Porkbun
 | |
| Type: | Privately held |
| Industry: | Internet, Registrar |
| Founded: | USA, 2014 |
| Founder(s): | Ray King and Peter Brual |
| Headquarters: | 21370 SW Langer Farms Parkway Suite 142-429 Sherwood, OR 97140 |
| Country: | USA |
| Products: | domain registration, web hosting, email hosting |
| Website: | Porkbun.com |
| Facebook: | Porkbun |
| Twitter: |  @Porkbun
|
| IANA ID: | 1861 |
Porkbun is an ICANN accredited Internet domain registrar founded in 2014 by Ray King and Peter Brual. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Top Level Design, Porkbun's office is situated in Sherwood, Oregon, USA.[1]
According to information from the website Namestat.org, which makes statistics on the registration of new gTLDs, Porkbun is among the companies with the best prices for registering domains in new gTLDs.
Porkbun itself, on its website, informs that it sells domain registration at a fair price and with free services, such as private WHOIS.
Porkbun.shop[edit | edit source]
Porkbun.shop is a virtual store on the internet, selling accessories and clothes, containing the logos of some gTLDs, in order to make them more popular and customizable according to the lifestyle of the domain owners.
Anyone from any country can buy accessories, objects and fashionable clothes through the porkbun.shop website, as the product is shipped by international transport.
In 2020, Porkbun and GMO Registry, partnered to raffle gTLD .shop clothing through social media.
Curiosities[edit | edit source]
Despite being an American company, Porkbun uses Brazilian city names as standard DNS servers.
The names used on Porkbun's DNS servers refer to the names of 4 capitals in 4 Brazilian states. Are they:
Curitiba - Paraná State (South Region)
Fortaleza - State of Ceará (Northeast Region)
Maceió - State of Alagoas (Northeast Region)
Salvador - Bahia State (Northeast Region)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Porkbun Registrar's website. Retrieved 31 Jan 2021.