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 threadkajer :notverified:Aug 14, 2025

@simontatham

The .software tld is a garbage tld and takes away credibility.

Show threadSimon TathamAug 14, 2025
@kajer you're the first person to suggest that to me – nobody mentioned it in the previous thread, when possible domains were discussed.
Show threadkajer :notverified:

@simontatham

any domain that is a glamour domain like .xyz .software .quirky is always a red flag for me. May as well be .zip

No incentive to include a comport dropdown list eh?

https://infosec.exchange/@kajer/113155686119275758

kajer (@[email protected])

Hey, people who make PUTTY terminal... how about a nice way to enumerate com ports rather than making me open device manager to see what random com port my usb-serial adapter was given

Infosec Exchange
Aug 14, 2025 at 9:30pmWeb
Show threadmav Aug 14, 2025
@kajer
Why?
@simontatham
Show threadJdeBPAug 16, 2025

@mav @kajer @simontatham

One could also ask why this red flag is not seen for the exchange. "glamour domain". Or for io. and nu. for that matter.

In reality, this lopsided mental model has its roots in ICANN digging its heels in during the 1990s. The fact that ICANN dug its heels in back then is reflective of the idea that many people do not share the idea that ccTLDs and gTLDs are somehow more credible than anything else, especially as we've watched many of the antics played with them over the decades, giving lie to that notion.

Hell, we only have uk. itself because the United Kingdom academic community domain-squatted in 1985. (-:

#DomainNameSystem