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Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by oguz-ismail »

recursive wrote: post #27
oguz-ismail wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Terminal Have they fixed font rendering yet? cmd.exe looks better on my laptop

The first time I ever saw it, the text already looked better than cmd.exe via conhost.

https://imgur.com/a/qA1fr71

Something wrong with my eyes? Doesn't cmd.exe look smoother in this screenshot?

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by epigramx »

userbinator wrote: post #19

Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.

Not a big deal, because they tend to be trusted eventually by the search engines and the language models, though I don't trust much the latter to tbh.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by tanepiper »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #17
neilv wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That looks like an open and shut ICANN trademark case to me. https://web.archive.org/web/20250728091154/https://www.putty...

They publish (right at the bottom of that page) the emails where a journalist asked them why they're squatting the PuTTY domain and somehow think they make the journalist look bad?! https://web.archive.org/web/20250728091156/https://www.putty...

The guy who runs putty.org is absolutely the South Park basement guy

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by neuralkoi »

userbinator wrote: post #19

Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.

I agree, there's some good alternatives available too of about the same length (if you include name + TLD):

    puttyclient.com
    puttyofficial.com
    puttytools.com
    puttydownloads.com
    downloadputty.org

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by throaway920181 »

pharrington wrote: post #20
josephcsible wrote: post #2

This seemed suspicious at first, but https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (the original official site) confirms it's real.

The man himself also posted about it on his social media https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115025974777386803

Cool, but hachyderm.io also is not a trusted/recognizable domain for me. Trust issues all the way down!

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by akoboldfrying »

TZubiri wrote: post #28
userbinator wrote: post #19

Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.

Certificate by Let's Encrypt, issued to "putty.software" no other info. Sometimes I feel like we are training users to disregard safety mechanisms for phishing. Using putty was never the pinnacle of professionalism and open source auditing anyway, it's just a binary you download on windows before you hear the gospel of linux and ssh.

> Using putty was never the pinnacle of professionalism and open source auditing anyway

Huh? The source is available on the original site and TTBOMK always has been, you're welcome to compile it yourself.

Re: PuTTY has a new website

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Post by crossroadsguy »

neuralkoi wrote: post #35
userbinator wrote: post #19

Somehow, these new long TLDs just feel spammy and "fake" and I usually ignore them when they show up in search results. Unfortunately the .com, .net and .org are already taken.

I agree, there's some good alternatives available too of about the same length (if you include name + TLD): puttyclient.com puttyofficial.com puttytools.com puttydownloads.com downloadputty.org

All of these are better than and I assume cheaper than that .software one.

Even puttytelnet.com/org/net is available.

Hell the puttytel.net is available

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