diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/canonical-url.test.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/canonical-url.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0a2c3acd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/canonical-url.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import { normalizeUrl } from './canonical-url';
+
+describe('normalizeUrl', () => {
+  it('should remove protocol and www from URL', () => {
+    const url = 'https://www.example.com';
+    const expected = 'example.com';
+    expect(normalizeUrl(url)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+
+  it('should remove only protocol if www is not present', () => {
+    const url = 'https://example.com';
+    const expected = 'example.com';
+    expect(normalizeUrl(url)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+
+  it('should handle URLs without protocol', () => {
+    const url = 'www.example.com';
+    const expected = 'example.com';
+    expect(normalizeUrl(url)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+
+  it('should handle URLs without protocol and www', () => {
+    const url = 'example.com';
+    const expected = 'example.com';
+    expect(normalizeUrl(url)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+
+  it('should handle URLs with paths', () => {
+    const url = 'https://www.example.com/path/to/resource';
+    const expected = 'example.com';
+    expect(normalizeUrl(url)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+
+  it('should handle invalid URLs gracefully', () => {
+    const url = 'not a valid url';
+    const expected = 'not a valid url';
+    expect(normalizeUrl(url)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/apps/api/src/lib/canonical-url.ts b/apps/api/src/lib/canonical-url.ts
index cbb33f8b..fedea09d 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/lib/canonical-url.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/lib/canonical-url.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 export function normalizeUrl(url: string) {
-  url = url.replace(/^https?:\/\//, "").replace(/^www\./, "");
-  if (url.endsWith("/")) {
-    url = url.slice(0, -1);
+  try {
+    const hostname = new URL(url).hostname;
+    return hostname.replace(/^www\./, "");
+  } catch (error) {
+    return url.replace(/^https?:\/\//, "").replace(/^www\./, "").split('/')[0];
   }
-  return url;
 }
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