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Porkbun are an amazing domain registrar, but a terrible host, as hosting is literally just an addon/upsell for them, their support is very poor, as they just don't have that many hosting experts in the wings. Use registrars for domain registration, and hosting companies for web hosting. For webhosts, take a look at the hosts in the sidebar, KnownHost are great, and you can't go wrong with them. Answer from andercode on reddit.com

reddit.com › r/webdev › does anyone here have a domain at porkbun? is it worth buying there, or will i get tricked like i did with namecheap? t.t

r/webdev on Reddit: Does anyone here have a domain at Porkbun? Is it worth buying there, or will I get tricked like I did with Namecheap? T.T

November 11, 2024 -

So, I had a frustrating experience with Namecheap. They simply tripled the renewal price of my .com domain. I thought about transferring the domain and buying another one I need at Porkbun, but do they also have this kind of trick? Will they suddenly raise the price 3, 4, or 10 times? In my case, the price tripled in 1 year. Or is it better to just go with Cloudflare?

If anyone has experience with these domain registration sites, please clear this doubt for me.

Cloudflare makes no profit on their domain registration at this juncture. They simply charge you what it costs to renew. So as long as they are content to have that service be a loss-leader to get people using their other products, it's a good deal. That said, enshittification comes for us all. But for now, cloudflare is a good choice

reddit.com › r/webhosting › what about porkbun for hosting?

r/webhosting on Reddit: what about porkbun for hosting?

January 23, 2024 -

After long consideration and comparison, I don't need the speed the bigger guys like KnownHost could give me, so I'm gonna start with porkbun. The only downside I can think of, hosting & name registration with the same company. I'm not worried about them holding my domain names hostage. Right?

Porkbun are an amazing domain registrar, but a terrible host, as hosting is literally just an addon/upsell for them, their support is very poor, as they just don't have that many hosting experts in the wings. Use registrars for domain registration, and hosting companies for web hosting. For webhosts, take a look at the hosts in the sidebar, KnownHost are great, and you can't go wrong with them.

I’m not sure about hosting, but I’ve had many domains with them for years and as a registrar they’ve been excellent - truly top notch. I have no affiliation with them, and to be honest I initially gave them a try just because of the strange name, and found that they are truly different as they say on their website. Everyone’s experience is their own, but I don’t think you will be disappointed.

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reddit.com › r/webdev › cloudflare vs porkbun vs namecheap: an opinion, if it helps

r/webdev on Reddit: Cloudflare vs Porkbun vs Namecheap: An opinion, if it helps

April 16, 2024 -

Hey All - My Google Domains started getting moved over to Squarespace this past week, and it's been a less than stellar experience. Not only do I not to control what account these domains end up in, managing domains in Squarespace is not what I'd call straight forward.

As a result, I went to the Interwebs and Reddit to see what was recommended. The same 3 kept getting recommended: Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap

The trend on Namecheap - which I used a decade ago - is that it is no longer actually cheap, with constant price hikes & advertisements, so I ruled them out and decided to split my domains between Cloudflare & Porkbun, to see how the experience was. Worst case, I move the domains again in 60 days, if one is really horrible (yes, I would need to pay the cost to extend one more year).

Since there have been a few threads on this topic, I figured I'd share where I fell out - with details, in case it helps you make your decision:

Cloudflare
- Pros
  - Has every enterprise level feature & customization you could want, within policy (see below), although many of these are upsells
  - The transfer process is done in a way where it's very hard to screw up the DNS settings post-transfer (e.g. you need to move the NS over before you can initiate transfer)
  - Cheapest domains out there
  - Been around for a very long time, and relies on other revenue, so not likely to go out of business
- Cons
  - The interface is very "heavy"; It's clearly built for Enterprises, not prosumers, and so it can take a bit of searching to find the thing you want
  - It feels like Cloudflare takes positions on the "right" way to do things, and for those things, there is no workaround. Examples include:
  - Not all ccTLDs supported yet (but the ~200 they cover were all I needed)
Porkbun
- Pros
  - Simple & straightforward, albeit quirky, interface
  - You can pretty much do whatever you want, including domain masking & email forwarding without pre-approval (this could also be abused)
  - Probably the 2nd cheapest domains
  - Other redditors have commented that their customer service is fast & friendly
  - I didn't count but their supported domain list seems much longer than CloudFlare's
- Cons
  - Been around as long as Google Domains, so unclear if this business model is sustainable
  - UI is not the prettiest, or the best laid out, but it's so simple that's it's pretty easy to figure out
  - Because you can do anything you want, you could transfer your domain and lose all your previous settings, which would mean you would need to figure out what those records would need to be/reverify your domain

A good example of the experience between these two is SSL.

