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Simon Tatham Aug 14, 2025

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.

But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.

I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.

If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!

PuTTY

Free software SSH client for Windows and also Unix, including an xterm-style terminal emulator.

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dmi 💽 Aug 14, 2025

@simontatham is anything gonna happen to https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ? that URL has been engraved in my brain ever since I was a teen

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Simon Tatham

@domi I'm certainly not planning to break it!

The current URL exists all over the place – in particular, it's baked into every current release of PuTTY itself. So it's really important that people going to that URL will still end up somewhere useful.

Most likely it'll end up as a 301 redirect to the new site, once the move has happened.