diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 487bd99..176ff21 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zlnk"
-version = "0.4.4"
+version = "0.4.5"
 dependencies = [
  "dotenv 0.11.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "maxminddb 0.9.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ab548a6..ac0febb 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "zlnk"
-version = "0.4.4"
+version = "0.4.5"
 authors = ["Jonas Kuche <Jonas.kuche@gmail.com>"]
 
 [dependencies]
diff --git a/src/env_loader.rs b/src/env_loader.rs
index db462d6..6b43a8e 100644
--- a/src/env_loader.rs
+++ b/src/env_loader.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pub struct Env {
     pub disable_stats: bool
 }
 
-const URL_REGEX: &'static str = r"^(https?://)?([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})([/\w \.-]*)*/?$";
+const URL_REGEX: &'static str = r"https?://(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)";
 
 pub fn init() -> Env {
     dotenv().ok();