diff --git a/pheweb/load/make_gene_aliases_sqlite3.py b/pheweb/load/make_gene_aliases_sqlite3.py
index 530c80786..da845c91c 100644
--- a/pheweb/load/make_gene_aliases_sqlite3.py
+++ b/pheweb/load/make_gene_aliases_sqlite3.py
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
 
 def get_genenamesorg_ensg_aliases_map(ensgs_to_consider: Iterable[str]) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
     ensgs_to_consider = set(ensgs_to_consider)
-    r = urllib.request.urlopen('http://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/genenames/new/json/non_alt_loci_set.json')
+    r = urllib.request.urlopen('https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/genenames/out_of_date_hgnc/json/non_alt_loci_set.json')
+
     data = r.read().decode('utf-8')
     ensg_to_aliases = {}
     for row in json.loads(data)['response']['docs']: