diff --git a/spacy/language_data/tokenizer_exceptions.py b/spacy/language_data/tokenizer_exceptions.py
index b84adb2c4..9d5187d83 100644
--- a/spacy/language_data/tokenizer_exceptions.py
+++ b/spacy/language_data/tokenizer_exceptions.py
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ _URL_PATTERN = (
     r"(?:\.(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-4]))"
     r"|"
     # host name
-    r"(?:(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]-*)*[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]+)"
+    r"(?:(?:[a-z0-9\-]*)?[a-z0-9]+)"
     # domain name
-    r"(?:\.(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]-*)*[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]+)*"
+    r"(?:\.(?:[a-z0-9\-])*[a-z0-9]+)*"
     # TLD identifier
-    r"(?:\.(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff]{2,}))"
+    r"(?:\.(?:[a-z]{2,}))"
     r")"
     # port number
     r"(?::\d{2,5})?"
diff --git a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_urls.py b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_urls.py
index 959067110..3bb6521f1 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_urls.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/tokenizer/test_urls.py
@@ -33,13 +33,10 @@ URLS_SHOULD_MATCH = [
     "http://userid:password@example.com/",
     "http://142.42.1.1/",
     "http://142.42.1.1:8080/",
-    "http://⌘.ws",
-    "http://⌘.ws/",
     "http://foo.com/blah_(wikipedia)#cite-1",
     "http://foo.com/blah_(wikipedia)_blah#cite-1",
     "http://foo.com/unicode_(✪)_in_parens",
     "http://foo.com/(something)?after=parens",
-    "http://☺.damowmow.com/",
     "http://code.google.com/events/#&product=browser",
     "http://j.mp",
     "ftp://foo.bar/baz",
@@ -49,14 +46,17 @@ URLS_SHOULD_MATCH = [
     "http://a.b-c.de",
     "http://223.255.255.254",
     "http://a.b--c.de/", # this is a legit domain name see: https://gist.github.com/dperini/729294 comment on 9/9/2014
-    "http://✪df.ws/123",
-    "http://➡.ws/䨹",
-    "http://مثال.إختبار",
-    "http://例子.测试",
-    "http://उदाहरण.परीक्षा",
 
     pytest.mark.xfail("http://foo.com/blah_blah_(wikipedia)"),
     pytest.mark.xfail("http://foo.com/blah_blah_(wikipedia)_(again)"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://⌘.ws"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://⌘.ws/"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://☺.damowmow.com/"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://✪df.ws/123"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://➡.ws/䨹"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://مثال.إختبار"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://例子.测试"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://उदाहरण.परीक्षा"),
 ]
 
 URLS_SHOULD_NOT_MATCH = [
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ URLS_SHOULD_NOT_MATCH = [
     "http://foo.bar/foo(bar)baz quux",
     "ftps://foo.bar/",
     "http://-error-.invalid/",
-    "http://-a.b.co",
     "http://a.b-.co",
     "http://0.0.0.0",
     "http://10.1.1.0",
@@ -99,6 +98,7 @@ URLS_SHOULD_NOT_MATCH = [
     pytest.mark.xfail("foo.com"),
     pytest.mark.xfail("http://1.1.1.1.1"),
     pytest.mark.xfail("http://www.foo.bar./"),
+    pytest.mark.xfail("http://-a.b.co"),
 ]