diff --git a/src/components/Link/LinkBubbleView.vue b/src/components/Link/LinkBubbleView.vue
index d1a1e46ca82..e0245c2a7d8 100644
--- a/src/components/Link/LinkBubbleView.vue
+++ b/src/components/Link/LinkBubbleView.vue
@@ -149,9 +149,8 @@ export default {
 		 * NcReferenceList only accepts full URLs with origin.
 		 */
 		sanitizedHref() {
-			return this.href?.startsWith('/')
-				? location.origin + this.href
-				: this.href
+			const url = new URL(this.href, window.location)
+			return url.href
 		},
 
 		title() {
diff --git a/src/nodes/ParagraphView.vue b/src/nodes/ParagraphView.vue
index d403632434f..b1b7db2fba4 100644
--- a/src/nodes/ParagraphView.vue
+++ b/src/nodes/ParagraphView.vue
@@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ export default {
 			const linkMark = textNode?.marks.find((m) => m.type.name === 'link')
 			const href = linkMark?.attrs?.href
 
-			const PATTERN = /(^)(https?:\/\/)((?:[-A-Z0-9+_]+\.)+[-A-Z]+(?:\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#%?=~_|!:,.;()]*)*)($)/ig
-			if ((new RegExp(PATTERN)).test(href)) {
-				return href
+			if (href) {
+				const url = new URL(href, window.location)
+				return url.href
 			}
 
 			return null