diff --git a/types/url-parse/index.d.ts b/types/url-parse/index.d.ts
index ce8f3647c2..6aed768de9 100644
--- a/types/url-parse/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/url-parse/index.d.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Type definitions for url-parse 1.1
 // Project: https://github.com/unshiftio/url-parse
 // Definitions by: Pavlo Chernenko <https://github.com/ChernenkoPaul>
+//                 Hari Sivaramakrishnan <https://github.com/harisiva>
 // Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
 // TypeScript Version: 2.2
 
@@ -8,28 +9,30 @@ import URLSearchParams = require("url-search-params");
 
 type UrlQueryParamsParser = (url: string) => string;
 
-declare class URL {
-    readonly auth: string;
-    readonly hash: string;
-    readonly host: string;
-    readonly hostname: string;
-    readonly href: string;
-    readonly origin: string;
-    readonly password: string;
-    readonly pathname: string;
-    readonly port: string;
-    readonly protocol: string;
-    query: { [key: string]: string | undefined };
-    readonly search: string;
-    set(property: string, value: string | object | number | undefined): URL;
-    readonly slashes: boolean;
-    readonly username: string;
-    readonly searchParams: URLSearchParams;
-    toString(): string;
+declare namespace parse {
+    interface URL {
+        readonly auth: string;
+        readonly hash: string;
+        readonly host: string;
+        readonly hostname: string;
+        readonly href: string;
+        readonly origin: string;
+        readonly password: string;
+        readonly pathname: string;
+        readonly port: string;
+        readonly protocol: string;
+        query: { [key: string]: string | undefined };
+        readonly search: string;
+        set(property: string, value: string | object | number | undefined): URL;
+        readonly slashes: boolean;
+        readonly username: string;
+        readonly searchParams: URLSearchParams;
+        toString(): string;
+    }
 }
 
-type ParseFunctionNodeType = (url: string, parseQueryString?: boolean, slashesDenoteHost?: boolean) => URL;
-type ParseFunctionType = (url: string, baseURL?: object | string, parser?: boolean | UrlQueryParamsParser) => URL;
+type ParseFunctionNodeType = (url: string, parseQueryString?: boolean, slashesDenoteHost?: boolean) => parse.URL;
+type ParseFunctionType = (url: string, baseURL?: object | string, parser?: boolean | UrlQueryParamsParser) => parse.URL;
 
 interface Protocol {
     slashes: boolean;
diff --git a/types/url-parse/url-parse-tests.ts b/types/url-parse/url-parse-tests.ts
index 48b2fa016d..61dc650ee1 100644
--- a/types/url-parse/url-parse-tests.ts
+++ b/types/url-parse/url-parse-tests.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import parse = require("url-parse");
 
 const url1 = new URL("foo/bar", "https://github.com/");
-const url2 = parse("https://github.com/foo/bar?baz=true");
-const url3 = parse("https://github.com/foo/bar", true, true);
-const url4 = parse("foo/bar", "https://github.com/");
-const url5 = parse("foo/bar", "https://github.com/", () => "queryParserOverride");
+const url2: parse.URL = parse("https://github.com/foo/bar?baz=true");
+const url3: parse.URL = parse("https://github.com/foo/bar", true, true);
+const url4: parse.URL = parse("foo/bar", "https://github.com/");
+const url5: parse.URL = parse("foo/bar", "https://github.com/", () => "queryParserOverride");
 
 url2.hash;
 url2.hostname;