diff --git a/r2/r2/lib/pages/pages.py b/r2/r2/lib/pages/pages.py
index 0e8ee7a33..27e20c493 100644
--- a/r2/r2/lib/pages/pages.py
+++ b/r2/r2/lib/pages/pages.py
@@ -1264,7 +1264,6 @@ class PromotedTraffic(Traffic):
             cli_total = locale.format('%d', sum(x[2] for x in cli), True)
             chart = graph.LineGraph(cli)
             self.cli_graph = chart.google_chart(ylabels = ['uniques', 'total'],
-                                                multiy = False,
                                                 title = ("clicks (%s)" %
                                                          cli_total))
         else:
diff --git a/r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py b/r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py
index 7bd0aa9a2..282a283e5 100644
--- a/r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py
+++ b/r2/r2/lib/utils/utils.py
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ def get_title(url):
     except: return None
        
 valid_schemes = ('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'mailto')         
+valid_dns = re.compile('^[-a-zA-Z0-9]+$')
 def sanitize_url(url, require_scheme = False):
     """Validates that the url is of the form
 
@@ -312,8 +313,6 @@ def sanitize_url(url, require_scheme = False):
     returns None.  If no scheme is provided and 'require_scheme =
     False' is set, the url is returned with scheme 'http', provided it
     otherwise validates"""
-    if not url or ' ' in url:
-        return
 
     url = url.strip()
     if url.lower() == 'self':
@@ -325,9 +324,19 @@ def sanitize_url(url, require_scheme = False):
         url = 'http://' + url
         u = urlparse(url)
 
-    if (u.scheme and u.scheme in valid_schemes
-        and u.hostname and len(u.hostname) < 255
-        and '%' not in u.netloc):
+    if u.scheme and u.scheme in valid_schemes:
+        labels = u.hostname.split('.')
+        for label in labels:
+            try:
+                #if this succeeds, this portion of the dns is almost
+                #valid and converted to ascii
+                label = label.encode('idna')
+            except UnicodeError:
+                return
+            else:
+                #then if this success, this portion of the dns is really valid
+                if not re.match(valid_dns, label):
+                    return
         return url
 
 def timeago(interval):