Registrar has 750,000 domain customers.
Domain name registrar Porkbun announced today that it hit four million domains under management.
Unlike some registrars that grow mostly through discounted, low-cost TLDs, Porkbun is popular with end users, particularly developers. It has 750,000 active domain customers, which averages out to about 5 domains each. Porkbun has over 1.5 million .com domains under management.
Perhaps more impressively, its growth is completely organic.
Porkbun is known for its low pricing (it typically charges wholesale plus transaction fees) and for not taking itself too seriously. It also doesn’t bombard registrants with cross-sells. (It even has a button that says “Upsell me”, where customers can ask it to suggest other products.)
Ray King founded the registrar because he needed a way to help end users adopt the top level domains operated by one of his other companies, Top Level Design.
Once customers registered a domain, they started asking Porkbun to add email and other features. That pushed Porkbun into becoming a full-service domain registrar.
Also this week, Porkbun adopted the new DomainAttest protocol that allows marketplaces to verify domain ownership with registrars.
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