Whois & Analysis for porkbun.com

A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity that manages the reservation of Internet domain names.

A domain name registrar must be accredited by a generic top-level domain (gTLD) registry and/or a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry.

The management is done in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a nonprofit organization that is responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.

ICANN performs the actual technical maintenance work of the central Internet address pools and DNS root zone registries pursuant to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function contract.

The contract regarding the IANA stewardship functions between ICANN and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the United States Department of Commerce ended on October 1, 2016, formally transitioning the functions to the global multistakeholder community.

Portland is a port and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

It is in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

The city covers and had an estimated population of 632,309 in 2015, making it the 26th most populous city in the United States.

Approximately 2,389,228 people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), the 23rd most populous MSA in the United States.

Its Combined Statistical Area (CSA) ranks 17th with a population of 3,022,178.

Roughly 60% of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.