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Please do come back to tell us the results of your contact with their support. Really want to know what their reason was.
Shit sounds sloppier than mashed potatoes.
I dont get complaints that I send out abusive traffic because I always
ip r a black 0.0.0.0/8I have a hard time believing any serious registrar would just do this, then again, who names a registrar porkbun. First time I heard that name I was like - there's a name that trumps godaddy.
It was most likely the second coming of Dracula or the return of the perfumer. Which is the same thing. After the Bahamas he moved to the closer location. Now he's out for revenge..
The domain in question is stanescu.uk registered on October 15.
And this is the content of the index.html file that I was using: https://pastebin.com/Xq14MWZY
The webmail.stanescu.uk is a regular roundcube from hestiacp
Also, files.stanescu.uk was a cname for nx44245.your-storageshare.de a nexctloud storage instance from hetzner, also not used.
The website was intended to be a portfolio for a family, and also a place where family members can save their photos and have a webmail and email accounts with their family name as domain name.
I tried to transfer out other .uk domains from porkbun, however it seems that the procedure is different, it should be initiated a push from porkbun to the new registrar and I couldn't find that option. However, all the uk domains I had at porkbun was not used, so I will probably let them expire.
For the family project website I already registered other domain with a different tld with other registrar, so I will continue with the new domain.
I started transfering out my important domains from porkbun, I don't trust them with my domains any more.
As far as I remember this TLD is only promoted for businesses that are located in UK?
Only com.uk for everyone.
Anyone can register .uk
https://uk.godaddy.com/help/about-uk-domains-5854
Also check this:
Who can register .uk domains?
You don’t need to live in the UK or be a British citizen to register a .uk domain, as anyone can claim one!
https://www.123-reg.co.uk/support/domains/about-uk-domains/
Netim's prices, especially renewal prices, are quite high.
Spaceship is great.
Yes, porkbun has extremely strict rules and out of bounds management on users.
I am ok with that, if I broke some rule I expect to be at least notified about it. However, I posted here all the info and content related to my domain and I am unable to find out what rule did I break.
What are some examples of their extremely strict rules?
Several stories like this on here.
At some point I think they suspended domains automatically if flagged by Google.
They usually come here to explain themselves afterwards, what huge changes they’ve now done to make sure it never occurs again etc, but it always does.
I’d avoid them permanently, there’s a lot of good alternatives, don’t give them your money.
yes, avoid Porkbun. they have a tendency to suspend domains. Lots of similar complaints from various users. Never put your production domain with Porkbun.
and what can Google flag in my html page?
https://pastebin.com/Xq14MWZY
I miss the times when Porkbun was the hyped new registrar that was always nice and accepted crypto users when other registrars wouldn't. That time is now long gone...
just guessing - most probably coz Stănescu is a family name and the registrant details might not be of someone from the Stănescu family
You are right, but netim just supports more suffixes.
There is no such requirement stated on the porkbun docs nor on the Nominet docs.
But indeed, I am a relative of the Stanescu family, just not with this family name
I think that's why they were so understanding when I told them that I cannot use the uk domain anymore.
Frankly, it should almost never be the business of any domain name registrar (or even the registry) to shut down, disable, delete or seize any domain name, outside of a situation where the law requires it (which itself is very rare.)
If there's an issue with how the service used in conjunction with a domain is being utilized, it should be the hosting or email service provider that takes action. Not the domain name registrar/registry.
The only service a registrar is required to perform, is to tell the TLD registry which (at minimum two) name servers the domain name owner wants to populate in the top level zone file.
@josephf they should at least have the margins to always have a human take action, not a bot
I’d recommend everyone to find an ICANN certified registrar in your area
The smaller and local providers are often a pleasure to work with, they often just cost a bit more ($1-3 a year extra for the main tld’s) and they’re always ready to help and they have just about zero automation when it comes to suspensions etc
I personally use Inleed for everything, but that’s because I’m in Sweden. I’m sure there’s similar gems to be found in your country or state
Centralizing DNS is not all that bad, you can change it quick enough. Centralizing registrars though, that’s bad
They are good as a registrar in terms of pricing and functionality, but their abuse department is run by a bunch of people who are either frightening idiots or too unprofessional to simply validate the existence of an abuse. I had my share with them a while back too.
What was the suspended domain? I wonder if it's related to some copyright claim.
I have used Porkbun and never have any issue with them, but after seeing this thread and reading some comments, I'll move the rest of my domain names to Spaceship which has become my primary domain name registrar.
Same, started my transfers earlier, also to Spaceship.
thank you for the write up, i do have domain at porkbun albeit they're not accessible publicly but this is something to pay attention.
If OP comes back and porkbun really didn't explain why the domain was suspended, that'll be a huge redflag.
most of LET provider here when forwarding DMCA notices, they always has the publicly known link even if it's just cache in search engine(they're kind of annoying on their own). so porkbun not being able to provide anything is.. weird.
I posted in an earlier reply the domain and also the content of the html index file, please check my earlier replies.