diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 456d6cd2b..337f9b677 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ Bugs fixed
   config value for 'version' and 'release'.
 * #2102: On Windows + Py3, using ``|today|`` and non-ASCII date format will raise
   UnicodeEncodeError.
+* #1974: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'domain' referenced before assignment when
+  using `any` role and `sphinx.ext.intersphinx` in same time.
 
 Release 1.3.1 (released Mar 17, 2015)
 =====================================
diff --git a/sphinx/ext/intersphinx.py b/sphinx/ext/intersphinx.py
index bbfeab663..b0a7fda8f 100644
--- a/sphinx/ext/intersphinx.py
+++ b/sphinx/ext/intersphinx.py
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ def missing_reference(app, env, node, contnode):
         objtypes = ['%s:%s' % (domain.name, objtype)
                     for domain in env.domains.values()
                     for objtype in domain.object_types]
+        domain = None
     else:
         domain = node.get('refdomain')
         if not domain: