This wouldn't surprise me, given their engineering abilities, and I'd be terrified to leave anything critical in their hands.
The porkbun UI is just barebones, it isn't better than anything else.
Porkbun's prices are equal to or higher than most registrars.
I don't see configuration options in porkbun that I can't utilize with other registrars/dns hosts.
It seems like maybe porkbun has good customer service? I've had that elsewhere though, so again not a huge benefit for me. Support for domains isn't something I've ever really needed though.
I don't really understand why people are recommending porkbun like they are.
I did briefly use Porkbun and have to say that the minimalist UI that actually loads fast was a breath of fresh air and was so much less frustrating than Namecheap. I wonder what other good options for domains are out there. No comment on customer service in either case, though.
For example, recently I migrated from Time4VPS to Contabo due to better prices and more RAM (I realized that most of the time my servers are near-idle, so some overprovisioning is perfectly fine as long as it leads to money savings), I could just change the A records for specific servers in NameCheap and the CNAME records that point to those for the actual apps picked up on that and it was a pretty trivial migration. Having the NameCheap DNS UI not suck would have made that even more pleasant, vs it being kind of slow and clunky.
That move saved me somewhere between 400-800 EUR a year, which with the salaries here is pretty good!
All my domains are with Namecheap except 1-2 I was/am testing on Porkbun but I’m considering a switch since it means a hundred or two dollars a year in savings.
Namecheap is $14.95 renewal for me (I believe this is slightly discounted due to how many domains I have)
Porkbun is $11.06
That may not seem like much but it’s a couple hundred dollars a year difference for me (some TLDs have a bigger spread).
They suspended all Russian accounts because of politics. This means they use the emotional rather than logical part of their brain and have no place anywhere near critical infrastructure. Full stop.
You might like it when somebody gives two fingers to those damn Russians, but their decision to drop all clients regardless of their political leanings or actions did absolutely nothing to damage the regime, while creating significant problems for projects like OVDinfo that already had their hands full providing legal help to antiwar protesters:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812
Not to mention that most clients moved to Russian registrars instead, this helping to keep more money inside the country.
FUCK namecheap. Their name says it all. If you're still using them, pray you won't run against their politics sooner or later. It's unpredictable, stranger things have happened in the last few years.
Leave while you can.
Why? Would anything happen to my renewed domains?
I know they no longer support free e-mail service, however, which was a bummer.
I have not found a better alternative.
I never had an issue with Gandi so far.
When you have as many domains (i.e. amazing future business opportunities!) as I do, that adds up to a lot.
So one by one I’m moving them all to Porkbun. Seems great so far.
I can imagine it doesn’t matter so much if you don’t have many domains.