Cloudflare: Since you had to have CF NS in order to transfer, CF automatically enables SSL (great!). To find that they did this, you would go to your domain, click on the SSL section, and see in the Overview that you have "Flexible" SSL on by default vs Full vs Full (strict) ... or off. Now they use diagrams to explain what each of these is, but you need to dig to understand what the difference is here vs a standard LetsEncrypt cert on a server. It turns out LE certs are equivalent to "full" (to my best understanding) and that "flexible" means just the connection between browser and CF is encrypted. So you can go and switch it to full ... for every domain you have.
Porkbun: They have a simple listing of your domains, where you click details. One section is "SSL". If you click the small edit button, it will tell you that they can only generate SSL for you if you use their NameServers, and they give you a single click button to make the switch. You push the button, they update, and tell you that a cert is being generated using LetsEncrypt. You need to check back to see status switch from "Nothing yet" to "Have certificate" in green. This takes 10-20 minutes. You could do this rapidly for all domains, as they are all listed in a flat list. If you switched to their NameServers during transfer, this step is automatically done.

For me, while Porkbun is a bit fast and loose (and doesn't have as many options as Cloudflare), it's been a more enjoyable experience. I also didn't like that Cloudflare prohibits me from masking, and I'm worried about what else they will prevent me from doing in the future. While I understand some of these settings can be abused, they also can allow me to provide a more pleasant experience for simple things, like not showing an "ugly" URL.

If I was running an enterprise site, where I needed to tweak the hell out of everything to ensure optimal load times, while fending off DOS attacks, and needed workers to handle different end points with different situations, Cloudflare would be a great fit. I'm not doing that though.

I'll probably let these domains sit on both of these registrars for another 6 months to see if anything really breaks (I still have to see how the Sites redirects land). If something major pops up, I'll update the post.

I hope someone finds this helpful. :)

UPDATE (2024.07): I'm all in on Porkbun. Cloudflare made basic changes complicated and Porkbun support is absolutely phenomenal.

I still haven't had any issues with namecheap. Been using them for over a decade.

My only issue with PorkBun is the brand name itself. I don't really like to share it with my clients. It doesn't seem professional at all (both the name, the logo and the website filled with pink pigs everywhere). I totally get the fun vibe but sometimes it's not really a "plus" side, when sharing it it with a client.

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reddit.com › r/domains › where to get a domain? (namecheap, porkbun or hover?)

r/Domains on Reddit: Where to get a domain? (Namecheap, porkbun or hover?)

February 22, 2025 -

I've been struggling to decide between namecheap, porkbun and hover as a domain registrar. I'm setting up a shopify store for e-commerce. There are so many pros and cons, hundreds of YouTube videos, most of which are repeating the identical script they probably found from chat GPT. And my head is genuinely tarting to physically hurt. I'm so overwhelmed.

Which one should I go for. I don't know much about web development at all. But from what I've heard this is what I need.

SSL certificates - the thing that makes my website safe and not look sketchy I guess??
Custom email hosting - so I can have my own custom email @ which is very professional and very cool.
Email forwarding so may all goes to my personal email?? (I guess this is good but I don't really know if I want that. I'd rather just log into my business email every time I want to respond to customers) - this just seems like it would inconvenience me and getting my way.
Domain forwarding could be very useful, so even if someone types the wrong domain, they would still end up on my website. (But not a necessity I suppose idk)
I barely even know what a sub domain is, but I think I need this. (Yes I will continue researching these things)
DNS management - the most important of all I reckon. From what I've learnt this is the thing that ensures that there are no connectivity issues. When people type in my website name they actually end up on my site + with no slow loading time etc)

The lower the price the better, but not if it means I'm going to have a headache running this business. I see the extra prices as a way of delegating the hard work to somebody who isn't me. You're very important for someone running their first business on their own.

I tried asking chat GPT, I did it for hours actually. But it kept giving me false info, I was incredibly biased for some strange reason, telling me the price per month for certain companies but the price per year for other companies. When I calculated the numbers they were all wrong. And even I barely know anything I had to correct it, it would agree and explain again, still getting things wrong. So I'm overwhelmed and coming to Reddit for help.

I won't get it from shopify in case I feel like I need to transfer it later. I'd rather own the domain individually, so shopify won't be an option.

Thank you in advance.

I’ve used Namecheap before. It’s a good service, but their prices for renewals are more expensive than Porkbun, which is one of the main reasons I moved all my domains to Porkbun.

I've been struggling to decide between namecheap, porkbun and hover as a domain registrar. Porkbun is head and shoulders above the other ones. SSL certificates - the thing that makes my website safe and not look sketchy I guess?? Porkbun offers free SSL, but if you use Cloudflare for DNS (which you should) you'll get it through them. Custom email hosting - so I can have my own custom email @ which is very professional and very cool. Porkbun offers email forwarding, which you could use. But you could just set up a free mailbox at Zoho. Email forwarding so may all goes to my personal email?? (I guess this is good but I don't really know if I want that. I'd rather just log into my business email every time I want to respond to customers) - this just seems like it would inconvenience me and getting my way. Then use Zoho. No need to pay for an email server. Domain forwarding could be very useful, so even if someone types the wrong domain, they would still end up on my website. (But not a necessity I suppose idk) Porkbun offers it, but if you set up your DNS with Cloudflare (which is free) you can do url forwarding. Cloudflare does it better though since you can use wildcard url forwarding (which has benefits over regular url forwarding). I barely even know what a sub domain is, but I think I need this. (Yes I will continue researching these things) example.com = root domain www.example.com , my.example.com, panel.example.com = subdomains All registrars offer this. DNS management - the most important of all I reckon. From what I've learnt this is the thing that ensures that there are no connectivity issues. When people type in my website name they actually end up on my site + with no slow loading time etc) Use Coudflare for DNS. Porkbun for your registrar, Cloudflare for your DNS, and WebHostMost for hosting. Thank me later.

reddit.com › r/domains › why porkbun is porkbun?

r/Domains on Reddit: Why Porkbun is Porkbun?

January 30, 2025 -

It's so unique. I'm curious to know why the Porkbun registrar names their brand like this, I mean to say..Neamcheap(cheap pricing). Hostinger(hosting+domain) all have some little relevance..but porkbun is out of the box. Is there any story with Pig, pork with the company...and all characters on the website are pig images? Is there in deep meaning for giving this name? Is there anyone who has an idea about it?

GoDaddy is the weirdest for me, sounds like a porn site.

Well well, looks like it's story time! Gather 'round and let me tell you about how Porkbun became Porkbun. I think it can be best described as a well orchestrated fluke. Back in 2014 our parent company, Top Level Design LLC, was just an ICANN accredited registry. We were set to operate the TLDs .design, .wiki, .ink and eventually .gay and .tattoo as well. Registries cannot sell ICANN governed TLDs directly to consumers and have to go through ICANN accredited registrars to hawk their wares. It's not exactly easy as a registry to work with registrars to market and sell your TLDs; priorities don't always align, they usually move too slow, they don't have the right messaging you're looking for, etc. So, we decided to start our own registrar mainly so that we could more easily sell our domains using the TLDs we own. This is what ICANN calls vertical integration, when the same company owns both a registry and registrar. There are a lot of rules regarding separation and how a vertically integrated registry / registrar can operate, mostly around fair access to registry services and promotional pricing, but it would allow us to market our TLDs direct to consumer in a way we wanted. In the very early days the name of the registrar really wasn't very important to us, our strategy was to create branded sites on top of the registrar backend and market directly to industry organizations and customers in very niche markets. Our main focus was .design so think organizations like AIGA, IDSA, etc. We would also end up creating generic sites like get.design, get.ink, get.wiki, etc. But, our registrar needed an actual name and so we sat around and looked at what domains we already had in our possession. Our CEO had a collection of decent domain names and there were a few that seemed brandable and fun. I think we narrowed it down to porkbun.com and flyware.com (groan), by the grace of all that is holy and good porkbun.com won and Porkbun LLC was officially formed. As we registered more and more domains and our customer base grew there started to be a demand for folks to be able to have their other domains with us as well. We started onboarding with other registries like Verisign, Identity Digital (then Donuts), PIR, etc and we were starting to become a more generic registrar instead of one dedicated only to the registration of our own TLDs. We started heavily branding Porkbun around pigs, at first real pigs and then the cute cartoon pigs we all know and love (I'm projecting and assuming everyone loves them as much as myself). Eventually we consolidated everything on porkbun.com and shut down the niche sites. Mostly due to our low pricing, ease of use, and no nonsense approach Porkbun started gathering a following of loyal customers and was growing rapidly, we could tell we were on to something and although there was some early talk about rebranding we held strong and doubled down on what we believe is a fun memorable brand. We eventually sold all of our TLDs to GoDaddy in 2021 and 2023 and ever since have been a dedicated domain name registrar hellbent on sticking to our roots. It's a tough and competitive industry but we still believe that having the name Porkbun has helped us grow. It lets us have fun with the brand in a space that is mostly stale and boring and I think most can tell by the little jokes on our site, the puns in our marketing, and our overall quirky nature that the folks running this thing don't particularly like stale and boring 😂 Edit: The other option wasn't registerfly.com it was flyware.com.

