Reviews 4.2
2,970 total
LB
1 reviews US
Porkbun needs to go back to their roots and do better.
Great experience. However, the price of .one TLD seems higher than the competition. I went with Porkbun anyway because all my domains are here. I also found lack of granular filters when searching the domain a bit annoying. For instance, I want a filter where I can only see domains which renew for less than $20. There’s no way to do that. Sorting by price sorts by the first year’s price which is often discounted with a special promo and the renewal price is much higher, rendering the filter quite unusable. Lastly, Porkbun doesn’t notify you before the renewal price goes up. I logged in and found out that all my domain renewal prices have gone up and I had no idea. I don’t think I like that. One of the most important reasons I like Porkbun is because they have the best prices. Not sure that’s true anymore, given the fact that they’ve now started to advertise on podcasts. That money has to come from somewhere and unfortunately, it seems like it’s coming from increased domain name prices for customers. Really sad to see.
Date of experience: May 01, 2024
Hello and thank you for the review! 1) Love the idea of being able to filter search results by renewal price, I'm going to add that as a feature request. 2) Just want to say that we only raise prices when the registry raises the price that they charge us, so we should always be one of the lowest priced registrars. There are some registrars that are currently selling at a loss in order to gain market share and unfortunately we will never be able to beat them because we cannot take a loss on registrations and renewals. If a renewal price is going to increase substantially we will usually try and send out a notice, the issue now is that registries are constantly changing pricing across 100's of TLDs and it makes notification difficult. 3) As already stated, our prices should still be some of the lowest but there are registrars that are currently selling at a loss but that is unsustainable. We have not raised prices due to our advertising efforts. To be honest, our profit doesn't really come from domains, it's mostly add on services and other aftermarket products such as auctions / etc. Thanks again!
PC
1 reviews US
Hassle to buy
Price good, however a domain that was available had message to notify y'all to purchase. Went back in and the price went up, still notify request. I went to GoDaddy and bought no issue.
Date of experience: April 21, 2024
Hello and thank you for the review. That behavior sounds strange because we don't have any sort of notice on the site that would ask a user to contact us in order to purchase a domain and prices in general would not change. Can you share what domain it was, maybe via email and reference this review so that we can research?
Computer Nerd
1 reviews US
problematic crypto payment system
Porkbun used to be a flawless experience but in the last few months they have taken a bit of dive...The biggest issue here is their crypto payment, that seems to be a punishment on the end user. Unlike before their crypto payment system requires you to connect your wallet to an external third party processor and no longer generates a payment address like before. Not only off course this has its own native security flows for your wallet but it also severely limits the payment to the more expensive ETH network coins. Also many of the listed wallets are non responsive when you click on them. So to expand on this I created a new wallet, transfered a little amount of LTC to the wallet and went through their walletconnect system only to find find out the coin is not even accepted. So I had to transfer my domain to NameCheap which is my second choice after Porkbun, their system does actually generates a crypto payment address. Now that being said, the rest is good including Porkbun's very competitive straightforward pricing and interface.
Date of experience: April 26, 2024
Yulai Dong
1 reviews CN
Price
I'm not very happy with your price policy. You increased the price significantly. You don't even have any discount for a multi-year renewal deal.
Date of experience: April 22, 2024
Hello. We don't raise prices unless our wholesale cost for a domain changes. The registries are unfortunately in control of wholesale pricing. We typically make $0 after credit card fees and costs on a domain when you register or renew and cannot give any further discount or else we'd lose money and go out of business. All of that said, our prices still remain some of the lowest in the industry.
Ron Clabo
1 reviews US
Overall I love Porkbun, but...
Overall I love Porkbun. But today my auto renewal failed and it shouldn't have. Thankfully I saw the email. So I signed in and checked my account and the card on file is our new credit card. It was unclear why the renewal failed. So I did the renewal manually and on the payment page it defaulted to an old card that was no longer linked to my account. What?! So now I know why the renewal failed but WHY was the renewal not using our current credit card tied to our account?!
Date of experience: April 11, 2024
Jenny Gluck
1 reviews US
The renewal process was seamless
The renewal process was seamless, but the Link email was a surprise. What is Link, why do I need it, and should I pay for it?
Date of experience: April 06, 2024
Hi Jenny! Please contact [email protected] we would love to help!
Robert
1 reviews US
Sneaky upsell.
When I added a domain to my cart, a free .app domain was also added. I liked the idea, but when I went to check out, I was told that the price on the FREE domain had changed and I was going to be charged for it. Needless to say, they got me because I did end up paying for and registering both domains.
