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Claude Porkbun connectorWhat Claude can do in your Porkbun account.
The Claude Porkbun connector exposes 61 tools: 30 read your domains, 28 change or buy, 3 are undocumented. Here: what Claude can look up, what it can change or delete, what it asks first, where the sources disagree on buying, and who can switch it off.
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What changes when Claude runs your Porkbun account
Checking a name, reading its DNS, changing a record or publishing a static page each takes its own screen in the Porkbun dashboard. With this connector you say what you want in one sentence and Claude calls the tools itself. It is also a sensitive connector: Porkbun says plainly that DNS mistakes take sites and mail offline, and that registrations spend real money.
A domain checked, then pointed. You have a name in mind: check_domain says whether it is free and what it costs, and once the domain is in your account, create_dns_record points it at a server. Whether your install can also buy it is the open question below.
DNS reviewed before anything breaks. list_dns_records shows every record of a zone with its identifier, and update_dns_record changes the one that points at the wrong host.
A static site shipped without an FTP client. On a domain that already has Secure Static Hosting, deploy_site uploads the files and list_hosting_files shows what is there.
Now what the directory sheet does not say. The sheet lists a desktop extension whose tools include buying, while Porkbun's own page calls the directory version the one without purchases: the section on limits sets both side by side, and this page promises neither. Porkbun adds guardrails of its own, such as dry runs on billable or destructive calls and a monthly API spend limit. Nothing runs on its own: no tool fires when a domain nears expiry. For that kind of background job you need an automation tool, a different job; the Integrations hub gathers that side.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while connecting Porkbun.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already own, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do in that account. Claude picks the ones it needs; the directory sheet lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The service's own screen where you hand Claude the access it will use. Granted once per person, and it can be taken back.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with something that changes your account, shown in the chat when it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant such as Claude talk to a service outside it.
Setting up the Claude Porkbun connector in three steps
- 01
Find Porkbun in Claude
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize, then Connectors, and look for Porkbun in the list. The directory sheet describes it as a desktop extension, which installs on Claude Desktop. On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables it first.
- 02
Connect from its row
Click Connect on the Porkbun row. If the extension then asks for something, such as Porkbun API keys, complete that step. If the link breaks later, Disconnect the connector, then connect it again.
- 03
Read what you are granting
If an authorization screen from the service appears, read it before you accept. It belongs to Porkbun, not to Claude, and it is what decides how far the access reaches. Porkbun also lets you restrict a key to given domains and source IPs.
The 61 tools, split by what they do
Porkbun gives Claude 61 tools: 30 that read your account, 28 that change something in it, and 3 no official source describes.
Three groups: what Claude reads, what it changes or buys, and what no official source describes. Names stay exactly as Claude displays them.
- 30 read
- 28 write
- 3 not documented
Tools index
- ping
- check_domain
- get_registration_requirements
- get_pricing
- list_marketplace
- list_domains
- get_domain
- get_balance
- get_api_settings
- get_nameservers
- list_dns_records
- list_dnssec_records
- list_url_forwards
- list_glue_records
- list_transfers
- get_transfer_status
- get_ssl_bundle
- get_contacts
- list_hosting_plans
- get_hosting
- list_hosting_files
- mock_call
- list_doc_topics
- read_doc
- search_docs
- get_webhook_event_types
- list_webhooks
- get_webhook
- list_webhook_deliveries
- get_webhook_delivery
- register_domain
- renew_domain
- transfer_domain
- update_auto_renew
- update_nameservers
- update_contacts
- create_hosting
- deploy_site
- delete_hosting_file
- make_hosting_dir
- delete_hosting
- create_sandbox_key
- create_dns_record
- update_dns_record
- delete_dns_record
- create_dnssec_record
- delete_dnssec_record
- create_url_forward
- delete_url_forward
- create_glue_record
- update_glue_record
- delete_glue_record
- create_webhook
- update_webhook
- rotate_webhook_secret
- test_webhook
- resend_webhook
- delete_webhook
What Claude reads (30)
30 toolsThirty tools that look at domains, records, hosting, webhooks and docs without changing them.
ping
Checks that the connection to the Porkbun API works and that the credentials in use are accepted, before Claude tries anything heavier.
check_domain
Tells you whether one domain is free to register and what it costs, so the answer comes from Porkbun rather than from a guess. Porkbun expresses every money parameter in cents, and the parameter name says so.
get_registration_requirements
Returns what a given extension demands at registration, expressed as a JSON Schema, so Claude knows which details the registry expects for that extension before anything is filed.
get_pricing
Fetches Porkbun's current prices for every supported extension in one call, which lets Claude compare extensions side by side instead of checking them one at a time.
