Porkbun review: $11.08 .com, adult TLDs renew at $98.35

Porkbun .com pricing with no renewal jump

A .com costs $11.08 a year to register and the same to renew. Porkbun sells that as its pitch: no cheap first year followed by a higher renewal. For a network of adult sites, ten .com domains cost $110.80 a year, every year.

What .xxx, .porn, .adult and .sex cost at Porkbun

All four adult extensions cost $52.01 for the first year on sale, then $98.35 a year, which is also the renewal and transfer price. Three years of a .xxx therefore come to $248.71. Porkbun describes .sex as selling both inside and outside the adult industry.

What every Porkbun domain includes

• Free WHOIS privacy, with Private By Design, LLC listed as registrant on supported extensions.
• A free Let’s Encrypt wildcard SSL certificate, renewed automatically when the domain uses Porkbun’s nameservers.
• DNS hosted on Cloudflare.
• Twenty free email forwards, then $3 per extra address a year, plus URL forwarding.

Who runs Porkbun

Porkbun LLC is an ICANN-accredited registrar launched in 2015 and based in Tigard, Oregon. All prices are in US dollars.

Some new accounts are asked for a photo ID at sign-up, based on region and other risk signals. Veriff runs the check, and Porkbun deletes the submitted ID after 15 days.

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