Date of experience: April 05, 2024
Mark Bachelder
1 reviews US
I got through the process of setting up…
I got through the process of setting up an account ok, but many questions and instructions were vague and ambiguous. Or referred to features in the application that were not labeled the same way. It took a lot of puzzling about, not very easy, nor very quick. Especially the 2FA part.
Date of experience: April 04, 2024
Pect James
1 reviews JP
All good things are not cheap
All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear
Date of experience: March 28, 2024
Hi! What can we do improve you experience?
Goutham kodali
1 reviews IN
the transaction was painful
the transaction was painful, customer service saved it for me
Date of experience: April 03, 2024
Sorry about the troubles. Unfortunately India has a lot of regulation around credit card payments that make it very difficult to work with.
Graham Johnson
1 reviews ZA
The experience on my laptop is 100% but…
The experience on my laptop is 100% but an mobile I was unable to connect yesterday and ended up using Godaddy for a registration. I am anticipating moving my entire portfolio of 360 domains to Porkbun but am a little concerned about the lack of mobile service.
Date of experience: April 02, 2024
Thank you for the review. You should be able to connect over mobile unless your mobile carrier is blocking us for some reason or if there's something on your phone specifically that might be causing issues like a VPN. Can you contact our support department and see if they can help you troubleshoot?
Ruchir
1 reviews GB
Not happy with the renewal process.
Not happy with the renewal process.
Date of experience: April 01, 2024
Please contact [email protected] we would love to help!
Nicolai Patrushev
1 reviews DE
Overall experience not bad
Overall experience not bad, but there a room for improvement, Porkbun use coinbase as cryptocurrency intermediate for receiving of payments, well its not bad, but my personal preferences are with different crypto currency provider. Maybe Porkbun will change it someday. The support was helpful i think theirs work is really important.
Date of experience: March 31, 2024
Thank you for the feedback. We understand your concerns!
Saif
1 reviews IN
A Little Expensive With No Discount for Returning Users
I wish I could rate 5 ou of 5, but the current fee for a .com domain is a little expensive for me.
Date of experience: March 29, 2024
Our .com registration price is the lowest in the industry so this review really doesn't make any sense. We have hard costs involved that we have to pay in order to sell you a domain name, we can't sell below our costs or we'll go out of business.
Jhae Thompson-Caldwell
1 reviews US
Being new to this whole website setting…
Being new to this whole website setting up, I have to say that navigation through the system was easy and clear
Date of experience: March 21, 2024
Thank you for the review! Anything we can do to make this 5 stars?
Leonardo Dias
1 reviews BR
Good, but a little high prices
I've been using Porkbun on my .digital domain for over 4 years. The company is great, but it fails in 2 factors: - Although the price is good, it is still very high compared to the current monetary reality in my country. - I didn't receive warnings that my domain had expired, if I hadn't checked, I would probably lose the domain... - They could offer some discount coupons or discounts based on the number of years to be renewed. The renewal price for 1 year is the same as for 10 years...
Date of experience: March 24, 2024
Thank you for the review, I'm sorry you've had some issue with our service. 1) Unfortunately we don't control wholesale pricing of domains and our markup is usually 0 on registrations / renewals / transfers. 2) That is odd. You should receive several expiration notices. Can you make sure that the email address is correct in your account settings and also check your spam folder? 3) Again, our markup is already mostly 0 after credit card fees. We cannot go any lower without losing money and going out of business.
ShaMara Boone
1 reviews US
Trying to get information on how to get…
Trying to get information on how to get a domain with another company and this is completely foreign to me and I just didn’t get enough explanation as how to do it. I feel like companies like this need to learn how to speak with and explain to people in a basic easy to understand manner.
Date of experience: March 07, 2024
Please contact [email protected] we would love to help!
Kamrul Islam
1 reviews BD
Good Price
It took me 4-5 days to confirm my account, which is a hassle. Their domain prices are lower compared to most other platforms, which is a good advantage.
Date of experience: March 18, 2024
Please contact [email protected] we would love to help!
Berk İskar
1 reviews TR
Advanced DNS records cannot be managed.
Advanced DNS records cannot be managed.
Date of experience: March 15, 2024
Thank you for the feedback! Oink!
David Allen
1 reviews ES
Paying with PayPal didn’t work
Paying with PayPal didn’t work Hard to go back in and pay with credit card.
Date of experience: March 15, 2024
Please contact [email protected] we would love to help!
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