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.

@simontatham @schmidt_fu

That runs counter to what the FAQ says: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-putty-org

How certain can we be certain that this is not another attempt at tricking people?

PuTTY FAQ

@simontatham @schmidt_fu

Uhm… Nevermind this. I just realized who I’m talking to. 😅

@DevWouter @schmidt_fu for extra verification, there's a news item on the front page of the current main PuTTY website acknowledging that putty.software is ours.

I totally understand people being distrustful, given things that have already happened!

Maybe it would be useful to also mention the new domain in the FAQ - A.9.1-A.9.3? The answers seem to be confusing to some people on Hacker News, at least :-)
@asjo @DevWouter @schmidt_fu yes, I've just been editing the FAQ this morning. The revised version should go up tonight, as part of the build that also bakes a copy of it into a signed PuTTY help file.
👍 (I was thinking that it might be part of a larger process to update, but then again, it looks like a pretty plain webpage ;-))