Porkbun vs IONOS
Across 20 TLDs both registrars sell, Porkbun is cheaper on 19 over three years and IONOS on 1.
IONOS runs the most aggressive first-year pricing of any registrar on Pikkly, and the steepest cliff behind it. A .com costs $1.00 for the first year and $20.00 to renew, a twentyfold increase and 92% over the $10.44 the name actually costs. A .org is the same $1.00 into $20.00. On .xyz it is $0.75 into $15.00. On .dev, $12.50 into $25.00. Porkbun's equivalents renew at $11.08, $11.84, $14.21 and $12.87, all within a few percent of cost. Over three years a .com at IONOS costs $41.00 against Porkbun's $33.24, and the gap widens every year after that. IONOS is a large, long-established German hosting company, and if you are already buying hosting from them then keeping the domain in the same account has genuine administrative value. The first-year price is also real money saved if you are registering a name speculatively and may not keep it. But as a place to hold a domain you intend to own for years, the renewal is the whole story, and it is nearly double Porkbun's. The pattern is worth recognising beyond this pair: any registrar advertising a domain for about a dollar is pricing the first year as customer acquisition, and the number that matters is the one they charge in year two.
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| .com | $11.08 | $11.08 | $33.24 | $1.00 | $20.00 | $41.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .ai | $82.70 | $82.70 | $248.10 | $60.00 | $120.00 | $300.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .io | $28.12 | $51.80 | $131.72 | $40.99 | $90.00 | $220.99 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .dev | $8.75 | $12.87 | $34.49 | $12.50 | $25.00 | $62.50 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .org | $7.98 | $11.84 | $31.66 | $1.00 | $20.00 | $41.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .net | $12.52 | $12.52 | $37.56 | $5.00 | $20.00 | $45.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .co | $15.76 | $31.20 | $78.16 | $36.00 | $48.00 | $132.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .app | $8.75 | $14.93 | $38.61 | $12.00 | $25.00 | $62.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .xyz | $2.04 | $14.21 | $30.46 | $0.75 | $15.00 | $30.75 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .me | $17.27 | $17.27 | $51.81 | $1.00 | $25.00 | $51.00 | IONOS | ↗ |
| .cloud | $3.88 | $21.11 | $46.10 | $1.00 | $37.00 | $75.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .online | $1.96 | $28.84 | $59.64 | $1.20 | $48.00 | $97.20 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .site | $1.96 | $28.84 | $59.64 | $0.79 | $55.00 | $110.79 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .tech | $6.99 | $50.98 | $108.95 | $3.00 | $105.00 | $213.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .shop | $2.06 | $31.41 | $64.88 | $0.98 | $56.00 | $112.98 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .store | $2.57 | $43.77 | $90.11 | $1.47 | $84.00 | $169.47 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .info | $3.60 | $22.14 | $47.88 | $1.40 | $35.00 | $71.40 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .blog | $2.57 | $21.11 | $44.79 | $6.00 | $40.00 | $86.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .live | $2.57 | $26.26 | $55.09 | $4.03 | $46.00 | $96.03 | Porkbun | ↗ |
| .studio | $11.84 | $32.44 | $76.72 | $22.00 | $40.00 | $102.00 | Porkbun | ↗ |
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