diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index fc3e8e002..de9557ddc 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #2062: Escape characters in doctests are treated incorrectly with Python 2.
 * #2225: Fix if the option does not begin with dash, linking is not performed
 * #2226: Fix math is not HTML-encoded when :nowrap: is given (jsmath, mathjax)
+* #1601, #2220: 'any' role breaks extended domains behavior. Affected extensions doesn't
+  support resolve_any_xref and resolve_xref returns problematic node instead of None.
+  sphinxcontrib-httpdomain is one of them.
 
 Release 1.3.3 (released Dec 2, 2015)
 ====================================
diff --git a/sphinx/environment.py b/sphinx/environment.py
index 5d2107299..355901cc9 100644
--- a/sphinx/environment.py
+++ b/sphinx/environment.py
@@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@ class BuildEnvironment:
                 for role in domain.roles:
                     res = domain.resolve_xref(self, refdoc, builder, role, target,
                                               node, contnode)
-                    if res:
+                    if res and isinstance(res[0], nodes.Element):
                         results.append(('%s:%s' % (domain.name, role), res))
         # now, see how many matches we got...
         if not results: