Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by petecooper | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

petecooper

Porkbun pricing:

.com (9.73USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/com

.xyz (9.92USD): https://porkbun.com/tld/xyz

View on HN

Also increasing due to Verisign:

"We expect our pricing to change from $9.73 to around $10.37 on September 1, so don't wait to lock in our low rate today!"

Did they react to the announcement yet and said it'll stay that way? Otherwise that's not very useful so soon after the announcement.

It was more a data point for compare & contrast, to be fair. I'm a Porkbun user but not blinkered to other registrars.

I use porkbun for 10 domains now for the last 5 years. They are great. Highly recommend

Wow. What is porkbun and how is it so much cheaper? Is this worth transferring over?

> how is it so much cheaper

Porkbun doesn't make money when you buy a domain name, but they may make money when you do not renew it:

> At about 21 days into the Auto-Renew Grace Period, the expired domain will be submitted to third-party auction services.

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/37-what-happens-after-a-domai...

Other registrars, like GoDaddy, do this too.

Domains are a loss leader product for everyone in the internet/hosting industry. Porkbun’s goal is to get you to buy secondary products.

This is true, but Porkbun couldn't be further from the big registrars like GoDaddy in their approach. It is actually difficult to buy a domain on GoDaddy for most people without getting sucked in to buying extras, whereas Porkbun barely even suggests extras at any point since I've been a user, and what are extras other places are offered for free.

Pretty much. Everyone wants to upsell you on their hosting, page creation and blogging tools where they have ridiculous margins. How much disk space and bandwidth do you think a random small business or Jane Rando's recipe blog actually use vs. what they're being charged for? Not to mention things like "brand protection" where they'll do you a solid and buy/squat your domain on the .xxx and .sucks tlds for extra $$ each month.

I've been slowly migrating all of my domains over and have been very happy with them. Lower prices, faster website, almost ridiculously clean interface. Even has passkey support.

FWIW, I like their pricing and overall marketing approach and transferred my domains over a few months ago. Great experience overall.

For now - but surely they too will increase as part of this. What are the rates after the increase which will impact every registry?

Every registrar*

Registry is like verisign owning .com

Registrar is all of the people who sell you .com domains, by having a contract with the registry.

Funnily I even looked up this distinction before writing because I very much know of the difference (see my comment history) but wrote exactly the wrong one. Oh well. Yes I meant registrar, not the TLD registry.

Cloudflare upcoming price changes -- yes, they like other registrars will be affected.

The announcement page might be behind a login, couldn't seem to link it directly

  .com    $9.15 -> $9.77
  .xyz    $9.33 -> $10.18
  .org    $10.11 (today's price... not affected?)
  .net    $10.10 (today's price... not affected?)

Just switched to porkburn for a bunch of domains after google sold to squarespace, works great.

Cloudflare pricing:

.com (9.15)

.net (9.95)

.org (10.11)

.xyz (9.33)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com