diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index e9103bb4ac..a5c1e677b9 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@
     r"https://www\.miniwebtool\.com/django-secret-key-generator/",  # seems to block the requests user agent
     # our changelog generates many such links that slow down the link checks :)
     r"https://github.com/open-formulieren/open-forms/issues/[0-9]+",
+    r"https://www\.gnu\.org/software/gettext/",
 ]
 
 linkcheck_anchors_ignore_for_url = [