Porkbun vs Dynadot
Across 20 TLDs both registrars sell, Porkbun is cheaper on 12 over three years and Dynadot on 7.
Porkbun and Dynadot occupy nearly the same position on the price table, and choosing between them is mostly a question of which interface you prefer. On a .com they are twenty cents apart, $11.08 against $10.88, both a few percent over the $10.44 true cost of the name. On .dev Dynadot renews at $12.50 and Porkbun at $12.87, again a difference measured in cents. Both include WHOIS privacy at no charge, both run real APIs, and both have been in business long enough to have survived several price cycles at the registries. The differences are practical rather than financial. Dynadot's strength is breadth and bulk: it supports an unusually long list of TLDs, its bulk search and transfer tooling is better suited to managing dozens of names, and its marketplace is more active if you ever intend to sell. Porkbun's strength is polish, with a cleaner control panel, free email forwarding, and pricing pages that state the renewal next to the first year instead of hiding it. First-year promotions differ enough to matter on individual names: Dynadot opens .dev at $8.00 against Porkbun's $8.75, while Porkbun is cheaper on some ccTLDs. If you are registering one domain, check both for that specific extension, because the winner changes by TLD. If you are managing a portfolio, Dynadot's tooling is the stronger argument and the price difference will not decide it.
| Source | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .com | $11.08 | $11.08 | $33.24 | $10.88 | $10.88 | $32.64 | Dynadot | ↗ |
| .ai | $82.70 | $82.70 | $248.10 | $85.60 | $85.60 | $256.80 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .io | $28.12 | $51.80 | $131.72 | $28.89 | $53.50 | $135.89 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .dev | $8.75 | $12.87 | $34.49 | $8.00 | $12.50 | $33.00 | Dynadot | ↗ |
| .org | $7.98 | $11.84 | $31.66 | $7.99 | $11.64 | $31.27 | Dynadot | ↗ |
| .net | $12.52 | $12.52 | $37.56 | $12.52 | $12.52 | $37.56 | Level | ↗ |
| .co | $15.76 | $31.20 | $78.16 | $15.50 | $31.20 | $77.90 | Dynadot | ↗ |
| .app | $8.75 | $14.93 | $38.61 | $9.99 | $14.50 | $38.99 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .xyz | $2.04 | $14.21 | $30.46 | $1.99 | $14.45 | $30.89 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .me | $17.27 | $17.27 | $51.81 | $9.75 | $17.87 | $45.49 | Dynadot | ↗ |
| .cloud | $3.88 | $21.11 | $46.10 | $3.99 | $21.62 | $47.23 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .online | $1.96 | $28.84 | $59.64 | $2.50 | $29.64 | $61.78 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .site | $1.96 | $28.84 | $59.64 | $2.50 | $26.97 | $56.44 | Dynadot | ↗ |
| .tech | $6.99 | $50.98 | $108.95 | $6.64 | $52.65 | $111.94 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .shop | $2.06 | $31.41 | $64.88 | $1.99 | $32.32 | $66.63 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .store | $2.57 | $43.77 | $90.11 | $2.50 | $43.02 | $88.54 | Dynadot | ↗ |
| .info | $3.60 | $22.14 | $47.88 | $3.99 | $22.69 | $49.37 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .blog | $2.57 | $21.11 | $44.79 | $3.50 | $21.62 | $46.74 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .live | $2.57 | $26.26 | $55.09 | $2.50 | $26.97 | $56.44 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .studio | $11.84 | $32.44 | $76.72 | $11.96 | $33.39 | $78.74 | Porkbun | ↗ |
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