diff --git a/src/network/got.ts b/src/network/got.ts
index fced30bfa0..3c574f3985 100644
--- a/src/network/got.ts
+++ b/src/network/got.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export type Got = {
     onProgress?: (downloaded: number, totalSize: number) => void,
     integrity?: string
   }): Promise<{}>,
-  getJSON<T>(url: string): Promise<T>,
+  getJSON<T>(url: string, registry: string): Promise<T>,
 }
 
 export type NpmRegistryClient = {
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ export default (
 
   const limit = pLimit(opts.networkConcurrency)
 
-  async function getJSON (url: string) {
+  async function getJSON (url: string, registry: string) {
     return limit(() => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
       const getOpts = {
-        auth: getCredentialsByURI(url),
+        auth: getCredentialsByURI(registry),
         fullMetadata: false,
       }
       client.get(url, getOpts, (err: Error, data: Object, raw: Object, res: HttpResponse) => {
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ export default (
     return limit(async () => {
       await mkdirp(path.dirname(saveto))
 
-      const auth = getCredentialsByURI(opts.registry || url)
+      const auth = opts.registry && getCredentialsByURI(opts.registry)
       // If a tarball is hosted on a different place than the manifest, only send
       // credentials on `alwaysAuth`
       const shouldAuth = auth && (
diff --git a/src/resolve/git.ts b/src/resolve/git.ts
index 710a221927..c8c8094cfe 100644
--- a/src/resolve/git.ts
+++ b/src/resolve/git.ts
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ async function tryResolveViaGitHubApi (
     'commits',
     spec.ref
   ].join('/')
-  const body = await got.getJSON<GitHubRepoResponse>(url)
+  // TODO: investigate what should be the correct registry path here
+  const body = await got.getJSON<GitHubRepoResponse>(url, url)
   return body.sha
 }
 
diff --git a/src/resolve/npm/loadPackageMeta.ts b/src/resolve/npm/loadPackageMeta.ts
index 29ddef1139..ed4a6da619 100644
--- a/src/resolve/npm/loadPackageMeta.ts
+++ b/src/resolve/npm/loadPackageMeta.ts
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ export default async function loadPkgMetaNonCached (
 
 async function fromRegistry (got: Got, spec: PackageSpec, registry: string) {
   const uri = toUri(spec, registry)
-  const meta = <PackageMeta>await got.getJSON(uri)
+  const meta = <PackageMeta>await got.getJSON(uri, registry)
   return meta
 }