Simon TathamAug 14, 2025

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

https://putty.software/

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.

Show threadDurandalAug 14, 2025
@simontatham NCSC have for some reason blocked it on GovWifi, which seems like an overreaction!
Show threadSimon Tatham

@durandal how strange!

Perhaps just because it's a brand new domain and their blocking system is automatically suspicious of new things?

Aug 14, 2025 at 2:20pmWeb
Show threadSimon TathamAug 14, 2025

@durandal or perhaps because PuTTY landing pages are now considered suspicious after putty.org went rogue, so a new one is automatically suspect?

The real PuTTY website at chiark has a news item on the front page linking to putty.software and confirming that it's really ours. So if you need to raise an unblocking request with anyone, that might be a way to convince them that this isn't another putty.org, without them having to trust the text saying so on putty.software _itself_.

Show threadDec [{()}]Aug 15, 2025
@simontatham @durandal
You could also link to putty.software from your profile here (and link back with a rel=me) to verify it some more.