A step-by-step guide to moving my domain registration from WordPress.com to Porkbun, motivated by my unease over recent WordPress drama. I cover the transfer process—including a required 60-day wait, disabling the transfer lock, and a gotcha where private registration had to be turned off before the authorization code would work—plus copying DNS records and switching nameservers. In a closing update, I note that WordPress later blocked external domain pointing, pushing me toward self-hosting...
I point a Porkbun-registered domain at a BinaryLane VPS by keeping Porkbun as the name server and updating the A record to the VPS’s IP address. Along the way, I include a short primer on DNS resolution and authoritative name servers, plus a mention of my longer-term plan to use the VPS as a Wireguard tunnel to a home cluster. The end result is the domain serving a test page from Nginx running in a container on the VPS...
