Porkbun.com Now Manages Over 2 Million Domain Names
June 24 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Porkbun.com has announced that it manages over two million
domain names. The milestone comes at a quickening pace for the
growing domain name registrar, which worked for seven years – from
2015 to 2022 – to build its first one million domains under
management and only two years to cross the two million mark.
Porkbun forecasts additional million domain celebrations
accelerating as more customers, especially its core audience of
technical developers and savvy bargain shoppers, transfer in their
existing domain portfolios, register new domains, and tell their
friends about Porkbun.com.
“The market was fairly entrenched in 2015, making it a difficult
time to start a new Registrar,” said Porkbun CEO, Raymond King.
“But Owen, our CTO, and I had long dreamed of a simple, fair and
transparent offering that would put the fun back into the process
of choosing a name and building a website.”
Porkbun.com has been especially successful with new generic
top-level domains (TLDs), such as .xyz and .live, while offering
at-cost registrations for legacy options like .com and .org.
Indeed, Porkbun was founded as a retailer for its parent company
Top Level Design’s owned top-level domains. “Since the early stage
of our company was focused on building a successful registry, which
has since been acquired, Porkbun was able to grow naturally and
without the same pressure. We didn’t set out to monetize Porkbun,
but instead built the exact domain registrar that we wanted to use
ourselves,” Ray added.
“Porkbun reaching 2 million domain names in a short period of
time is impressive. Their creativity and ingenuity in offering
customers diverse options and practical solutions for customers is
exciting,” said Rachel Sterling, Chief Marketing Officer at
Identity Digital. “We’re pleased to see Identity Digital web
addresses contribute to their success as they help customers build
memorable online identities.”
The founding team of Porkbun.com remains in place and is made up
of domain industry veterans who have invented new domain
acquisition technologies and built two other global top-ten
registrars. Porkbun is currently the 9th largest new TLD registrar
in the world and the 20th largest registrar for ICANN-accredited
TLDs more broadly.
About Porkbun.com
Porkbun is an amazingly awesome ICANN accredited domain name
registrar based out of the Pacific Northwest. It offers a
refreshingly easy and affordable approach to domain registration as
well as web and email hosting. Porkbun was the first registrar to
offer free SSL Certificates via Let’s Encrypt and is widely
recognized for its value-driven and security-first offering. The
entire Porkbun support team is USA-based and offers live customer
support via phone, chat, and email.
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Danielle Saunders Marketing Director danielle@porkbun.com