reddit.com › r/domains › move to porkbun or stay on namecheap?

r/Domains on Reddit: Move to Porkbun or stay on Namecheap?

June 25, 2024 -

I've heard great things and horror stories from Porkbun and I'm wondering if it's worth biting the bullet. I'm not interested in doing ID verification but that's the main downside I'm seeing. I don't own many domains (I use every domain I own for personal projects) so I would only save ~$10 a year. If anyone could give some advice/suggestions that would be much appreciated. Thanks!

From my limited research, porkbun is the way to go. I’m transferring all of my domains to porkbun this week (from Godaddy, bye and good riddance)

Every domain registrar has good and horror stories. why don't you want to do ID verification?

reddit.com › r/domains › porkbun and cloudflare review. i really like them!

r/Domains on Reddit: Porkbun and Cloudflare Review. I really like them!

April 14, 2025 -

Hey guys just wanted to get the communities consensus on Porkbun vs Cloudflare?

EDIT: Afer reading the stories from user billhartzer of Cloudflare domains getting hacked (see comments below), I'll be sticking with Porkbun for the time being.

I've been using Porkbun them for the past 5 years and have only had good experiences with them but am interested to hear your experience vs Cloudflare?

It looks like Cloudflare has really good domain rates as .com renewals are $10.45/yr at the time of writing this. Porkbun renewal rates for .com domains are currently $11.06/yr.

In total I've been purchasing my domains with Porkbun then for web hosting I've been using Cloudways along with WordPress to build my websites as I believe it's the best web hosting provider.

If you're looking to do this same this tutorial will walk you through the process.

Anyways, in the past I used to use Namecheap but ever since they've increased their prices I've stayed away from them as they've significantly increased their domain rates and most definitely NOT cheap.

Overall across the board, it appears domain registrars have increased their pricing, even just a few years ago you could get a .com domain with Porkbun for ~$9/yr but that has since changed to ~11/yr.

This still wildly beats GoDaddy and Namecheap, their .com renewal rates are $22/yr and Namecheaps are $17/yr.

I always tell people to stay away from GoDaddy. Namecheap isn't bad but they're just more expensive. Most people haven't heard of Porkbun and find the brand amusing (I love it tbh). Cloudflare on the other hand is more well known especially amongst the tech literate crowd. I'm interested to hear your guys' thoughts on Cloudflare since I haven't used them in particular.

Thoughts?

I would stick with porkbun. I love the Cloudflare for dns and CDN services, but would never use them for a domain registrar. At least not for any domain that I care about. I run a stolen domain name recovery service and I’ve had to help clients recover way too many stolen domain names from Cloudflare. And I’m not a big fan of the fact that in order to submit a support ticket, like when your domain is stolen, you must pay them $350 or more. You have to be an enterprise customer at $350 or more per month in order to submit a ticket.

Keep in mind GoDaddy is a has been and is one of the worse mistakes people make.. They think they will grow into the account features when in fact if and when you grow, you grow out of it. Cloudflare is fantastic but keep in mind you're the product and you have to use it understanding that. You're consenting to your data being used for overall security and other research which helps the community. I'm okay with that. Porkbun is great but they have a model of charging very little above their rate and make the money due to volume and low fees. Cloudflare has a model of making no money off of registrar fees. Keeping it real, Cloudflare has to be one of the best if not the best technical product that exist which is completely free. This is especially true when you embrace some of the absolutely free networking features such as custom redirects. Maybe I have an extreme advantage and bias because of my technical background, and I'm not claiming to be a Cloudflare expert. The network and domain features available via Cloudflare are simply insane! If you want to explore redirects and other custom things you really would be hard pressed to find a solution that does it faster or better than Cloudflare unless you spend a lot of money and have a network guru handy Cloudflare is maybe not the best option if you're looking to offload the domain. Using them for DNS, great! But the might not be the best option for domains you want to offload. Having said all that I use Cloudflare for my register on almost all domains that allow me to. I've got enough domains that even a dollar savings per domain a year is significant for me. But Porkbun is certainly my go to for TLD that Cloudflare does not support

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reddit.com › r/domains › porkbun review. it's really good!

r/Domains on Reddit: Porkbun review. It's really good!

March 22, 2022 - This subreddit is for discussing all things domains. ... Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters. Share ... Porkbun's founder is one of big player in this industry. And yes, like any business they are after for profit. They also own .design tld (correct me if I wrong).

reddit.com › r/protonmail › porkbun for custom email domain?

r/ProtonMail on Reddit: Porkbun for custom email domain?

June 30, 2024 -

I'm looking at getting a paid ProtonMail account with a custom domain, and I'm wondering if Porkbun would be OK for buying the domain. I checked some other registrars, but they were either more expensive or didn't have WHOIS privacy protection. Any reason(s) why I shouldn't use Porkbun? Thank you!

Porkbun is a reliable domain registrar

Cloudflare sells domains at zero markup over ICANN+TLD fees and provides whois privacy. Anyone selling cheaper will raise their rates at renewal to cover their losses.

reddit.com › r/domains › porkbun sucks, need alternative

r/Domains on Reddit: porkbun sucks, need alternative

January 14, 2025 -

Their DNS requires hours or days to update.

Every registrar I've used in the past updated in minutes.

Their services are less than useless to me if they won't hear complaints about how slow their dns is until 48 hours after the last update.

I'm looking for a registrar who won't interfere with my development work by sitting on my dns updates without good reason.

Anyone else abandon porkbun?

Where did you go?

Are you using Porkbun's DNS for managing records or are you modifying nameservers for a domain? Porkbun use Cloudflare for their DNS records which is one of the most reliable providers. I have hundreds of domains across dozens of TLDs with Porkbun and regularly manage the DNS and nameservers through Porkbun. The biggest issue I face is with nameservers because not all TLDs are created equal. For example, the .party TLD is janky and regularly stops working for some inexplicable reason. Porkbun's DNS system certainly isn't perfect but if you're regularly seeing hours or days for changes to be reflected it is almost certainly an issue at your end. If my changes take more than 60 seconds to be reflected, I'm wondering if there's an issue, I have never seen hours. How are you verifying the records are correctly set? Do you use a tool like whatsmydns.net or dig? Do you use your ISPs DNS for your local connection, or something like Cloudflare's or Google's? If you're unhappy with Porkbun's use of Cloudflare then you can switch to a separate DNS provider while keeping your domains with Porkbun. For my mission critical domains, I use Google Cloud's DNS or you could use Cloudflare directly. I like Porkbun but given they're a domain registrar, not a DNS company, I much prefer to use a dedicated DNS service when DNS is important. Cloudflare also offer domain registration at cost, although they have a limited number of TLDs: if I didn't rely on quirky TLDs then I'd use Cloudflare for my domain registration.

