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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Extension stats

By: aaron.janse

Users: 295

-4

Rating: 5.00

(7)

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

Creation date: 2020-04-10

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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

Size: 3.89K

Ranking

# 49,685 ▲ 297

Other rankings

#12851 in Tools ▼ 139 #76 in wikipedia keyword 5 #133 in wiki keyword 2 ▼ 15

Other platforms

Search Wikipedia (v7.0)

4.25

(71) 13,163+

DNS over Wikipedia (v0.0.5)

5.00

(1) 125

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Wikipedia keeps track of official URLs for popular websites. With DNS over Wikipedia installed, domains ending with .idk are resolved by searching Wikipedia and extracting the relevant URL from the infobox.

Example:

Type scihub.idk/ in the browser address bar
Observe redirect to https://sci-hub.tw

Written by Aaron Janse and Vihan Bhargava.

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.