Fails to download from Gyfcat redirect [Errno 11001]

For gyfcat links that redirect to another website (for example, redgifs), downloading from the link does not work.

trying to download from the gyfcat link gives this error:

Error Downloading: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='apple-touch-icon.png', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x0000029E5AE15DC0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed'))

Running on Win10, RMD ver 3.1.5