diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/shared/DOMProperty.js b/src/renderers/dom/shared/DOMProperty.js
index 69c18dd56ebb3..06830c65deb7b 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/shared/DOMProperty.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/shared/DOMProperty.js
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ var DOMPropertyInjection = {
 };
 var defaultValueCache = {};
 
+var ATTRIBUTE_NAME_START_CHAR = ':A-Z_a-z\\u00C0-\\u00D6\\u00D8-\\u00F6\\u00F8-\\u02FF\\u0370-\\u037D\\u037F-\\u1FFF\\u200C-\\u200D\\u2070-\\u218F\\u2C00-\\u2FEF\\u3001-\\uD7FF\\uF900-\\uFDCF\\uFDF0-\\uFFFD';
+
 /**
  * DOMProperty exports lookup objects that can be used like functions:
  *
@@ -168,6 +170,9 @@ var DOMProperty = {
 
   ID_ATTRIBUTE_NAME: 'data-reactid',
 
+  ATTRIBUTE_NAME_START_CHAR: ATTRIBUTE_NAME_START_CHAR,
+  ATTRIBUTE_NAME_CHAR: ATTRIBUTE_NAME_START_CHAR + '\\-.0-9\\uB7\\u0300-\\u036F\\u203F-\\u2040',
+
   /**
    * Map from property "standard name" to an object with info about how to set
    * the property in the DOM. Each object contains:
diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/shared/DOMPropertyOperations.js b/src/renderers/dom/shared/DOMPropertyOperations.js
index 7eb8240377615..2dc805dfb98ee 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/shared/DOMPropertyOperations.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/shared/DOMPropertyOperations.js
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ var ReactPerf = require('ReactPerf');
 var quoteAttributeValueForBrowser = require('quoteAttributeValueForBrowser');
 var warning = require('warning');
 
-// Simplified subset
-var VALID_ATTRIBUTE_NAME_REGEX = /^[a-zA-Z_][\w\.\-]*$/;
+var VALID_ATTRIBUTE_NAME_REGEX = new RegExp('^[' + DOMProperty.ATTRIBUTE_NAME_START_CHAR + '][' + DOMProperty.ATTRIBUTE_NAME_CHAR + ']*$');
 var illegalAttributeNameCache = {};
 var validatedAttributeNameCache = {};
 
diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/shared/HTMLDOMPropertyConfig.js b/src/renderers/dom/shared/HTMLDOMPropertyConfig.js
index b36b2c5126a22..17c096844fb81 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/shared/HTMLDOMPropertyConfig.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/shared/HTMLDOMPropertyConfig.js
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ if (ExecutionEnvironment.canUseDOM) {
 
 var HTMLDOMPropertyConfig = {
   isCustomAttribute: RegExp.prototype.test.bind(
-    /^(data|aria)-[a-z_][a-z\d_.\-]*$/
+    new RegExp('^(data|aria)-[' + DOMProperty.ATTRIBUTE_NAME_CHAR + ']*$')
   ),
   Properties: {
     /**