diff --git a/download_urls.yml b/download_urls.yml
index 1fc9868..75f971b 100644
--- a/download_urls.yml
+++ b/download_urls.yml
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
     count: 10000
 
 - url: 'https://ensembl.org/biomart/martservice?query=<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE Query><Query  virtualSchemaName = "default" formatter = "TSV" header = "0" uniqueRows = "0" count = "" datasetConfigVersion = "0.6" ><Dataset name = "hsapiens_gene_ensembl" interface = "default" ><Attribute name = "ensembl_gene_id" /><Attribute name = "ensembl_transcript_id" /><Attribute name = "entrezgene_id" /><Attribute name = "external_gene_name" /></Dataset></Query>'
-- url: 'https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/genenames/hgnc/json/hgnc_complete_set.json'
+- url: 'https://storage.googleapis.com/public-download-files/hgnc/json/json/hgnc_complete_set.json'
   skip_upstream_check: true  # does not work reliably in tests
   excerpt_strategy:
     strategy: manual
diff --git a/rules/work/genes/hgnc.smk b/rules/work/genes/hgnc.smk
index 088f4fa..bb573d7 100644
--- a/rules/work/genes/hgnc.smk
+++ b/rules/work/genes/hgnc.smk
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ rule genes_hgnc_download:  # -- Download the HGNC data
 
         wget --no-check-certificate \
             -O {output.json} \
-            https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/genenames/hgnc/json/hgnc_complete_set.json
+            https://storage.googleapis.com/public-download-files/hgnc/json/json/hgnc_complete_set.json
 
         md5sum {output.json} > {output.json_md5}
         """