diff --git a/js/id/ui/entity_editor.js b/js/id/ui/entity_editor.js
index 045d04fc8..381a205d4 100644
--- a/js/id/ui/entity_editor.js
+++ b/js/id/ui/entity_editor.js
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ iD.ui.EntityEditor = function(context) {
             // It is only intended to prevent obvious copy-paste errors. (#2323)
 
             // clean website-like tags
-            if (k.indexOf('website') !== -1 || cleaned.indexOf('http') !== -1) {
+            if (k.indexOf('website') !== -1 || cleaned.indexOf('http') === 0) {
                 cleaned = cleaned
                     .replace(/[\u200B-\u200F\uFEFF]/g, '')  // strip LRM and other zero width chars
                     .replace(/[^\w\+\-\.\/\?\[\]\(\)~!@#$%&*',:;=]/g, encodeURIComponent);