This has never changed.
Just because someone likes to use short circuit routing in their head doesn't make putty.org the official site for putty.
That is the same attitude as telling the Keepass folks that https://keepass.info/ is wrong...
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Maybe also have a look at the putty FAQ, especially 9.3
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#...
From that doc:
A.9.3 Would you like me to register you a nicer domain name?
No, thank you. Even if you can find one (most of them seem to have been registered already, by people who didn't ask whether we actually wanted it before they applied), we're happy with the PuTTY web site being exactly where it is. It's not hard to find (just type ‘putty’ into google.com and we're the first link returned) ...
Searching for "putty ssh" on both DDG and Google now return putty.org as their top result.
1: putty.org
2: "People also ask, What is putty and why is it used?" then 4 other questions about the material putty taking up most of the page
3: Videos "How to use Putty to SSH on Windows"
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4. Video "How to Use Putty?"
5: Video "How to SSH Without a Password with Putty"
6: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ the actual site
That's the problem when the metrics are focused on how the company is doing and not how the user is doing, but when there is barely any competition that is not dogshit you don't have to care about how the customer feels because they can't go anywhere anyway so you can feel free to extract the maximum profit from them.
That's also why Google, Facebook, Microsoft and OpenAI are all so hellbent on AI: they all want to be the one and only place that you interact with to get answers to your questions so that as much of your "eyeball time" as possible (and with it, ad income) stays in their respective walled gardens.
There's software called PuTTY, and non-technical or less technical people, or even technical people who are running on autopilot, might reasonably expect that it's hosted on putty.org.
They just need to be more careful.
Here's an analogy.
Even capable programmers keep screwing up when using C and end up with memory leaks and security vulnerabilities. But that's no reason to stop using it ... people should just be more careful.
No analogy is perfect, every example has problems and loopholes, but this seems a reasonable one. Just as people should use programming languages that make it harder to make mistakes, so companies should not behave in deceptive manners, and when they do, they should be called out on it.
Similarly, telcos keep accepting and showing any cooked up caller ID over their SS7, and when someone gets scammed because they trusted the caller ID, the messaging I hear always actually is "people should just be more careful."
Same as banks requiring only card number to give someone money from the account. "you shoul be more careful with your card number."
It is sad to hear the level of victim blaming from the big industry.
Therefore I think you are missing the point with your analogy.
putty.org has this on their page:
> On July 13, 2025, Bitvise was contacted by a political interrogator posing as a journalist.
They are doing a great job of making themselves look like assholes.
The results shows as:
Download PuTTY - a free SSH and telnet client for Windows.
PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source...Still there were multiple requests to the Keepass project to change that domain to "a proper" domain like keepass.com
Is my intent more clear with that second try to explain? If not, I'm more then welcome to talk about a better way to phrase it :)
Suggest: That is the same attitude as critics telling the Keepass maintainer to migrate the (official) keepass.info domain to a .com...