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New provider: Porkbun

Published at Sep 18, 2024

Porkbun has gained popularity based on polls conducted on Twitter and Threads; therefore, I decided to integrate it into Unolia.

Porkbun has an original API; every endpoint is a POST request. I suppose they made it so the content of the request is encrypted by the SSL certificate. That doesn't follow the RESTful API design, but overall, it's an easy-to-work-with API.

For the most part, creating, updating, and deleting records has worked well.

However, there are some limitations I found:

  • Porkbun DNS servers support emoji subdomains, and it's possible to create them through the API. However, if you try to create them through their dashboard, you will get an error. With Unolia, you don't have to worry; you can put an emoji in your subdomain, and they are automatically converted to Punycode.
  • You can also put emojis in a TXT record, and they will appear correctly in the DNS zone file. Unfortunately, the content will be converted to four question marks in their database; therefore, in their dashboard and their API response.
  • The minimum TTL is 600 seconds according to their API documentation and dashboard. However, if you try to set it to 60 seconds, it will work. I don't know if it's a bug or if they changed it recently.

Those are the kinds of edge cases that I'm testing with Unolia. Most of the time, you won't even notice those limitations because you don't need those features on your domain. And that's fine.

Anyway, I'm happy to announce that Porkbun is now available as a provider in Unolia. You can use it to manage your domains DNS records and be notified if we found any issues with your DNS configuration.

Next on the list are Namecheap and GoDaddy. Are you interested? Let me know in a short message.