diff --git a/nginx/nginx.conf b/nginx/nginx.conf
index 1555d354..db804a5d 100644
--- a/nginx/nginx.conf
+++ b/nginx/nginx.conf
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ http {
         }
 
         # broken link (now fixed) on https://noagendaphone.com/ with UTF-8 replacement character
-        location ~ "/\xEF\xBF\xBC" {
+        location ~ "^/\xEF\xBF\xBC$" {
             return 301 /;
         }