diff --git a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/model/translators/VKeyTranslatorFactory.java b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/model/translators/VKeyTranslatorFactory.java
index 99615f879..113dc7da0 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/model/translators/VKeyTranslatorFactory.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/model/translators/VKeyTranslatorFactory.java
@@ -92,11 +92,6 @@ public class VKeyTranslatorFactory extends AbstractSimpleTranslatorFactory<VKey,
     }
   }
 
-  /** Create a VKey from a URL-safe string representation. */
-  public static VKey<?> createVKey(String urlSafe) {
-    return createVKey(com.googlecode.objectify.Key.create(urlSafe));
-  }
-
   @VisibleForTesting
   public static void addTestEntityClass(Class<?> clazz) {
     CLASS_REGISTRY.put(com.googlecode.objectify.Key.getKind(clazz), clazz);
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/google/registry/model/translators/VKeyTranslatorFactoryTest.java b/core/src/test/java/google/registry/model/translators/VKeyTranslatorFactoryTest.java
index 3cf7733fe..557bf2ff1 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/google/registry/model/translators/VKeyTranslatorFactoryTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/google/registry/model/translators/VKeyTranslatorFactoryTest.java
@@ -88,18 +88,6 @@ public class VKeyTranslatorFactoryTest {
     assertThat(vkey.getSqlKey()).isEqualTo(200L);
   }
 
-  @Test
-  void testUrlSafeKey() {
-    // Creating an objectify key instead of a datastore key as this should get a correctly formatted
-    // key path.
-    DomainBase domain = newDomainBase("example.com", "ROID-1", persistActiveContact("contact-1"));
-    Key<DomainBase> key = Key.create(domain);
-    VKey<DomainBase> vkey = (VKey<DomainBase>) VKeyTranslatorFactory.createVKey(key.getString());
-    assertThat(vkey.getKind()).isEqualTo(DomainBase.class);
-    assertThat(vkey.getOfyKey()).isEqualTo(key);
-    assertThat(vkey.getSqlKey()).isEqualTo("ROID-1");
-  }
-
   @Test
   void testExtraEntityClass() {
     TestObject testObject = TestObject.create("id", "field");
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/google/registry/persistence/VKeyTest.java b/core/src/test/java/google/registry/persistence/VKeyTest.java
index ad8d2d00c..7e506f400 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/google/registry/persistence/VKeyTest.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/google/registry/persistence/VKeyTest.java
@@ -15,11 +15,14 @@ package google.registry.persistence;
 
 import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
 import static com.google.common.truth.Truth8.assertThat;
+import static google.registry.testing.DatabaseHelper.newDomainBase;
+import static google.registry.testing.DatabaseHelper.persistActiveContact;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
 
 import com.googlecode.objectify.Key;
 import com.googlecode.objectify.annotation.Entity;
 import google.registry.model.billing.BillingEvent.OneTime;
+import google.registry.model.domain.DomainBase;
 import google.registry.model.registrar.RegistrarContact;
 import google.registry.testing.AppEngineExtension;
 import google.registry.testing.TestObject;
@@ -114,6 +117,19 @@ class VKeyTest {
         .contains("Missing value for last key of type class google.registry.testing.TestObject");
   }
 
+  @Test
+  void testFromWebsafeKey() {
+    // Creating an objectify key instead of a datastore key as this should get a correctly formatted
+    // key path.  We have to one of our actual model object classes for this, TestObject can not be
+    // reconstructed by the VKeyTranslatorFactory.
+    DomainBase domain = newDomainBase("example.com", "ROID-1", persistActiveContact("contact-1"));
+    Key<DomainBase> key = Key.create(domain);
+    VKey<DomainBase> vkey = VKey.fromWebsafeKey(key.getString());
+    assertThat(vkey.getKind()).isEqualTo(DomainBase.class);
+    assertThat(vkey.getOfyKey()).isEqualTo(key);
+    assertThat(vkey.getSqlKey()).isEqualTo("ROID-1");
+  }
+
   @Entity
   static class OtherObject {}
 }