diff --git a/app/models/person.rb b/app/models/person.rb
index 70a961f0e..19eef2969 100644
--- a/app/models/person.rb
+++ b/app/models/person.rb
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ class Person
   before_destroy :remove_all_traces
   before_validation :clean_url
   validates_presence_of :url, :profile, :serialized_public_key
-  validates_format_of :url, :with =>
-    /^(https?):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,5})?(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.*)?$/ix
+  #validates_format_of :url, :with =>
+  #  /^(https?):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,5})?(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.*)?$/ix
 
   ensure_index :diaspora_handle