Killswitch

Be careful with Porkbun, I had been a champion of theirs for years until I got burned and they almost caused me to lose $20k worth of domains.


I had a .page domain for a project idea and it had been sitting unused since I registered it 2 years ago. Some spam reporting company decided to completely rely on AI for things and falsely flagged the domain as the originator of spam even though the domain is not in use and pointed to porkbun's nameservers.

But they reported it to the .page domain management company who then reported it to porkbun and porkbun flagged my account and stopped allowing domain renewals.

Never emailed me about the issue or nothing, just stopped renewing my domains.

Because they send you 2 emails daily for 30 days before and after a domain expires I always ignore those emails from them and since I have so many domains I get them nonstop.

But one day I accidentally opened one instead of deleting it and saw 3 of my very expensive domains in the "this domain expired, you have 30 days to renew it" list and got concerned because they were set to autorenew. Signed into my account and tried to manually renew them just to get a generic browser alert "unable to process payment, please contact support"

I posted about it on X (formerly Twitter) and thankfully Richard Kirkendall (if you still browse here, haiii) jumped in and helped me resolve the issue and I've been slowly moving all my domains back to Namecheap but under their Spaceship brand.

Porkbun did resolve the issue on their end, renewed my domains for me, and assured me new processes will be put in place to make sure the issue doesn't happen again, but their complete lack of care until I went viral on X about it left a bad taste in my mouth.

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