diff --git a/src/web/app/pages-static/request-page/instructor-request-form/instructor-request-form.component.ts b/src/web/app/pages-static/request-page/instructor-request-form/instructor-request-form.component.ts
index dc2684354e5..f417acc6670 100644
--- a/src/web/app/pages-static/request-page/instructor-request-form/instructor-request-form.component.ts
+++ b/src/web/app/pages-static/request-page/instructor-request-form/instructor-request-form.component.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { Component, EventEmitter, Output } from '@angular/core';
 import { FormControl, FormGroup, Validators } from '@angular/forms';
 import { InstructorRequestFormData } from './InstructorRequestFormData';
 
-const URL_REGEX = '(http(s)?:\/\/.)?(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)';
+const URL_REGEX = /(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,4}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)|(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?(?!ww)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,4}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/;
 
 @Component({
   selector: 'tm-instructor-request-form',