diff --git a/src/angular/components/view.component.ts b/src/angular/components/view.component.ts
index b645f92ff5..1fd26d1015 100644
--- a/src/angular/components/view.component.ts
+++ b/src/angular/components/view.component.ts
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ export class ViewComponent implements OnDestroy, OnInit {
         }
 
         this.platformUtilsService.eventTrack('Launched Login URI');
-        this.platformUtilsService.launchUri(uri.uri);
+        this.platformUtilsService.launchUri(uri.launchUri);
     }
 
     copy(value: string, typeI18nKey: string, aType: string) {
diff --git a/src/misc/utils.ts b/src/misc/utils.ts
index 2760d2af6c..d07c6f6af4 100644
--- a/src/misc/utils.ts
+++ b/src/misc/utils.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export class Utils {
     static isBrowser = true;
     static isMobileBrowser = false;
     static global: any = null;
+    static tldEndingRegex = /.*\.(com|net|org|edu|uk|gov|ca|de|jp|fr|au|ru|ch|io|es|us|co|xyz|info|ly|mil)$/;
 
     static init() {
         if (Utils.inited) {
@@ -175,7 +176,13 @@ export class Utils {
             return null;
         }
 
-        if (uriString.startsWith('http://') || uriString.startsWith('https://')) {
+        let httpUrl = uriString.startsWith('http://') || uriString.startsWith('https://');
+        if (!httpUrl && Utils.tldEndingRegex.test(uriString)) {
+            uriString = 'http://' + uriString;
+            httpUrl = true;
+        }
+
+        if (httpUrl) {
             try {
                 const url = Utils.getUrlObject(uriString);
                 if (url.hostname === 'localhost' || Utils.validIpAddress(url.hostname)) {
diff --git a/src/models/view/loginUriView.ts b/src/models/view/loginUriView.ts
index 2ac71bd8f2..70698ca33d 100644
--- a/src/models/view/loginUriView.ts
+++ b/src/models/view/loginUriView.ts
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ export class LoginUriView implements View {
     }
 
     get isWebsite(): boolean {
-        return this.uri != null && (this.uri.indexOf('http://') === 0 || this.uri.indexOf('https://') === 0);
+        return this.uri != null && (this.uri.indexOf('http://') === 0 || this.uri.indexOf('https://') === 0 ||
+            (this.uri.indexOf('://') < 0 && Utils.tldEndingRegex.test(this.uri)));
     }
 
     get canLaunch(): boolean {
@@ -78,8 +79,9 @@ export class LoginUriView implements View {
             return this._canLaunch;
         }
         if (this.uri != null) {
+            const uri = this.launchUri;
             for (let i = 0; i < CanLaunchWhitelist.length; i++) {
-                if (this.uri.indexOf(CanLaunchWhitelist[i]) === 0) {
+                if (uri.indexOf(CanLaunchWhitelist[i]) === 0) {
                     this._canLaunch = true;
                     return this._canLaunch;
                 }
@@ -88,4 +90,8 @@ export class LoginUriView implements View {
         this._canLaunch = false;
         return this._canLaunch;
     }
+
+    get launchUri(): string {
+        return this.uri.indexOf('://') < 0 && Utils.tldEndingRegex.test(this.uri) ? ('http://' + this.uri) : this.uri;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/models/view/loginView.ts b/src/models/view/loginView.ts
index e0c7b06bf0..822a9361d3 100644
--- a/src/models/view/loginView.ts
+++ b/src/models/view/loginView.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ export class LoginView implements View {
         return this.hasUris && this.uris[0].canLaunch;
     }
 
+    get launchUri(): string {
+        return this.canLaunch ? this.uris[0].launchUri : null;
+    }
+
     get hasUris(): boolean {
         return this.uris != null && this.uris.length > 0;
     }