Working on some markdown documentation and find that it auto links the following text:

www.example.com

A dirty trick to disable the auto link is:

www<span></span>.example.com

If your text contains the protocol prefix, you need to add the span tag at:

http://www<span></span>.example.com

If it doesn’t work, try:

http<span></span>://www.example.com

Done =)

Reference: Disable Github-flavored Markdown autolinking