DNS over Wikipedia

Resolve .idk domains using the URL provided by the Wikipedia page for a given topic

DNS over Wikipedia: Resolve .idk domains using Wikipedia URLs

DNS over Wikipedia is a Chrome extension that allows users to resolve .idk domains by searching Wikipedia and extracting the relevant URL from the infobox. It helps users quickly access the official URLs of popular websites listed on Wikipedia.

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By: aaron.janse

Users: 273

Rating: 5.00

(7)

Version: 0.0.5 (Last updated: 2020-04-10)

Creation date: 2020-04-10

Permissions:

webRequest
webRequestBlocking
*://*.idk/*
https://en.wikipedia.org/*

Size: 3.89K

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 49,312 ▲ 403

Other rankings

#14086 in Tools ▲ 176 #88 in wikipedia keyword 10 #144 in wiki keyword 19 ▲ 15

Other platforms

Not available on Android

DNS over Wikipedia (v0.0.5)

115 5.00

(2)

Not available on Edge

User reviews

DNS translates a name into an IP address. This is not DNS per-se, it is just a search plugin for the url bar. If an analogy was needed with a network service perhaps this is more like a proxy redirector than DNS. Keep in mind: with this you will still be misdirected if your DNS/hosts file is pointing the name into a different IP than it should be.

WGHS Robotics, 2020-04-06

The entire code even is open source! This is insanity! (https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia)

Nicht Erik Uden, 2020-04-06

This is the most helpful and accurate extension I have! Due to extreme marketing these days you can never know if the website you're on is real or fake, yet with this extension I can finally be sure I'm getting on the right sites. For every person that's fearing to be phished, it will be a lot harder for that to happen with this extension.

Erik Uden, 2020-04-06

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DNS over Wikipedia requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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