just registered my 500th domain name this year. i don't have a problem. i have a COLLECTION.
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╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ [ SYSTEM.PIG — Meet Your Mascot ]
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│ ♥ PORKBUN ♥ │
│ .com $10/yr │
╰──────────────╯ PORK-OS mascot loaded from /usr/local/pig
Species: Sus domesticus (Internet Edition)
Occupation: Domain Name Registrar & Good Vibes Officer
Special Ability: Making domains affordable since 2014
Favorite Food: Fresh HTML with a side of CSS
[ GALLERY.EXE — The Pig Reimagined ]
╭─────────╮ │ ╔══╗╔══╗│ │ ║▓▓║║▓▓║│ CYBER-PIG │ ╚══╝╚══╝│ v2.077 │ ╭────╮ │ │ │ oo │ │ "Your domain. │ ╰────╯ │ Your rules." │ ╱ ╲ │ ╰─────────╯
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╭┤ │◉ ◉│ ├╮ ASTRO-PIG
│╰─┤ ├─╯│ Moon Mission
│ │ oo │ │
│ │╲──╱│ │ "One small oink
╰──┤ ├──╯ for pigkind."
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│ ◉ ◉ │ WIZARD-PIG
│ ╭──╮ │ Level 99
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│ ╰──╯ │ "I put a spell
│ ╲──╱ │ on your DNS."
╰───────╯ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ █ ▀▄ ▄▀█ █ █▀▄▀█ █ PIXEL-PIG █ ▄█▀▀▀█▄█ 8-BIT EDITION █ ██ ▀ ██ █ █ █▄▄▄█ █ "INSERT DOMAIN █ ▀▀▀ █ TO CONTINUE" ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
[ TERMINAL.EXE — Interactive Oink Shell ]
PORK-OS Interactive Shell v1.0
Type HELP for available commands.
[ ALBUM.EXE — The Porkbun Pig: A Life in Photos ]
From dial-up to the metaverse, our pig has seen it all.
╭──────────────────╮ │ ╭────╮ │ │ │◉ ◉│ ┌──┐ │ │ │ oo │ │::│ │ │ ╰─┬──╯ │__│ │ │ │ ╔══════╗│ │ ╭─┴─╮ ║ AOL ║│ │ │ │ ║ v3.0 ║│ │ ╰───╯ ╚══════╝│ ╰──────────────────╯
"You've Got Oink!"
Baby pig discovers the internet via AOL dial-up. Immediately tries to register coolpig.com. It was taken.
╭──────────────────╮ │ ★ UNDER ★ │ │ CONSTRUCTION │ │ ╭────╮ ⚒ │ │ │◉ ◉│ /web/ │ │ │ oo │ ring/ │ │ ╰─┬──╯ next │ │ ♪ ─┤ ♪ ♪ │ │ [MIDI PLAYS] │ │ visitor #000042 │ ╰──────────────────╯
"GeoPorkCities"
The pig builds their first website. Features: animated GIF background, auto-playing MIDI, a hit counter, and Comic Sans. Beautiful.
╭──────────────────╮ │ ╭────╮ │ │ │◉ ◉│ ╭───╮ │ │ │ oo │ │ 📱│ │ │ ╰─┬──╯ │top│ │ │ ╭─────┤ │ 8 │ │ │ │MyPig│ ╰───╯ │ │ │Space│ │ │ │ .com│ *oink* │ │ ╰─────╯ │ ╰──────────────────╯
"The MyPigSpace Era"
Pig gets a flip phone and a MySpace page. Top 8 friends are all other pigs. Profile song: "Oink In Da Club" by 50 Pork.
╭──────────────────╮ │ ╔══════════════╗│ │ ║ PORKBUN ║│ │ ║ EST. 2014 ║│ │ ╚══════════════╝│ │ ╭────╮ │ │ │◉ ◉│ ♥ │ │ │ oo │/ │ │ ╰─┬──╯ │ │ "domains for │ │ everyone!" │ ╰──────────────────╯
"The Porkbun Is Born"
Our pig finds their true calling: making domain registration affordable, simple, and actually fun. The rest is internet history.
