diff --git a/botcmd.py b/botcmd.py
index c2c4c18..ea7c68d 100644
--- a/botcmd.py
+++ b/botcmd.py
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def handle_message(*, prefix, message, nick, channel, irc):
 		if possible_titles_left == 0: break
 
 		try:
-			with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout = 1) as response:
+			with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout = 5) as response:
 				if response.info().get_content_type() == 'text/html':
 					# First 4KiB of a page should be enough for any <title>
 					# Turns out it's not, so download 64KiB