diff --git a/lib/internal/url.js b/lib/internal/url.js
index 8d14a26ecb3617..965f647c2784dd 100644
--- a/lib/internal/url.js
+++ b/lib/internal/url.js
@@ -246,14 +246,7 @@ function onParseError(flags, input) {
 // Reused by URL constructor and URL#href setter.
 function parse(url, input, base) {
   const base_context = base ? base[context] : undefined;
-  // In the URL#href setter
-  if (!url[context]) {
-    Object.defineProperty(url, context, {
-      enumerable: false,
-      configurable: false,
-      value: new URLContext()
-    });
-  }
+  url[context] = new URLContext();
   _parse(input.trim(), -1, base_context, undefined,
          onParseComplete.bind(url), onParseError);
 }
@@ -1381,11 +1374,7 @@ function toPathIfFileURL(fileURLOrPath) {
 }
 
 function NativeURL(ctx) {
-  Object.defineProperty(this, context, {
-    enumerable: false,
-    configurable: false,
-    value: ctx
-  });
+  this[context] = ctx;
 }
 NativeURL.prototype = URL.prototype;
 
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-whatwg-url-custom-no-enumerable-context.js b/test/parallel/test-whatwg-url-custom-no-enumerable-context.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f24a47b6d5c8f0..00000000000000
--- a/test/parallel/test-whatwg-url-custom-no-enumerable-context.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-'use strict';
-// This tests that the context of URL objects are not
-// enumerable and thus considered by assert libraries.
-// See https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/24211
-
-// Tests below are not from WPT.
-
-require('../common');
-const assert = require('assert');
-
-assert.deepStrictEqual(
-  new URL('./foo', 'https://example.com/'),
-  new URL('https://example.com/foo')
-);