Porkbun uses Cloudflare's DNS. Every time I've made changes to my DNS records at Porkbun, it took effect within minutes.

reddit.com › r/domains › porkbun suddenly marked one of my domains as premium and is charging the premium renewal

r/Domains on Reddit: Porkbun suddenly marked one of my domains as premium and is charging the premium renewal

September 27, 2024 -

I am not sure if this is common, but this feels scammy. I started using Porkbun last year and my domains are getting to renewals this year. They did auto-renew a few domains at 3x the registration price (understandable), now one of my domains have been marked as premium. I bought this for USD 32, and now I am being asked to pay over USD 1100 to renew.

I don't think that's fair and their support has not reached back to any emails I sent to them. What kind of business is this? I am seeing spaceship for transfer at USD 32, but I have been reading about their horror stories as well.

WWYD?

Edit:

Found a similar thread of this happening to someone else
- https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/1fkx954/forum_domain_suddenly_jumped_from_4_to_1200/

Some premium domain are set by the registry, not the registrar, so maybe check that first

Please email us if you haven't already, this is likely a mistake on the registry end. Assuming this is a ICANN gTLD, this isn't allowed per the ICANN RA according to our interpretation of it. Edit: I see now you mention you did reach out. I only see one email/ticket, looks like we responded 20 minutes after you sent it, maybe check your spam? If that doesn't sound correct, please PM me your email address or something so I can try and find it in our system.

reddit.com › r/webhosting › should i connect or transfer my porkbun domain to squarespace?

r/webhosting on Reddit: Should I connect or transfer my Porkbun domain to Squarespace?

March 29, 2025 -

Nervous newbie doing DIY website. Purchased my domain via Porkbun; their instructions say CONNECT the domain to Squarespace and Squarespace recommends TRANSFER, as does google search/AI. Not sure what to do! Thanking you more experienced folks in advance for your perspective!

We're your registrar, so feel free to take our advice with a grain of salt or dash of your favorite BBQ rub... If you just purchased the domain, you probably can't transfer anyway due to the ICANN mandated 60 day lock on new domain registrations. Thus, connecting or pointing the domain to SquareSpace may be the only option available. Transfering will make your life slightly simpler, but it will cost more, take more time to do, and will be a pain if you ever want to not use SquareSpace in the future. Keeping your domain with us means one more account to manage, but pointing a domain is relatively quick and painless , should resolve in a matter of minutes, and you'll save a little bit of money (about $9 a year if we're talking a .com). That and you can switch web hosts quickly if you ever end up not liking SquareSpace. If you do want to transfer out, here's the article for how to do so. We hope you stay, but if you do leave, we will shed a...

Like others have said, you don’t need to transfer (and honestly, I usually prefer to keep my domain names and the service those domains are using separate). Typically, SquarePants will have you add a series of DNS entries, and that’s how you “connect” the domain. Of course, they want you to outright transfer the domain to them so that they get more of your business, but it’ll work fine if you don’t.

reddit.com › r/domains › registrar: spaceship or porkbun? or other?

r/Domains on Reddit: REGISTRAR: spaceship or porkbun? or other?

August 22, 2024 -

looking to register a few TLDs, each for at least a few years for personal use. i’ve been using godaddy for a while and feel like i can get better deals on domain names elsewhere.

You can compare the prices on tld-list.com , Spaceship tends to be more competitive. Or use both for a name each, taking the best coupon each time.

I prefer Porkbun over Spaceship, but both are good. GoDaddy is terrible though, either one is going to be an upgrade.

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Porkbun vs Cloudflare : r/sysadmin

May 20, 2023 - With porkbun, you just specify your DNS servers if you don't want to use them. ... I used to use Google Domains, but since the news of them selling everything to Squarespace I've been moving my domains over to Porkbun.

reddit.com › r/webhosting › porkbun vs cloudflare for email domain

r/webhosting on Reddit: Porkbun vs Cloudflare for email domain

January 4, 2023 -

Hello,

I’m working on setting up email with Fastmail. I want to get a domain for it. I already own a domain with google domains that I don’t want to use. I’m considering Cloudflare and Porkbun after reading a lot of posts here.

I see that Cloudflare has all these subscription plans. I still can’t figure out if I need a subscription with them. I also do not see anything information about domain locking. Would you guys do -

Porkbun for domain with a Cloudflare free account to use them as the NS or
Cloudflare for both or
Cloudflare/Porkbun for domain and Fastmail’s NS?

