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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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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Aug 14, 2025

@simontatham

I've commented for like a decade that it doesn't matter where the Putty web site is, it was the most reliable Google search in the world that searching for "putty" would lead to pages of hits that would get you there (and if you ever wanted to search for putty as a form of cement, you were out of luck).

But Google is bad now so this is good.

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Simon Tatham

@richpuchalsky someone sent me a screenshot just recently showing the chiark web site above putty.org in the Google search results. Apparently putty.org's "pivot to antivax" stunt burned a lot of its ill-gotten pagerank.

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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Aug 14, 2025

@simontatham

If you search in various ways for "putty wiki" it's wiki's preferred meaning of putty as well. The stuff that people use to fix window panes is relegated to a disambiguation page.