Supported provider
Porkbun DNS, in the same place as everything else.
Does DNSMentor support Porkbun?
Yes. DNSMentor manages Porkbun DNS through its API, showing its zones alongside the other 25 supported providers in a single estate view. Every Porkbun change goes through the same 56 pre-flight checks, approval policy, independent verification and tamper-evident audit trail as every other provider.
Connecting Porkbun
- Create the credential in Porkbun porkbun.com → Account → API Access (porkbun.com/account/api) → Create API Key. This is the public half of the pair and starts 'pk1_'. Copy both halves when the key is created: the secret is shown once and cannot be retrieved again. Use the gear icon beside the key to restrict it to the domains this connection manages and to DNSMentor's egress addresses — an unrestricted key can act on every domain in the account.
- Add the connection in DNSMentor Go to Admin → Providers & API keys, choose Porkbun, and paste the credential. DNSMentor stores it encrypted and strips it from every log and export.
- Sync the estate DNSMentor discovers every zone the Porkbun account holds and imports every record in them. This is a read operation — nothing is written to any zone.
- Group by client and start working Assign the imported domains to client portfolios, and the estate view, health scoring, checks and audit trail apply from that point on.
What Porkbun asks you for
The exact fields DNSMentor needs, and where in Porkbun to create them. Every secret is encrypted at rest and stripped by name from logs, exports and the audit trail.
API Key secret porkbun.com → Account → API Access (porkbun.com/account/api) → Create API Key. This is the public half of the pair and starts 'pk1_'. Copy both halves when the key is created: the secret is shown once and cannot be retrieved again. Use the gear icon beside the key to restrict it to the domains this connection manages and to DNSMentor's egress addresses — an unrestricted key can act on every domain in the account.
Secret API Key secret The second half of the same pair, shown once at porkbun.com/account/api when the key is created and starts 'sk1_'. If it was not saved, delete the key and create a new one. Separately, each domain has an 'API ACCESS' toggle on porkbun.com/account/domains that is OFF by default — a domain with it off is invisible to this connection no matter how the key is configured.
The sharp edge in Porkbun's API
Every provider API has one behaviour that catches integrations out. This is Porkbun's, and DNSMentor's adapter is written around it — the sort of thing you would otherwise discover during a migration.
What you get on top of the Porkbun console
One estate, not one provider
Porkbun zones sit beside every other provider your clients came with, grouped by the client who pays for them and searchable in one place.
56 checks before apply
The Porkbun console will accept a second SPF record or an MX pointing at an address without comment. DNSMentor will not.
Approval and audit
A second pair of eyes where policy requires it, and a hash-chained record of who changed what — neither of which a provider console offers.
Porkbun questions
Can I manage Porkbun DNS alongside my other providers?
Yes. DNSMentor connects Porkbun through its API and shows its zones in the same estate view as every other provider you connect — 26 are supported in total. Your engineers work in one interface instead of switching between provider portals, and the same checks, approval policy and audit trail apply regardless of which provider a domain happens to be with.
What credentials does DNSMentor need for Porkbun?
DNSMentor needs API Key, Secret API Key for Porkbun. porkbun.com → Account → API Access (porkbun.com/account/api) → Create API Key. This is the public half of the pair and starts 'pk1_'. Copy both halves when the key is created: the secret is shown once and cannot be retrieved again. Use the gear icon beside the key to restrict it to the domains this connection manages and to DNSMentor's egress addresses — an unrestricted key can act on every domain in the account.
Does DNSMentor move my zones away from Porkbun?
No. Your zones stay hosted at Porkbun and remain authoritative there. DNSMentor reads and writes through the Porkbun API, so nothing about your resolution path changes, and if you stop using DNSMentor the zones carry on exactly as they are.
Does DNSMentor validate Porkbun changes before applying them?
Yes. All 56 checks run against the zone as it would exist after the change, whichever provider hosts it. The change is then simulated, routed for approval if policy requires it, written through the Porkbun API after re-reading live state, and independently verified in public DNS afterwards.
Other providers DNSMentor manages
Connect Porkbun in about five minutes.
Paste one credential, sync, and see every zone in that account. It is a read operation — nothing is written until somebody presses apply.
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