geoname webservice access issue

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.NET3.5

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Hi,

I'm trying to access Country information using geonames webservice. When I type the url in the browser, i'm getting the output in xml format but same url is not accessible from the code.

Url is: http://ws.geonames.org/countryInfo?lang=it&country=DE[^]

code:

XElement rootXml = XElement.Load("http://ws.geonames.org/countryInfo?lang=it&country=DE");

var Countries = from C in rootXml.Elements()
                select new
                {
                  Code = (string)C.Element("countryCode"),
                  Name = (string)C.Element("countryName")
                };

foreach (var x in Countries)
  Console.WriteLine("{0} {1}", x.Code, x.Name);

Console.ReadKey();

Error that i'm getting when the project is executed:
The remote name could not be resolved: 'ws.geonames.org'

Any help would be appreciated.