diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/client/routing/appRouterRoutingInstrumentation.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/client/routing/appRouterRoutingInstrumentation.ts
index 9bb6e6288a84..b281d5121626 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/client/routing/appRouterRoutingInstrumentation.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/client/routing/appRouterRoutingInstrumentation.ts
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ export function appRouterInstrumentNavigation(client: Client): void {
 
 function transactionNameifyRouterArgument(target: string): string {
   try {
-    return new URL(target, 'http://some-random-base.com/').pathname;
+    // We provide an arbitrary base because we only care about the pathname and it makes URL parsing more resilient.
+    return new URL(target, 'http://example.com/').pathname;
   } catch {
     return '/';
   }