list_marketplace
Browses the domains offered for sale on the Porkbun marketplace. Porkbun specifies that this is the aftermarket: names owned by other users, not new registrations.
list_domains
Lists the domains held in your Porkbun account, the starting point before Claude looks at any one of them in detail with the domain, DNS or hosting tools.
get_domain
Returns the metadata of one domain: status, creation and expiry dates, security lock, WHOIS privacy, auto-renew and API access opt-in. It covers only one name at a time.
get_balance
Shows the credit available on your Porkbun account. Porkbun says purchases spend this prepaid credit, and that your card is only charged on a top-up you approve or an auto top-up you set up.
get_api_settings
Reads the API spend controls of your account: monthly spend limit, low-balance alert threshold, auto top-up settings and what the API has spent in the current month.
get_nameservers
Shows which nameservers a domain in your account currently uses, which tells Claude where its DNS is actually served before it looks at any record.
list_dns_records
Lists every DNS record stored for a domain in your account, each with the numeric identifier Porkbun gives it. That identifier is what Claude needs later to point at one precise record.
list_dnssec_records
Shows the DNSSEC DS records currently submitted to the registry for a domain, so Claude can tell you what the registry holds for that name today.
list_url_forwards
Returns all the URL redirection rules configured on a domain, each with its identifier, so Claude can tell you where each address leads.
list_glue_records
Shows the glue records of a domain, host by host, as they stand at Porkbun, so Claude can read back the addresses tied to each host name.
list_transfers
Gathers the inbound domain transfers in progress or recently made on your account, so Claude can report where each one stands in a single answer.
get_transfer_status
Reports the status of one specific inbound transfer for a domain, which is narrower than the full list and useful when a single name is the question.
get_ssl_bundle
Retrieves the free SSL certificate bundle Porkbun issues for a domain, ready to install on a server.
get_contacts
Returns the four contacts of a domain, registrant, admin, tech and billing, with their current field values: name, organization, address, phone and email.
list_hosting_plans
Lists the hosting plans available through the API with their price in cents, billing interval, trial length and features. Those amounts in cents are what Porkbun expects back at provisioning time.
get_hosting
Reports the Secure Static Hosting status of a domain, plan, server, trial, expiry and auto-renew, or says that it has none.
list_hosting_files
Lists the file and folder names in a domain's static hosting space, optionally under a given path. It shows names only, not file contents.
mock_call
Returns a realistic example response for any API endpoint, without credentials and without touching your account. Porkbun says no setup is needed for it.
list_doc_topics
Lists the available topics of the Porkbun API documentation, so Claude can pick the right page before reading it with read_doc.
read_doc
Reads one page of the Porkbun documentation as text, and Porkbun says it works without any API key.
search_docs
Searches the full Porkbun API reference by keyword and returns the most relevant sections; it also needs no key, according to Porkbun.
get_webhook_event_types
Lists the event types a webhook endpoint can be subscribed to on Porkbun. It is a catalogue: nothing gets subscribed by reading it.
list_webhooks
Lists the webhook endpoints registered on the authenticated account, so Claude can tell you what is already wired up there. Each endpoint's detail is then one get_webhook call away.
get_webhook
Fetches one webhook endpoint by its number, with its signing secret and its delivery health, consecutive failures included.
list_webhook_deliveries
Lists recent webhook delivery attempts, newest first, across all endpoints or filtered to a single one, so Claude can trace what was sent and when.
get_webhook_delivery
Retrieves a single delivery by its id, with the full JSON payload that went out, or is about to, and its delivery status.
What Claude changes (28)
28 toolsTwenty-eight tools that alter your account, several of them spending credit. No source spells out their confirmation, so the general rule below applies.
register_domain
Approval: see the ruleRegisters a new domain on the authenticated account, and Porkbun flags that it spends account credit.
renew_domain
Approval: see the ruleRenews a domain you already hold, and Porkbun flags that it spends account credit.
transfer_domain
Approval: see the ruleStarts the transfer of an external domain into Porkbun, and Porkbun flags that it spends account credit.
update_auto_renew
Approval: see the ruleTurns automatic renewal on or off for a domain in your account.
update_nameservers
Approval: see the ruleReplaces the nameservers of a domain in your account, which changes where its DNS is answered.
update_contacts
Approval: see the ruleEdits the contacts of a domain, the registrant, admin, tech and billing entries that get_contacts reads.
create_hosting
Approval: see the ruleProvisions hosting for a domain in the account, either Secure Static Hosting or Cloud for WordPress, a managed WordPress site, depending on the plan chosen.
deploy_site
Approval: see the ruleUploads static files to a domain's Secure Static Hosting, which puts the new version of the site online.
