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Buy Your Domain from Porkbun
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May 22, 2024
### Buy Your Domain from Porkbun In this video, you'll discover how to easily purchase a domain name from Porkbun, a popular domain registrar. The tutorial covers the step-by-step process of searching for available domains, selecting the perfect one for your needs, and completing the purchase. You'll also learn about the additional features Porkbun offers, such as free WHOIS privacy, SSL certificates, and email hosting. Ideal for beginners and seasoned website creators alike, this guide ensures a smooth and hassle-free experience in securing your online presence with Porkbun.
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Pork Bun, a funny name and the best place to purchase your domain
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So back in April, I created a video with a long list of places where you could potentially purchase your domain
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Some we recommended, others we definitely didn't recommend you purchasing from. There is a wide range in the price that you could pay each year for your domain, and I
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don't want you spending any more money than you need to. So when I first purchased domains way, maybe 10 years or so ago, we ended up purchasing
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them from GoDaddy. It's the largest business out there. You saw their ads all over the place, but it is definitely not the cheapest option
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The last couple of years, we've been using Namecheap because the privacy protection was
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free and the per year cost was also lower than, say, GoDaddy
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But since the creation of the video I talked about in April, we basically purchased a couple
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of domains from Pork Bun. It's way cheaper, works just as well
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The privacy protection is included. So basically I wanted to hop on the computer and just show you how much money you could save
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Okay, so here we are at porkbun.com. Let's click on Oink the Fig Co
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Let's just add another O to our name and check out the pricing
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So as you can see, thefigco.com is $9.13 per year and is going to renew at $9.13 per year
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If we check out GoDaddy now, let's see how this differs. Okay, so one of the things that bothers me a little bit with this presentation is it's
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saying $1, but if you're not paying attention to these two little letters here, this is
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per month instead of per year. So if you scroll down a little bit further, you're going to see the annualized price
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So $12 for the first year, and then you can see, so a .org would be $9.99, and there's
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a bunch of other options down below. But so now if we go and add this to our cart, it's going to show you what the renewal cost is
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So let's just go and check out one year instead of two because it makes it more clear the math
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So as you can see, it'll give it to you for $11.99 for the first year, but the renewal
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is going to be $18.99. And if you go down further, you're going to see the full domain and privacy protection
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is $9.99 per year, something that is included with Porkbun at no additional cost
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So you can see right there, you're spending significantly more. So the first year is $3 more, and other years are another $10 more essentially
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And so, you know, definitely don't want to be using GoDaddy. And then let's go to Namecheap, the option that we were using for the last couple of years
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So what you can see here, it's $8.98 for the first year
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Normally it's $9.48. I guess it's 50 cents off. The one thing here, so let's add this to the cart and go to checkout
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So as you can see here, domain privacy enabled, free forever. So this is going to be $9.99 at GoDaddy
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So this is definitely better than GoDaddy, but this is also free with Porkbun
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One of the things that I don't like as much with Namecheap is it's not as clear what the cost for the renewal is going to be
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So I did find the page where you could see the renewal rates. Basically, if you hover over domains and go to domain name search, and then scroll down
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a little bit, here is all of their pricing. So here is the first year at $8.98, and then you see renews at $13.48
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So this is less than what you're going to be paying with GoDaddy, but not as cheap as Porkbun
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Also, one of the other amazing reasons why you should purchase from Porkbun is their merchandise
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So if we go to Porkbun.shop, let's just check these out. So they have their mugs from all over the world
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So from Russia, Australia, France, Italy, Germany, UK, and there's a bunch of other ones
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Here's their kind of main logo, and they have all the different domains. So .accounts, .actor, .agency, and have kind of cool designs with their pig logo
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They have free shipping worldwide. So if you want one of their mugs, you can purchase those as well
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So Porkbun doesn't have an affiliate program. I will put links down below to their website, to their merchandise shop
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We won't get any commission from this, but I want to just create this update video to
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make sure you're purchasing your domains from the cheapest place possible. So if you want to learn more about how to build your website, we have a whole bunch
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of videos to help you with that. I'll link to those videos right here. Hope to see you in those and future videos