diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/faforever/icebreaker/service/xirsys/XirsysSessionHandler.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/faforever/icebreaker/service/xirsys/XirsysSessionHandler.kt
index 799c5b8..f772546 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/faforever/icebreaker/service/xirsys/XirsysSessionHandler.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/faforever/icebreaker/service/xirsys/XirsysSessionHandler.kt
@@ -19,11 +19,6 @@ class XirsysSessionHandler(
 ) : SessionHandler {
     companion object {
         const val SERVER_NAME = "xirsys.com"
-
-        private val regionalUriRegex = Regex(pattern = "(?<protocol>\\w+):[\\w-]+\\.xirsys\\.com(?<query>.*)")
-        private val regionalUriReplace = "\${protocol}://global.xirsys.net\${query}"
-        fun normalizeAndReplaceUriWithGlobal(regionalUri: String) =
-            regionalUriRegex.replace(input = regionalUri, replacement = regionalUriReplace)
     }
 
     private val xirsysClient: XirsysClient = RestClientBuilder.newBuilder()
@@ -108,7 +103,7 @@ class XirsysSessionHandler(
                             // A sample response looks like "stun:fr-turn1.xirsys.com"
                             // The java URI class fails to read host and port due to the missing // after the :
                             // Thus we "normalize" the uri, even though it is technically valid
-                            normalizeAndReplaceUriWithGlobal(url)
+                            url.replaceFirst(":", "://")
                         },
                     ),
                 )
diff --git a/src/test/kotlin/com/faforever/icebreaker/service/xirsys/XirsysSessionHandlerTest.kt b/src/test/kotlin/com/faforever/icebreaker/service/xirsys/XirsysSessionHandlerTest.kt
deleted file mode 100644
index 18ddbeb..0000000
--- a/src/test/kotlin/com/faforever/icebreaker/service/xirsys/XirsysSessionHandlerTest.kt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-package com.faforever.icebreaker.service.xirsys
-
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
-
-class XirsysSessionHandlerTest {
-    @Test
-    fun `it should replace xirsys urls with global one and normalize the protocol`() {
-        val input = "stun:fr-turn1.xirsys.com"
-
-        val result = XirsysSessionHandler.normalizeAndReplaceUriWithGlobal(input)
-
-        assertEquals("stun://global.xirsys.net", result)
-    }
-}