diff --git a/types/react-linkify/index.d.ts b/types/react-linkify/index.d.ts
index f67f5f88a8..e0c5cb2d11 100644
--- a/types/react-linkify/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/react-linkify/index.d.ts
@@ -1,65 +1,62 @@
-// Type definitions for react-linkify 0.2
+// Type definitions for react-linkify 1.0
 // Project: http://tasti.github.io/react-linkify/
 // Definitions by: Michael James <https://github.com/majames>
 //                 Jacky Wang <https://github.com/jackywang529>
+//                 Akhil Stanislavose <https://github.com/akhilstanis>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
 // TypeScript Version: 3.4
 
 import * as React from "react";
 
-declare namespace ReactLinkify {
-    /**
-     * Matching information
-     */
-    interface MatchInfo {
-        /**
-         * Link schema, can be empty for fuzzy links, or for protocol-neutral links
-         */
-        schema: string;
-        /**
-         * Offset of matched text
-         */
-        index: number;
-        /**
-         * Index of next char after the end of the matched text
-         */
-        lastIndex: number;
-        /**
-         * Normalized text
-         */
-        text: string;
-        /**
-         * Link, generated from matched text
-         */
-        url: string;
-    }
-
-    interface Props {
-        children: React.ReactNode;
-        /**
-         * Custom anchor tag creator
-         * Default to using exisint <a> tag with the provided href={decoratedHref}, key={key}
-         * and children={decoratedText}, without additional styling
-         */
-        componentDecorator?: (decoratedHref: string, decoratedText: string, key: number) => React.ReactNode;
-        /**
-         * Custom href decorator or mapper on the matched (url) href
-         * Default to no transformation
-         */
-        hrefDecorator?: (urlHref: string) => string;
-        /**
-         * Custom matcher for (url), that returns each match with the matching information
-         * Default to https://github.com/markdown-it/linkify-it's LinkifyIt().tlds(tlds).match
-         */
-        matchDecorator?: (text: string) => MatchInfo[] | null;
-        /**
-         * Custom text decorator or mapper on the matched (url) text
-         * Default to no transformation
-         */
-        textDecorator?: (urlText: string) => string;
-    }
-
-    class ReactLinkify extends React.Component<Props> {}
+/**
+ * Matching information
+ */
+export interface MatchInfo {
+  /**
+   * Link schema, can be empty for fuzzy links, or for protocol-neutral links
+   */
+  schema: string;
+  /**
+   * Offset of matched text
+   */
+  index: number;
+  /**
+   * Index of next char after the end of the matched text
+   */
+  lastIndex: number;
+  /**
+   * Normalized text
+   */
+  text: string;
+  /**
+   * Link, generated from matched text
+   */
+  url: string;
 }
 
-export default ReactLinkify.ReactLinkify;
+export interface Props {
+  children: React.ReactNode;
+  /**
+   * Custom anchor tag creator
+   * Default to using exisint <a> tag with the provided href={decoratedHref}, key={key}
+   * and children={decoratedText}, without additional styling
+   */
+  componentDecorator?: (decoratedHref: string, decoratedText: string, key: number) => React.ReactNode;
+  /**
+   * Custom href decorator or mapper on the matched (url) href
+   * Default to no transformation
+   */
+  hrefDecorator?: (urlHref: string) => string;
+  /**
+   * Custom matcher for (url), that returns each match with the matching information
+   * Default to https://github.com/markdown-it/linkify-it's LinkifyIt().tlds(tlds).match
+   */
+  matchDecorator?: (text: string) => MatchInfo[] | null;
+  /**
+   * Custom text decorator or mapper on the matched (url) text
+   * Default to no transformation
+   */
+  textDecorator?: (urlText: string) => string;
+}
+
+export default class ReactLinkify extends React.Component<Props> { }