I do like the fact that Porkbun has some customer support that I can reach out to. Haven’t found an easy way to reach Cloudflare. Your thoughts on this will be appreciated!

Thanks!

My recommendation would be Porkbun there included DNS hosting product is now actually run by Cloudflare. Cloudflare, also can be a good option if you know what you're doing you can do everything with them for free except for domain registration which is at cost. However you're reliant on community based support through their forum system and your domain name as long as it's registered with them needs to use Cloudflare name servers you cannot change this. Not an issue if you know how to manually control DNS.

When the price is cheap, you are the support. When the product is free, you are the product.

reddit.com › r/protonmail › how to set up custom domain if i get the domain from porkbun?

r/ProtonMail on Reddit: How to set up custom domain if I get the domain from Porkbun?

December 16, 2022 -

Do I just buy the domain then follow this guide?

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/189-how-to-configure-your-domain-for-protonmail-email

I saw some older threads where people say they use another service (I think a DNS?) in addition to Porkbun such as Cloudflare. That's why I'm a bit confused.

I have a domain at PorkBun and have had no problems whatsoever. Just follow the guide in the Proton Mail interface — adding/changing DNS records on PorkBun is incredibly straightforward. Edit: Aight, it seems your issue was resolved hours ago. My point still stands though

I have some vague memories Porkbun got a bit bad press in this subreddit. I don't recall the details, but most likely it was related to not being a reliable DNS registrar or service provider, or that their admin panel for DNS records back then lacked some features needed to set up custom domains on Proton Mail. Whether this is true or still holds water, I don't know. Since you already have your domains there, give it a shot at least. I've read quickly through their guide ... and it looks reasonable to me. Just ensure you set up all the MX records (there are 2 of them) and all the CNAME records for DKIM (there are 3 of them). The page does say you need to repeat a few steps, but can be easily overlooked if skimming too quickly through it.

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r/Domains on Reddit: Need Advice: Buy Domain from Cloudflare or Porkbun

May 1, 2025 -

I’m planning to buy a domain soon and I’m comparing Cloudflare and Porkbun. I’ve heard good things about both, but I’d love to hear your opinions.

Mainly, I’m looking for:

A clean and easy-to-use interface (UI)

Simple DNS management

Good customer support

No hidden fees or surprises

Overall smooth experience for someone managing a small site or project

So which one would you recommend?

Is Porkbun better for beginners?

Is Cloudflare better if I plan to use their DNS and security features?

How do their UIs compare?

Would really appreciate your thoughts or personal experiences before I decide.

Register the domain with Porkbun and point the nameservers to the ones Cloudflare gives you and then manage your DNS from there.

Porkbun pointed to Cloudflare. Almost as cheap and no vendor lock-in. Also very good customer support as opposed to CF.

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r/Domains on Reddit: Is there a "safest" domain registrar out there? I currently use PorkBun, but I'm not sure if I should switch to anything safer.Is there a "safest" domain registrar out there? I currently use PorkBun, but I'm not sure if I should switch to anything safer.

May 5, 2023 -

I don’t know if there’s things such attacks on domain websites and losing them or getting them hacked would be bad

Porkbun is one of the cheapest. Pretty good. Use two factor authentication with your account in Porkbun. In fact, you should use 2fa with all your online accounts everywhere.

I run a stolen domain name recovery service. Part of the way you make your account at a registrar is takeoff advantage of their security. I can tell you that the most secure registrars, where domains tend to not get stolen, are google domains and fabulous.com. Google domains ONLY if you sign up for google advanced protection, which allows you to set up a yubikey on the account. Google sends you two of them. You can also use a yubikey with 2fa on fabulous.com.

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r/Domains on Reddit: Porkbun or Cloudflare?

March 28, 2022 -

I've heard good things about both. I read reviews online but want to hear from unbiased sources.

Here's what's important to me, in order of priority

Privacy
Ease of use
Cost

Thanks!!!

Why just those two? You need a more secure registrar.

are you getting just a domain? which TLD? Porkbun for the most times it is cheaper. Free whois privacy Usually I order from Porkbun then have the site running in 45-60 minutes after registration. Avoid any registrar with the world CHEAP. Cloudflare promises 100% uptime. That is not possible.