Porkbun
- Free allowance
- Not free. Promotional first-year prices with a separate renewal price
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price statedsee Price below
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe promo price applies to the first year only; the renewal is the regular price
- Evidence
- documented19 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-30checked 2026-10-30 (live); stale on 2026-11-30
| Free tier | not free. Promotional first-year prices with a separate renewal price unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 11.08 .com; USD 7.98 .org; USD 2.04 then USD 14.21 .xyz |
| Limits |
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| Identity | card a payment method |
| Egress | not applicable to a registrar |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a domain name |
| Retention | a registration runs for its term and renews at the regular price shown on the TLD page |
| Interface | rest a web dashboard, an API for registered domains, and a public pricing endpoint (api.porkbun.com/api/json/v3/pricing/get) that answers without an API key |
| Tooling | the Porkbun API, the dashboard |
| Composes with | a cheaper first year than Cloudflare on .org, and a more expensive second year on .xyz |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The .xyz promo is 2.04 and the renewal is 14.21, which is seven times the first year and more than a .com at Cloudflare. The promo is the marketing; the renewal is the price. |
| Evidence note | documented the price index, the TLD pages and the public pricing API give registration, renewal and transfer separately, in USD with the ICANN fee included, and mark each sale price |
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Evidence 19
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | porkbun.com/products/domains | .com from USD 11.08, .net from USD 12.52, .org from USD 7.98, on the pricing index |
| 2026-10-22 | porkbun.com/tld/xyz | .xyz USD 2.04 first-year sale, regular price USD 14.21 |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | Porkbun prices are in USD, for non-premium one-year terms |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | the ICANN fee is inside every Porkbun price |
| 2026-10-30 | api.porkbun.com/api/json/v3/pricing/get | the public pricing API lists registration, renewal, transfer and an empty coupons list per TLD |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | .com registration, renewal and transfer each USD 11.08, no sale |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | .org USD 7.98 first-year sale over a struck USD 11.84; renewal and transfer USD 11.84 |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | .net registration, renewal and transfer each USD 12.52, no sale |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/tld/xyz | .xyz USD 2.04 first-year sale; USD 14.21 regular registration, renewal and transfer |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/tld/top | .top USD 1.63 first-year sale, USD 4.32 regular registration, USD 4.63 renewal and transfer |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/tld/de | .de USD 2.90 on sale, USD 5.49 regular registration, USD 4.07 renewal, USD 5.10 transfer |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | .eu registration, renewal and transfer each USD 5.88, no sale |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/tld/uk | .uk USD 5.66 registration and renewal, USD 0.00 transfer |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/tld/cc | .cc USD 3.40 on sale, USD 8.55 regular registration, renewal and transfer |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | .vip USD 4.12 first-year sale; renewal and transfer USD 5.15 on sale over a struck USD 15.96 |
| 2026-10-30 | api.porkbun.com/api/json/v3/pricing/get | the pricing endpoint returned the full price list to a request carrying no API key |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | the price index states its currency and fee basis |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/tld/xyz | .xyz first-year sale USD 2.04 against USD 14.21 for regular registration, renewal and transfer |
| 2026-10-30 | porkbun.com/products/domains | the index shows .com USD 11.08, .org USD 7.98 and .xyz USD 2.04 first year with USD 14.21 renewal, unchanged |
More fields 4
| tld price terms | USD; non-premium names, one-year registration, renewal and transfer; most transfers include a one-year renewal |
|---|---|
| icann fee | included in every listed price, with any other fee |
| tld coupons | none: the pricing API returns an empty coupons list for each of .com, .org, .net, .xyz, .top, .de, .eu, .uk, .cc and .vip |
| tld prices | {"com": "first year USD 11.08; renewal USD 11.08; transfer USD 11.08; no sale price","org": "first year USD 7.98 (first-year sale; USD 11.84 without it); renewal USD 11.84; transfer USD 11.84","net": "first year USD 12.52; renewal USD 12.52; transfer USD 12.52; no sale price","xyz": "first year USD 2.04 (first-year sale; USD 14.21 without it); renewal USD 14.21; transfer USD 14.21","top": "first year USD 1.63 (first-year sale; USD 4.32 without it); renewal USD 4.63; transfer USD 4.63","de": "first year USD 2.90 (sale; USD 5.49 regular registration); renewal USD 4.07; transfer USD 5.10","eu": "first year USD 5.88; renewal USD 5.88; transfer USD 5.88; no sale price","uk": "first year USD 5.66; renewal USD 5.66; transfer USD 0.00; no sale price","cc": "first year USD 3.40 (sale; USD 8.55 without it); renewal USD 8.55; transfer USD 8.55","vip": "first year USD 4.12 (first-year sale; USD 15.96 without it); renewal USD 5.15 and transfer USD 5.15, both sale prices over a struck USD 15.96"} |
Unknown values 1
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed