What TLD did you choose on porkbun? Maybe it's a national TLD that requires your ID. I have .EU, .me and .org domains with them and I was never asked for an ID.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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I have bought two dozen domains (with common TLDs) on Porkbun and have never been asked for KYC.
I was going for one of the 6-9 digit .xyz domains. I can't check exactly what the message said since it have me the option to delete my account, which I did, but I believe the gist of it was about fighting against spam
I went for an .org and the same happened to me. After digging, Porkbun says is an automated flag of suspicious account, irrelevant to the TLD.
Unpopular but cloudflare direct? I didn't need to provide photo id for porkbun, buy I did sign up a while ago. Apart from that I have used gandi but they took a weird turn with their pricing etc
Ditto all of this.
There are no good decently priced domain registrars at the moment. Even porkbun is just a cloudflare reseller now. The only downside of going with cloudflare is that don't let you use your own nameservers (at least that was true the last time I checked a few years ago), but if you don't already know that you want that, you probably don't need it.
I second this. I recently bought a domain from them, and they didn't even ask for my name.
I have a .ca domain at hosthero and a .ca domain at easydns if you are in Canada I would recommend them. They offer more than .ca if you are not in Canada.
I use ovh
I would like to use ovh as I have other hosting with them but sadly they don't have one of the TLDs I need.
OVH for the win?
I personally use cloudflare. Never had an issue with them.
Joker.com are cheap and they work. Not the most sexy UI but it works just fine. Personally I have about 25 domains with them. I use (and can recommend) Bunny.net for DNS and CDN and Hetzner for compute and storage.