> The domain, long associated by users with PuTTY [...] a domain name that clearly and historically signals the PuTTY project
This seems a bit misleading. The domain has never, as far as I know, belonged to the project, so it can only have been "long associated" in the minds of users mistakenly trying to guess the URL and "historically" navigating to the wrong website.
> “The PuTTY project never had this domain”
Right.
> Search engines treat domain names like putty.org as authoritative.
Do they? Domain names "like" putty.org in what sense? Which search engines, by what mechanism?
This seems a bit misleading. The domain has never, as far as I know, belonged to the project, so it can only have been "long associated" in the minds of users mistakenly trying to guess the URL and "historically" navigating to the wrong website.
> “The PuTTY project never had this domain”
Right.
> Search engines treat domain names like putty.org as authoritative.
Do they? Domain names "like" putty.org in what sense? Which search engines, by what mechanism?