diff --git a/src/parser/link_url/parse_link.rs b/src/parser/link_url/parse_link.rs
index 9ff1d93..f4e288b 100644
--- a/src/parser/link_url/parse_link.rs
+++ b/src/parser/link_url/parse_link.rs
@@ -368,6 +368,9 @@ fn parse_iri(input: &str) -> IResult<&str, LinkDestination, CustomError<&str>> {
         .saturating_add(authority.len())
         .saturating_add(host.len())
         .saturating_add(path.len());
+    if ihier_len == 3 {
+        return Err(nom::Err::Error(CustomError::InvalidLink));
+    }
     // compute length of authority + host + path
     let mut len = scheme
         .len()
@@ -417,8 +420,9 @@ fn parse_generic(input: &str) -> IResult<&str, LinkDestination, CustomError<&str
     if !is_allowed_generic_scheme(scheme) {
         return Err(nom::Err::Error(CustomError::InvalidLink));
     }
-    let (input, rest) = take_while(is_not_white_space)(input)?;
-    let len = scheme.len().saturating_add(rest.len());
+    let (input, _colon) = char(':')(input)?;
+    let (input, rest) = take_while1(is_not_white_space)(input)?;
+    let len = scheme.len().saturating_add(rest.len()).saturating_add(1);
     if let Some(target) = i.get(0..len) {
         return Ok((
             input,
diff --git a/tests/links.rs b/tests/links.rs
index a743ae5..0f8f94a 100644
--- a/tests/links.rs
+++ b/tests/links.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,17 @@ fn basic_parsing() {
     }
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn bare_scheme_no_parse() {
+    // bare scheme shouldn't be linkified
+    let bare = vec!["tel", "tel:", "bitcoin:", "mailto", "https://", "http://"];
+
+    for input in bare {
+        let result = LinkDestination::parse(input);
+        assert!(result.is_err());
+    }
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn invalid_domains() {
     let test_cases = vec![";?:/hi", "##://thing"];