# Way to remove link from simple url in post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-remove-link-from-simple-url-in-post/166147
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 4, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-remove-link-from-simple-url-in-post/166147 "2020-10-04T00:42:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-remove-link-from-simple-url-in-post/166147/1 "2020-10-04T00:42:34Z")
Sometimes it’s desirable to refer to a website by it’s domain name, but not have it become a link. For example, on [community.wanikani.com](http://community.wanikani.com) (a forum for learning Japanese), people often refer to “jisho” as a specific website, but it is also a word in Japanese. For clarity, it is sometimes preferable to refer to it as [jisho.org](http://jisho.org). But in those cases, I don’t want it to become a link.
Is there a way (as the user writing the post) to make a simple url like above not become a link? Without changing the visual formatting that is, so no backticks. I tried escaping the period, but that didn’t work. If this is not currently possible, would it be easy to add such a feature, either by escaping the period or in some other way?
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### Author:  [@csmu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/csmu)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-remove-link-from-simple-url-in-post/166147/2 "2020-10-04T02:11:17Z")
jisho.org
use `& #46;` (without the space) for the dot.
credit [Disable Github-flavored Markdown autolinking · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/alexpeattie/4729247#gistcomment-1791698)
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-remove-link-from-simple-url-in-post/166147/3 "2020-10-04T03:43:09Z")
Oh boy. Good to know, but I’m never going to remember the character code… 😅
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### Author:  [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-remove-link-from-simple-url-in-post/166147/4 "2020-10-04T06:27:27Z")
HTML `jisho.org` jisho.org