diff --git a/identity_did/Cargo.toml b/identity_did/Cargo.toml
index 31c636b70f..9b32efb13b 100644
--- a/identity_did/Cargo.toml
+++ b/identity_did/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ repository.workspace = true
 description = "Agnostic implementation of the Decentralized Identifiers (DID) standard."
 
 [dependencies]
-did_url = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["std", "serde"] }
+did_url_parser = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["std", "serde"] }
 form_urlencoded = { version = "1.2.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }
 identity_core = { version = "=1.1.1", path = "../identity_core" }
 serde.workspace = true
diff --git a/identity_did/src/did.rs b/identity_did/src/did.rs
index eb07f61a08..de9cf61183 100644
--- a/identity_did/src/did.rs
+++ b/identity_did/src/did.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use core::fmt::Formatter;
 use core::str::FromStr;
 use std::hash::Hash;
 
-use did_url::DID as BaseDIDUrl;
+use did_url_parser::DID as BaseDIDUrl;
 
 use identity_core::common::KeyComparable;
 
@@ -111,14 +111,7 @@ impl CoreDID {
   ///
   /// Returns `Err` if the input is not a valid [`DID`].
   pub fn parse(input: impl AsRef<str>) -> Result<Self, Error> {
-    let base_did_url: BaseDIDUrl = BaseDIDUrl::parse(input).map_err(Error::from)?;
-    Self::try_from_base_did(base_did_url)
-  }
-
-  /// Try convert a [`BaseDIDUrl`] into a [`CoreDID`].
-  fn try_from_base_did(base_did_url: BaseDIDUrl) -> Result<Self, Error> {
-    Self::check_validity(&base_did_url)?;
-    Ok(Self(base_did_url))
+    BaseDIDUrl::parse(input).map(Self).map_err(Error::from)
   }
 
   /// Set the method name of the [`DID`].
@@ -145,9 +138,23 @@ impl CoreDID {
 
   /// Validates whether a string is a valid [`DID`] method-id.
   pub fn valid_method_id(value: &str) -> Result<(), Error> {
-    if !value.chars().all(is_char_method_id) {
-      return Err(Error::InvalidMethodId);
+    // if !value.chars().all(is_char_method_id) {
+    //   return Err(Error::InvalidMethodId);
+    // }
+    let mut chars = value.chars();
+    while let Some(c) = chars.next() {
+      match c {
+        '%' => {
+          let digits = chars.clone().take(2).collect::<String>();
+          u8::from_str_radix(&digits, 16).map_err(|_| Error::InvalidMethodId)?;
+          chars.next();
+          chars.next();
+        }
+        c if is_char_method_id(c) => (),
+        _ => return Err(Error::InvalidMethodId),
+      }
     }
+
     Ok(())
   }
 
@@ -185,7 +192,7 @@ impl TryFrom<BaseDIDUrl> for CoreDID {
   type Error = Error;
 
   fn try_from(base_did_url: BaseDIDUrl) -> Result<Self, Self::Error> {
-    Self::try_from_base_did(base_did_url)
+    Ok(Self(base_did_url))
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/identity_did/src/did_url.rs b/identity_did/src/did_url.rs
index 60c7d6c84e..0e8eebcace 100644
--- a/identity_did/src/did_url.rs
+++ b/identity_did/src/did_url.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use std::cmp::Ordering;
 use std::hash::Hash;
 use std::hash::Hasher;
 
-use did_url::DID as BaseDIDUrl;
+use did_url_parser::DID as BaseDIDUrl;
 
 use identity_core::common::KeyComparable;
 use identity_core::common::Url;
diff --git a/identity_did/src/error.rs b/identity_did/src/error.rs
index b2c1ab1469..e9bf4f51b4 100644
--- a/identity_did/src/error.rs
+++ b/identity_did/src/error.rs
@@ -23,15 +23,15 @@ pub enum Error {
   Other(&'static str),
 }
 
-impl From<did_url::Error> for Error {
-  fn from(error: did_url::Error) -> Self {
+impl From<did_url_parser::Error> for Error {
+  fn from(error: did_url_parser::Error) -> Self {
     match error {
-      did_url::Error::InvalidFragment => Self::InvalidFragment,
-      did_url::Error::InvalidMethodId => Self::InvalidMethodId,
-      did_url::Error::InvalidMethodName => Self::InvalidMethodName,
-      did_url::Error::InvalidPath => Self::InvalidPath,
-      did_url::Error::InvalidQuery => Self::InvalidQuery,
-      did_url::Error::InvalidScheme => Self::InvalidScheme,
+      did_url_parser::Error::InvalidFragment => Self::InvalidFragment,
+      did_url_parser::Error::InvalidMethodId => Self::InvalidMethodId,
+      did_url_parser::Error::InvalidMethodName => Self::InvalidMethodName,
+      did_url_parser::Error::InvalidPath => Self::InvalidPath,
+      did_url_parser::Error::InvalidQuery => Self::InvalidQuery,
+      did_url_parser::Error::InvalidScheme => Self::InvalidScheme,
       error => Self::Other(error.as_str()),
     }
   }
diff --git a/identity_did/src/lib.rs b/identity_did/src/lib.rs
index f6fb2c368c..9289419211 100644
--- a/identity_did/src/lib.rs
+++ b/identity_did/src/lib.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ mod error;
 
 pub use crate::did_url::DIDUrl;
 pub use crate::did_url::RelativeDIDUrl;
-pub use ::did_url::DID as BaseDIDUrl;
+pub use ::did_url_parser::DID as BaseDIDUrl;
 pub use did::CoreDID;
 pub use did::DID;
 pub use error::Error;
diff --git a/identity_document/Cargo.toml b/identity_document/Cargo.toml
index 6605cc8325..c2fceac707 100644
--- a/identity_document/Cargo.toml
+++ b/identity_document/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ rust-version.workspace = true
 description = "Method-agnostic implementation of the Decentralized Identifiers (DID) standard."
 
 [dependencies]
-did_url = { version = "0.1", default-features = false, features = ["std", "serde"] }
+did_url_parser = { version = "0.2.0", features = ["std", "serde"] }
 identity_core = { version = "=1.1.1", path = "../identity_core" }
 identity_did = { version = "=1.1.1", path = "../identity_did" }
 identity_verification = { version = "=1.1.1", path = "../identity_verification", default-features = false }