diff --git a/src/autotests/HotSpotFilterTest.cpp b/src/autotests/HotSpotFilterTest.cpp
index 440a2006..8204720e 100644
--- a/src/autotests/HotSpotFilterTest.cpp
+++ b/src/autotests/HotSpotFilterTest.cpp
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ void HotSpotFilterTest::testUrlFilterRegex_data()
                                        << "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thresholding_(image_processing)&oldid=132306976" << true;
     QTest::newRow("fragment_with_parens") << "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSI_(Control_Sequence_Introducer)_sequences"
                                           << "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSI_(Control_Sequence_Introducer)_sequences" << true;
-    QTest::newRow("url_with_lots_of_parens") << "(https://foo(bar(baz(qux)quux)quuux))))"
-                                             << "https://foo(bar(baz(qux)quux)quuux)" << true;
+    QTest::newRow("url_with_lots_of_parens") << "(https://example.com/foo(bar(baz(qux)quux)quuux))))"
+                                             << "https://example.com/foo(bar(baz(qux)quux)quuux)" << true;
 }
 
 void HotSpotFilterTest::testUrlFilterRegex()
diff --git a/src/filterHotSpots/UrlFilter.cpp b/src/filterHotSpots/UrlFilter.cpp
index 89971a27..6c0bea75 100644
--- a/src/filterHotSpots/UrlFilter.cpp
+++ b/src/filterHotSpots/UrlFilter.cpp
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ using namespace Konsole;
 // - "port" (':1234'), if present, is assumed to be non-empty
 // - We don't check the validity of percent-encoded characters
 //   (e.g. "www.example.com/foo%XXbar")
-// - We don't recognize URIs with unbalanced parens in regname, path, query or fragment.
+// - We do not allow parenthesis in host.
+// - We don't recognize URIs with unbalanced parens in path, query or fragment.
 //   We do this to prevent URIs inside parentheses from getting extended to the closing
 //   parenthesis.  We still recognize unbalanced parens in userInfo, but the
 //   postfix @ should prevent most ambiguity.
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ static const char scheme_or_www_end[] = ")";
 /* clang-format off */
 static const char userInfo[] = "(?:[" COMMON_1 ":()" "]++@)?+"; // user:password@
 #define IPv6_literal "\\[[0-9a-fA-F:.]++\\]"
-static const char host[] = "(?:" BALANCED_PARENS(COMMON_1) "++|" IPv6_literal ")?+"; // www.foo.bar
+static const char host[] = "(?:[" COMMON_1 "]++|" IPv6_literal ")?+"; // www.foo.bar
 static const char port[] = "(?::[0-9]+)?+"; // :1234
 
 #define COMMON_2 "a-z0-9\\-._~%!$&'*+,;=:@/"