Are there ways to resolve it using something like Namecoin?
Censorship via DNS happens...
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/dns-censorship-dns-lies-seen-by-atlas-probes
There are a dozen or so public IPFS gateways, and anyone can set up their own IPFS gateway. Any IPFS gateway would work to resolve the IPFS hash.
