diff --git a/pkg/validate/validate.go b/pkg/validate/validate.go
index 3683941cf..f647d1e17 100644
--- a/pkg/validate/validate.go
+++ b/pkg/validate/validate.go
@@ -6,62 +6,33 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"unicode/utf8"
-)
 
-const (
-	minURLRuneCount = 3
-	maxURLRuneCount = 2083
-
-	ipPattern           = `(([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){7,7}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,7}:|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,6}:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,5}(:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,2}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,4}(:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,3}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,3}(:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,4}|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,2}(:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,5}|[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:((:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,6})|:((:[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}){1,7}|:)|fe80:(:[0-9a-fA-F]{0,4}){0,4}%[0-9a-zA-Z]{1,}|::(ffff(:0{1,4}){0,1}:){0,1}((25[0-5]|(2[0-4]|1{0,1}[0-9]){0,1}[0-9])\.){3,3}(25[0-5]|(2[0-4]|1{0,1}[0-9]){0,1}[0-9])|([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){1,4}:((25[0-5]|(2[0-4]|1{0,1}[0-9]){0,1}[0-9])\.){3,3}(25[0-5]|(2[0-4]|1{0,1}[0-9]){0,1}[0-9]))`
-	urlSchemaPattern    = `((ftp|tcp|udp|wss?|https?):\/\/)`
-	urlUsernamePattern  = `(\S+(:\S*)?@)`
-	urlPathPattern      = `((\/|\?|#)[^\s]*)`
-	urlPortPattern      = `(:(\d{1,5}))`
-	urlIPPattern        = `([1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[01]\d|22[0-3]|24\d|25[0-5])(\.(\d{1,2}|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])){2}(?:\.([0-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]))`
-	urlSubdomainPattern = `((www\.)|([a-zA-Z0-9]+([-_\.]?[a-zA-Z0-9])*[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+))`
-	urlPattern          = `^` + urlSchemaPattern + `?` + urlUsernamePattern + `?` + `((` + urlIPPattern + `|(\[` + ipPattern + `\])|(([a-zA-Z0-9]([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)?[a-zA-Z0-9]([-\.][a-zA-Z0-9]+)*)|(` + urlSubdomainPattern + `?))?(([a-zA-Z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+-?-?)*[a-zA-Z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+)(?:\.([a-zA-Z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}]{1,}))?))\.?` + urlPortPattern + `?` + urlPathPattern + `?$`
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
 )
 
 var (
-	urlRegex         = regexp.MustCompile(urlPattern)
-	uuidRegex        = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$`)
 	hexadecimalRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9a-fA-F]+$`)
-	whitespaceRegex  = regexp.MustCompile(`^[[:space:]]+$`)
 	dnsNameRegex     = regexp.MustCompile(`^([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1}[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{0,62}){1}(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_]{1}[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{0,62})*[\._]?$`)
 )
 
 func IsURL(urlString string) bool {
-	if urlString == "" ||
-		utf8.RuneCountInString(urlString) >= maxURLRuneCount ||
-		len(urlString) <= minURLRuneCount ||
-		strings.HasPrefix(urlString, ".") {
+	if len(urlString) == 0 {
 		return false
 	}
 
 	strTemp := urlString
-	if strings.Contains(urlString, ":") && !strings.Contains(urlString, "://") {
-		// support no indicated urlscheme but with colon for port number
-		// http:// is appended so url.Parse will succeed, strTemp used so it does not impact rxURL.MatchString
+	if !strings.Contains(urlString, "://") {
+		// support no indicated urlscheme
+		// http:// is appended so url.Parse will succeed
 		strTemp = "http://" + urlString
 	}
 
 	u, err := url.Parse(strTemp)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false
-	}
-
-	if strings.HasPrefix(u.Host, ".") {
-		return false
-	}
-	if u.Host == "" && (u.Path != "" && !strings.Contains(u.Path, ".")) {
-		return false
-	}
-
-	return urlRegex.MatchString(urlString)
+	return err == nil && u.Host != ""
 }
 
 func IsUUID(uuidString string) bool {
-	return uuidRegex.MatchString(uuidString)
+	return uuid.Validate(uuidString) == nil
 }
 
 func IsHexadecimal(hexString string) bool {
@@ -69,7 +40,7 @@ func IsHexadecimal(hexString string) bool {
 }
 
 func HasWhitespaceOnly(s string) bool {
-	return len(s) > 0 && whitespaceRegex.MatchString(s)
+	return len(s) > 0 && strings.TrimSpace(s) == ""
 }
 
 func MinStringLength(s string, len int) bool {
diff --git a/pkg/validate/validate_test.go b/pkg/validate/validate_test.go
index e8b62288e..f3cb6a01c 100644
--- a/pkg/validate/validate_test.go
+++ b/pkg/validate/validate_test.go
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ func Test_IsURL(t *testing.T) {
 			url:            "https://google.com",
 			expectedResult: true,
 		},
+		{
+			name:           "empty",
+			url:            "",
+			expectedResult: false,
+		},
 		{
 			name:           "no schema",
 			url:            "google.com",
@@ -33,9 +38,14 @@ func Test_IsURL(t *testing.T) {
 			expectedResult: true,
 		},
 		{
-			name:           "invalid",
+			name:           "no top level domain",
 			url:            "google",
-			expectedResult: false,
+			expectedResult: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:           "Unicode URL",
+			url:            "www.xn--exampe-7db.ai",
+			expectedResult: true,
 		},
 	}
 
@@ -145,6 +155,11 @@ func Test_HasWhitespaceOnly(t *testing.T) {
 			s:              "something like this",
 			expectedResult: false,
 		},
+		{
+			name:           "all whitespace",
+			s:              "\t\n\v\f\r ",
+			expectedResult: true,
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, tc := range testCases {