╭──────────────────╮ │ ╭────╮ 🤖 │ │ │◉ ◉│ "hello" │ │ │ oo │ AI pal │ │ ╰─┬──╯ │ │ ╭──┤ ╭───────╮ │ │ │🎮│ │PORK-OS│ │ │ │VR│ │ v1.0 │ │ │ ╰──╯ ╰───────╯ │ │ LIVING THE DREAM │ ╰──────────────────╯
"Present Day"
Pig codes with AI, games in VR, and still registers domains at unbeatable prices. Some things never change. Some things get better.
╭──────────────────╮ │ · ✦ · ✧ · │ │ ✧ ╭────╮ ✦ │ │ │◉ ◉│ │ │ · │ oo │ · │ │ ╰─┬──╯ ✧ │ │ ╔═══╧═══╗ │ │ ║QUANTUM║ · │ │ ║DOMAINS║ │ │ ╚═══════╝ ✦ │ ╰──────────────────╯
"The Future"
Year 2099: Porkbun now sells quantum domain names across parallel dimensions. Price? Still cheaper than the other guys.
[ NEWSFEED.EXE — The New Pork Times ]
BREAKING: Local Pig Registers 10,000th Domain, Says "I Can Stop Whenever I Want"
A local pig was seen registering yet another .com domain at 3 AM, bringing their total to an estimated 10,000 domains. "It's not an addiction," the pig insisted while browsing available .io names. "Porkbun just makes it too easy and too cheap. This is their fault, really." Friends and family staged an intervention, but were distracted when they learned .dev domains were on sale.
DNS Propagation Delays Blamed on Mercury Being in Retrograde
Internet astrologers confirm what sysadmins have long suspected: DNS propagation times are directly correlated with planetary alignment. "When Mercury is in retrograde, nameservers just vibe differently," explained one horoscope-certified network engineer.
Review: Pork-OS v1.0 Might Be the Best Operating System Nobody Asked For
In a world dominated by Windows and macOS, a scrappy upstart pig-themed OS has entered the chat. "It boots with oinks, the file system is organized by farm sections, and the default wallpaper is a sunset over a domain registration page," our reviewer notes. "10/10 — it has a little something for everyone." We're giving it the coveted Pork-tacu Editor's Choice award.
Top 10 Domain Names That Sound Like Video Game Bosses
#1: darkfiredragon.gg, #2: ultimatevoid.io, #3: shadowbane.dev — "These domains go HARD," writes our listicle expert. "Imagine getting an email from someone@chaosblade.gg. That person has definitely beaten Elden Ring at level 1. Register yours on Porkbun before someone else claims your ultimate gamer identity."
Porkbun Pig Speedruns Domain Registration in 47 Seconds, New World Record
In a stunning display of oink-hand coordination, the Porkbun Pig registered a new .com domain in just 47 seconds — from homepage to checkout confirmation. "The key is pre-loading your payment info and having your domain name ready," the pig explained during their post-run analysis on PorkTube. Skeptics claim the run used tool-assisted snout (TAS), but the pig insists it was all natural talent and low, low Porkbun prices.
Competitive Domain Squatting Now Recognized as Official Esport
The International Domain Athletics Federation (IDAF) has officially recognized competitive domain registration as an esport. Teams of 5 will compete to register the most creative domains in a 10-minute window. Porkbun has been named the official registrar sponsor. "We've been training for this our entire lives," said Team Snout's captain.
[ SOCIAL.EXE — Pork Social Network ]
[ README.TXT — The Pork-OS Manifesto ]
In the beginning, there was the internet. And it was formless, and void of affordable domain names.
Then came Porkbun — a scrappy little registrar with a pig mascot and a mission: make the web accessible, affordable, and actually fun.
The Porkbun Pig isn't just a logo. It's a statement. It says: "We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we take YOUR website very seriously." In a world of corporate registrars with forgettable branding, Porkbun chose a pig. A delightful, snout-forward, unapologetically charming pig.
PORK-OS reimagines that pig as the heart of a retro operating system — a world where every boot sequence oinks, every file path leads to something delicious, and your domain name is just a REGISTER.EXE away.
Because the internet should feel like home. And home should have a pig in it.
Built with love, pig puns, and too much coffee.
A Basement OS production for the Porkbun Creative Competition 2026.
[ SYSINFO.EXE ]
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