diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/DomainValidator.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/DomainValidator.java
index 3a0a1121c..7497b80dc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/DomainValidator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/DomainValidator.java
@@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@ private static boolean isOnlyASCII(final String input) {
      * @param input The string to convert, not null.
      * @return converted input, or original input if conversion fails.
      */
-    // Needed by UrlValidator
+    // package protected for unit test access
     static String unicodeToASCII(final String input) {
         if (isOnlyASCII(input)) { // skip possibly expensive processing
             return input;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java
index 3cead7bfe..1d7d84307 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java
@@ -117,7 +117,9 @@ public class UrlValidator implements Serializable {
     // Drop numeric, and  "+-." for now
     // TODO does not allow for optional userinfo.
     // Validation of character set is done by isValidAuthority
-    private static final String AUTHORITY_CHARS_REGEX = "\\p{Alnum}\\-\\."; // allows for IPV4 but not IPV6
+    // Non-ASCII characters are admitted so an IDN host can be split from the userinfo and port before it is converted
+    // to ASCII; DomainValidator then converts and checks the host on its own.
+    private static final String AUTHORITY_CHARS_REGEX = "\\p{Alnum}\\-\\.\\P{ASCII}"; // allows for IPV4 but not IPV6
     // Captured inside [ ] in AUTHORITY_REGEX and validated by InetAddressValidator.isValidInet6Address, so the
     // dot is allowed for IPv4-mapped/embedded forms (for example ::ffff:1.2.3.4 or 2001:db8::1.2.3.4), not just ::FFFF:
     private static final String IPV6_REGEX = "[0-9a-fA-F:.]+"; // the brackets remove the port-prefix ':' ambiguity
@@ -421,10 +423,10 @@ protected boolean isValidAuthority(final String authority) {
         if (authorityValidator != null && authorityValidator.isValid(authority)) {
             return true;
         }
-        // convert to ASCII if possible
-        final String authorityASCII = DomainValidator.unicodeToASCII(authority);
-
-        final Matcher authorityMatcher = AUTHORITY_PATTERN.matcher(authorityASCII);
+        // Split the authority before any IDN conversion. IDN.toASCII folds compatibility characters such as the
+        // fullwidth '@' and ':' to their ASCII forms and punycodes a whole label, so converting the authority first
+        // would invent delimiters that are not in the URL and encode the userinfo or port into the host label.
+        final Matcher authorityMatcher = AUTHORITY_PATTERN.matcher(authority);
         if (!authorityMatcher.matches()) {
             return false;
         }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidatorTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidatorTest.java
index 7b247209f..ea95557b6 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidatorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidatorTest.java
@@ -216,6 +216,21 @@ void testFragments() {
         assertTrue(urlValidator.isValid("http://apache.org/a/b/c#frag"));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void testIdnAuthority() {
+        final UrlValidator urlValidator = new UrlValidator();
+        // the userinfo and port are split off before the IDN conversion, so neither is punycoded into a host label
+        assertTrue(urlValidator.isValid("http://президент.рф:8080/"));
+        assertTrue(urlValidator.isValid("http://user:pass@президент.рф:8080/index.html"));
+        assertTrue(urlValidator.isValidAuthority("user@www.b\u00fccher.ch"));
+        assertFalse(urlValidator.isValidAuthority("президент.рф:65536"));
+        // nameprep folds the fullwidth commercial at (U+FF20) and the fullwidth colon (U+FF1A) to '@' and ':';
+        // neither is a delimiter in the URL as given, so it must not be read as the userinfo or port separator
+        assertFalse(urlValidator.isValid("http://example.com\uFF20apache.org/"));
+        assertFalse(urlValidator.isValid("http://user\uFF1Apass\uFF20apache.org/"));
+        assertFalse(urlValidator.isValid("http://apache.org\uFF1A80/"));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void testIpv6EmbeddedIpv4() {
         final UrlValidator urlValidator = new UrlValidator();