| ▲ | rconti 5 days ago | |
Did putty.org once link to the putty software? Or an alternative SSH client? Why did the site ever become popular? I'm trying to grok this, but all of the posts sort of obliquely refer to things that happened in the past (even the old HN links here), rather than explicitly just explain what the hell happened. | ||
| ▲ | Macha 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
It used to link to Putty _and_ to the domain owner's competing software: https://web.archive.org/web/20170822083048/http://www.putty.... The domain owner seems to feel he was providing a service to putty by providing the short domain name and feels slighted that they are moving to have their own now that he is taking actions that they find more objectionable than just also linking to his competitor, but to be honest it always seemed some unethical squatting to me, based on the Putty devs not having the time to complete a UDRP process. | ||