diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 83e83d058..d41875351 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ chardet
 requests
 hiredis
 ip_address
-sectxt
 colorlog
 setuptools_scm
 sentry-sdk
@@ -61,6 +60,10 @@ whitenoise
 # Needed in celery/kombu, but not installed automatically?
 cached-property
 
+# sectxt from github, as the 0.9.4 on pypi can not refer to the fixed version of pgpy
+# can be fixed when https://github.com/SecurityInnovation/PGPy/pull/467 is merged and a new sectxt is released
+https://github.com/DigitalTrustCenter/sectxt/archive/refs/tags/0.9.4.tar.gz
+
 # our custom fork
 https://github.com/internetstandards/python-whois/releases/download/v1.0.0/pythonwhois-internet.nl-1.0.0.tar.gz
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8a3428731..5208aeedc 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ requests==2.32.0
     #   sectxt
 rjsmin==1.2.1
     # via -r requirements.in
-sectxt @ https://github.com/mxsasha/sectxt/archive/refs/tags/0.8.3_leap.tar.gz
+sectxt @ https://github.com/DigitalTrustCenter/sectxt/archive/refs/tags/0.9.4.tar.gz
     # via -r requirements.in
 selenium==3.141.0
     # via -r requirements.in
@@ -218,6 +218,8 @@ urllib3==2.0.7
     #   sentry-sdk
 uwsgi==2.0.22
     # via -r requirements.in
+validators==0.23.0
+    # via sectxt
 vine==5.0.0
     # via
     #   amqp