Website is resolved to localhost, and thus browser is unable to connect to it

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My Fedora Workstation 35 is resolving the website gutenberg.org to localhost, and thus my browser is unable to connect to this site.

Why is that?

I attach ping and dump of /etc/hosts:

$ ping gutenberg.org
PING gutenberg.org (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
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My systemd-resolved is active:

$ systemctl is-active systemd-resolved
active

Flushing the DNS cache does not fix the problem:

$ sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches
$ ping gutenberg.org
PING gutenberg.org (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms
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Try with systemctl restart network-manager first. Hopefully it will reset your network settings.

Please also check cat /etc/resolv.conf value.

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What is the output of:

resolvectl status

And can you resolve it by using another DNS resolver, e.g:

nslookup gutenberg.org 9.9.9.9

Or:

dig @9.9.9.9 gutenberg.org
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What nameservers are you using? You may want to change them, restart networking and see if that makes a difference.

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