", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}]}, {"text": " The caveats raised are minor: it doesn't carry every TLD,", "cites": [{"id": 784474288, "item_id": 49029643, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029643", "by": "petecooper", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "+1 for Porkbun.", "excerpt": "+1 for Porkbun. I use tld-list.com to shop around for registrars when I need a TLD that Porkbun don't handle.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked"}]}, {"text": " and one user was double-charged after a checkout API error, which support fixed within 15 minutes.", "cites": [{"id": 802319872, "item_id": 50144992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144992", "by": "harrisoned", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend them a lot.", "excerpt": "I moved my domains to Porkbun some years ago when Google sold their domain stuff to Squarespace. Absolutely no headaches, and the one time i got double-charged after an API error during checkout, it was solved within 15 minutes with a human. 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I recommend them a lot.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Google Domains", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}, {"id": 802339744, "item_id": 50146234, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146234", "by": "hectormalot", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have good experiences with both porkbun and INWX as well.", "excerpt": "I have good experiences with both porkbun and INWX as well. INWX could indeed use a UX update. I used to use TransIP.nl and while they are still good, they\u2019ve gotten expensive over the last few years.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}, {"id": 739118896, "item_id": 46194931, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194931", "by": "Bender", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Some are on Porkbun and they are decent.", "excerpt": "Some of my domains were on eNom and they were decent despite a clunky old web interface, but then they moved those domains to a VM reseller without even telling me why. Some are on Porkbun and they are decent. I have some spread across many other registrars. They are all getting worse every 5 to 10 years. I suspect they will soon all be gone, replaced by investment companies that retain next to zero technical people.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you use?"}]}, {"label": "Lower prices", "summary": "Switchers say Porkbun costs less than GoDaddy and beats Namecheap on the TLDs they use.", "quotes": [{"id": 754264864, "item_id": 47141554, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141554", "by": "not_your_vase", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to Porkbun, and now I pay half", "excerpt": "Can't talk about wholesale mobile network capacity pricing, but what you experienced is quite rampant with pretty much all services. They count on you to be too lazy to look up the information, and too lazy to actually do the switch. (And it works, with vast majority of the people) I had the same with my ISP - currently I pay about $60 for 10 Gbps connection. Before I switched, I paid about $130 for 200 Mbps, years a", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "GoDaddy", "story": "I got my phone bill down to $6.25/month after years of overpaying"}, {"id": 784469329, "item_id": 49029333, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029333", "by": "jacobgkau", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "now Porkbun's got them beat on everything I use", "excerpt": "I stopped trusting Namecheap when they shunted all Russian users due to the Ukraine war. While it wasn't against ICANN regulations (since they did facilitate transfers out), it seemed against the spirit to me for them to do that to individual people and small businesses who weren't legally sanctioned. I kept a couple of domains on them for a while simply because their prices for some exotic TLD's were significantly l", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Namecheap", "story": "Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked"}]}, {"label": "TLD coverage", "summary": "Commenters use it for TLDs that other registrars don't support.", "quotes": [{"id": 753370595, "item_id": 47085662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662", "by": "Daegalus", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there are few registrars tht handle all the TLDs i have, nothing like Porkbun", "excerpt": "Great post, I did a similar switch mid last year. Hetzner was something I already used, so I just doubled down. I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw, but that was because I was having issues with Hetzner that day on their new instance page (was fixed the next day) I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins. If your origin ", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 739158865, "item_id": 46197429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197429", "by": "epc", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Have become a recent convert to Porkbun", "excerpt": "Most of my domains are at PairDomains (no nonsense UI, but also limited TLDs). Have become a recent convert to Porkbun after Godaddy blew a renewal (on a TLD Pair doesn\u2019t support).", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you use?"}]}, {"label": "Fast checkout", "summary": "One user bought a domain in five minutes after Cloudflare refused their payment.", "quotes": [{"id": 768615888, "item_id": 48038493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038493", "by": "lugao", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server.", "excerpt": "I recently tried buying a domain in cloudflare, they refused the payment -- even using my account which I use actively for years -- tried to pay with paypal, no luck. Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server. Maybe they should fix the regular flow before automating it with agents?", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "Cloudflare", "story": "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"}]}, {"label": "Human support", "summary": "A billing error was resolved by a human within 15 minutes.", "quotes": [{"id": 802319872, "item_id": 50144992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144992", "by": "harrisoned", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend them a lot.", "excerpt": "I moved my domains to Porkbun some years ago when Google sold their domain stuff to Squarespace. Absolutely no headaches, and the one time i got double-charged after an API error during checkout, it was solved within 15 minutes with a human. I recommend them a lot.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Google Domains", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}]}, {"label": "DNS API", "summary": "Its API works for DNS-based certificate validation with Caddy.", "quotes": [{"id": 793867042, "item_id": 49616690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616690", "by": "unshavedyak", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Porkbun's API", "excerpt": "> There is a Caddy extension for doing DNS based validation, but that puts you back to needing a DNS provider with an API. Yea, for clarity this is what i was describing. I use Porkbun's API and the Caddy instance isn't reachable from the internet, only local and over tailscale", "context": "", "use_case": "DNS validation API", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Missing TLDs", "summary": "Porkbun doesn't handle every TLD, so some users shop around elsewhere.", "quotes": [{"id": 784474288, "item_id": 49029643, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029643", "by": "petecooper", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "+1 for Porkbun.", "excerpt": "+1 for Porkbun. 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INWX could indeed use a UX update. I used to use TransIP.nl and while they are still good, they\u2019ve gotten expensive over the last few years.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"}, {"id": 802319872, "item_id": 50144992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50144992", "by": "harrisoned", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend them a lot.", "excerpt": "I moved my domains to Porkbun some years ago when Google sold their domain stuff to Squarespace. Absolutely no headaches, and the one time i got double-charged after an API error during checkout, it was solved within 15 minutes with a human. 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I use tld-list.com to shop around for registrars when I need a TLD that Porkbun don't handle.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked"}, {"id": 784469329, "item_id": 49029333, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029333", "by": "jacobgkau", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "now Porkbun's got them beat on everything I use", "excerpt": "I stopped trusting Namecheap when they shunted all Russian users due to the Ukraine war. While it wasn't against ICANN regulations (since they did facilitate transfers out), it seemed against the spirit to me for them to do that to individual people and small businesses who weren't legally sanctioned. I kept a couple of domains on them for a while simply because their prices for some exotic TLD's were significantly l", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Namecheap", "story": "Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked"}, {"id": 784454832, "item_id": 49028427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028427", "by": "happytoexplain", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just a few weeks ago I moved from Namecheap to Porkbun.", "excerpt": "Just a few weeks ago I moved from Namecheap to Porkbun. That's not an advertisement - I simply Googled popular registrars. But it is an indictment of Namecheap. They are going the way of GoDaddy. Please move away from them immediately. They are shifting to short-term strategies (high prices, immoral data practices, etc).", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "Namecheap", "story": "Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked"}, {"id": 768615888, "item_id": 48038493, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038493", "by": "lugao", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server.", "excerpt": "I recently tried buying a domain in cloudflare, they refused the payment -- even using my account which I use actively for years -- tried to pay with paypal, no luck. Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server. 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Before I switched, I paid about $130 for 200 Mbps, years a", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "GoDaddy", "story": "I got my phone bill down to $6.25/month after years of overpaying"}, {"id": 753370595, "item_id": 47085662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085662", "by": "Daegalus", "date": "2026-02-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there are few registrars tht handle all the TLDs i have, nothing like Porkbun", "excerpt": "Great post, I did a similar switch mid last year. Hetzner was something I already used, so I just doubled down. I have a single OVH instance where I ma playing with Openclaw, but that was because I was having issues with Hetzner that day on their new instance page (was fixed the next day) I use Bunny for my CDN, I just wish they have the capabilityt to route IPv4 and IPv6 traffic to IPv6 only origins. If your origin ", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registrar", "switched_from": "", "story": "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"}, {"id": 739158865, "item_id": 46197429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197429", "by": "epc", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Have become a recent convert to Porkbun", "excerpt": "Most of my domains are at PairDomains (no nonsense UI, but also limited TLDs). Have become a recent convert to Porkbun after Godaddy blew a renewal (on a TLD Pair doesn\u2019t support).", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you use?"}, {"id": 739118896, "item_id": 46194931, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194931", "by": "Bender", "date": "2025-12-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Some are on Porkbun and they are decent.", "excerpt": "Some of my domains were on eNom and they were decent despite a clunky old web interface, but then they moved those domains to a VM reseller without even telling me why. Some are on Porkbun and they are decent. I have some spread across many other registrars. They are all getting worse every 5 to 10 years. I suspect they will soon all be gone, replaced by investment companies that retain next to zero technical people.", "context": "", "use_case": "domain registration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which domain name registrar do you use?"}]}