delete_hosting_file
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a file, or an empty folder, at a given path in a domain's static hosting space.
make_hosting_dir
Approval: see the ruleCreates a folder, plus any missing parent folders, at a path in the static hosting space.
delete_hosting
Approval: see the ruleCancels Secure Static Hosting for a domain; Porkbun then schedules the teardown itself.
create_sandbox_key
Approval: see the ruleCreates a free sandbox API key instantly, without credentials or approval, for rehearsing against an isolated environment.
create_dns_record
Approval: see the ruleAdds a DNS record to a domain in your account, such as an address record pointing at a server.
update_dns_record
Approval: see the ruleModifies an existing DNS record, identified by the number the record listing gives it.
delete_dns_record
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a single DNS record, again identified by its number from the listing.
create_dnssec_record
Approval: see the ruleSubmits a DS record to the registry for a domain, which is how DNSSEC gets switched on there.
delete_dnssec_record
Approval: see the ruleWithdraws a DS record from the registry, identified by its key tag.
create_url_forward
Approval: see the ruleAdds a forwarding rule so that an address on your domain sends visitors to another URL.
delete_url_forward
Approval: see the ruleRemoves a forwarding rule by its identifier from the forward listing.
create_glue_record
Approval: see the ruleCreates a glue record for a host on a domain, linking that host name to its addresses.
update_glue_record
Approval: see the ruleReplaces the addresses attached to an existing glue record.
delete_glue_record
Approval: see the ruleDeletes the glue record of a given host on a domain.
create_webhook
Approval: see the ruleAdds a webhook endpoint to your account, which will then receive signed Porkbun events.
update_webhook
Approval: see the ruleUpdates an existing webhook endpoint registered on your account.
rotate_webhook_secret
Approval: see the ruleGenerates a new signing secret for a webhook endpoint and returns the endpoint with that new secret.
test_webhook
Approval: see the ruleFires a test event at an endpoint to confirm it is reachable and that signature checks pass.
resend_webhook
Approval: see the ruleQueues a past delivery again so it reaches its endpoint a second time.
delete_webhook
Approval: see the ruleDeletes a webhook endpoint by its id; list_webhooks gives that id beforehand.
Undocumented (3)
3 toolsPorkbun publishes these three names with a two-word label and nothing more. No text says what they do, and we will not guess it from a name.
sandbox_topup
This name sits in the tool list, and Porkbun's manifest attaches a two-word label to it, sandbox only, without saying what the tool does. No other official text covers it, so this page stops there. Whatever it does, Claude's general approval rule applies to it.
sandbox_reset
Same silence for this one: the published manifest flags it as reserved to the sandbox and gives no description of its effect. Porkbun's page adds only that its hosted server leaves sandbox tools out. We will not fill the gap with a guess; the approvals section covers it.
sandbox_trigger_webhook
Listed by name, labelled sandbox only in the manifest, and described nowhere else among the sources we read. Reading its behaviour into the words of its name would be guesswork, which this page refuses. Treat it under the default approval rule, like any tool without documentation.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before any action it takes on an account on your behalf. The request shows up in the conversation at the moment it matters.
No source says whether Claude asks before a specific Porkbun tool, so that default rule covers all twenty-eight changing ones. Porkbun adds its own layer: every tool declares whether it only reads or destroys something so a client can prompt you before risky ones, billable and destructive calls take a dry run, and prices are written in cents so a prompt shows the real amount. On Team and Enterprise workspaces, owners can restrict what a connector may do for everyone.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows availability by plan. The answer, connector by connector, is not published anywhere: a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile, while desktop extensions install on Claude Desktop. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables a connector before members can use it. For the current state, check the Porkbun sheet in the official directory.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing starts when a domain nears expiry or a transfer stalls.
This connector has no Claude help article of its own; what we know comes from the directory sheet, Porkbun's page about its server and the manifest Porkbun publishes for the extension. The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise. The directory's verified badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic writes on every sheet that it does not control which tools a publisher exposes. Porkbun itself warns that several community servers wrap its API without being reviewed by it.
Can the Porkbun connector from Claude's directory buy domains?
- Claude directory sheet ↗October 2026A desktop extension whose 61 listed tools include register_domain, renew_domain and transfer_domain.
- Porkbun's page about its server ↗October 2026The publisher says the version in Claude's directory is its no-purchase endpoint, leaving out registering, renewing, transferring, new hosting, credit and auto-renew.
What this page followsThe two do not describe the same thing: the sheet lists a desktop extension with buying tools, Porkbun describes a hosted endpoint without them. Neither is dated more recently than the other, so neither wins here. Check which tools the connector you installed actually exposes on your own account before relying on either.
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