diff --git a/lib/rails_ext/actiontext_opengraph_embeds.rb b/lib/rails_ext/actiontext_opengraph_embeds.rb
index 888b405..712844d 100644
--- a/lib/rails_ext/actiontext_opengraph_embeds.rb
+++ b/lib/rails_ext/actiontext_opengraph_embeds.rb
@@ -42,11 +42,19 @@ class ActionText::Attachment::OpengraphEmbed
       # while a browser still unescapes it back to us, so an escaped host is out
       # too, and neither case is anything an unfurl could have produced.
       def elsewhere?(host)
-        return false if host.blank? || host.include?("%")
+        return false unless named_host?(host)
 
         canonical_host(host) != canonical_host(Current.request_host.to_s)
       end
 
+      # A preview names a page on the public internet, so its host is a domain
+      # name: it has a dot and a letter in it, and no escapes. A bare address is
+      # not one, and a browser rewrites the many spellings of an address into a
+      # single one before it fetches, which is a race a comparison here loses.
+      def named_host?(host)
+        host.present? && host.exclude?("%") && host.include?(".") && host.match?(/[a-z]/i)
+      end
+
       def canonical_host(host)
         host.downcase.delete_suffix(".")
       end
diff --git a/test/lib/rails_ext/actiontext_opengraph_embeds_test.rb b/test/lib/rails_ext/actiontext_opengraph_embeds_test.rb
index 523232f..a93360b 100644
--- a/test/lib/rails_ext/actiontext_opengraph_embeds_test.rb
+++ b/test/lib/rails_ext/actiontext_opengraph_embeds_test.rb
@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ class ActionText::Attachment::OpengraphEmbedTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
     end
   end
 
+  test "drops a link and an image on a bare address rather than a domain name" do
+    [ "http://127.0.0.1/rooms/1", "http://2130706433/rooms/1", "http://0177.0.0.1/rooms/1",
+      "http://[::1]/rooms/1", "http://localhost/rooms/1", "https://203.0.113.10/image.png" ].each do |value|
+      embed = embed_from href: value, url: value
+
+      assert_nil embed.href, "expected #{value.inspect} to be dropped as a link"
+      assert_nil embed.url, "expected #{value.inspect} to be dropped as an image"
+    end
+  end
+
   test "renders the image and the link when both are web URLs" do
     html = render_embed href: "https://example.com/page", url: "https://example.com/image.png"