diff --git a/.zenodo.json b/.zenodo.json
index b05453614..729243c20 100644
--- a/.zenodo.json
+++ b/.zenodo.json
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@
             "name": "Poldrack, Benjamin",
             "orcid": "0000-0001-7628-0801"
         },
+        {
+            "affiliation": "Institute of Climate and Energy Systems - Stratosphere (ICE-4), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany",
+            "name": "Riße, Matthias",
+            "orcid": "0009-0006-6081-9327"
+        },
         {
             "affiliation": "Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany",
             "name": "Szczepanik, Michał",
@@ -57,4 +62,4 @@
     "access_right": "open",
     "license": "MIT",
     "upload_type": "software"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/datalad_next/annexremotes/uncurl.py b/datalad_next/annexremotes/uncurl.py
index 2e9af4541..d1f3c3aaf 100644
--- a/datalad_next/annexremotes/uncurl.py
+++ b/datalad_next/annexremotes/uncurl.py
@@ -528,10 +528,13 @@ def _check_retrieve(
                 handler(url)
                 # we succeeded, no need to try again
                 return True
-            except UrlOperationsResourceUnknown:
-                # general system access worked, but at the key location is nothing
-                # to be found
-                return False
+            except (UrlOperationsResourceUnknown, ValueError):
+                # UrlOperationsResourceUnknown: general system access worked, but
+                # at the key location is nothing to be found
+                # ValueError: something else went wrong trying to handle the URL
+                # (e.g. unknown scheme)
+                # -> try the next URL
+                pass
             except UrlOperationsRemoteError as e:
                 # return False only if we could be sure that the remote
                 # system works properly and just the key is not around