diff --git a/docs/data-model.md b/docs/data-model.md
index 63f6e8d71..3be8996a1 100644
--- a/docs/data-model.md
+++ b/docs/data-model.md
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ flowchart LR
   `HTTPS://Pod.example:443/kortlekar-å` is
   `https://pod.example/kortlekar-%C3%A5/`. Text that's no http(s)
   address isn't an instance to attach (`notAnInstanceNoMeta`).
+  An instance with no title is named after its folder, with its
+  percent-encoding undone; a name whose escapes don't decode, such as
+  `caf%E9`, is shown as written (`lastPathSegment` in
+  [urls.ts](../packages/solid/src/urls.ts)). A registration that still
+  can't be read as an instance is left out, and the rest of the list
+  still loads.
 - **Each class of an instance's data** has a registration of its own,
   titled with the instance's name, for other apps ([examples
   below](#registrations)):
diff --git a/packages/solid/src/mappers/instanceMapper.test.ts b/packages/solid/src/mappers/instanceMapper.test.ts
index b08aed50d..e13c79faa 100644
--- a/packages/solid/src/mappers/instanceMapper.test.ts
+++ b/packages/solid/src/mappers/instanceMapper.test.ts
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ describe("toInstance", () => {
       name: "main",
     });
   });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["https://pod.example/solid-memo/caf%E9/", "caf%E9"],
+    ["https://pod.example/x%/", "x%"],
+    ["https://pod.example/%ZZ/", "%ZZ"],
+  ])("names an untitled %s by its segment as written when it does not decode", (url, name) => {
+    expect(toInstance({ containerUrl: url, title: null })).toEqual({ url, name });
+  });
 });
 
 const META = "https://pod.example/solid-memo/main/meta.ttl#it";
diff --git a/packages/solid/src/solidInstanceRepository.test.ts b/packages/solid/src/solidInstanceRepository.test.ts
index 017466ade..9df04e62b 100644
--- a/packages/solid/src/solidInstanceRepository.test.ts
+++ b/packages/solid/src/solidInstanceRepository.test.ts
@@ -115,6 +115,25 @@ describe("listInstances", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it("lists the others when one registration does not map", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(locateTypeIndexes).mockResolvedValue({
+      fetch: indexFetch,
+      inPlaces: () => true,
+      privateIndexUrl: PRIVATE_INDEX,
+      publicIndexUrl: null,
+    });
+    vi.mocked(readInstanceRegistrations).mockResolvedValueOnce([
+      { containerUrl: CONTAINER, title: "Main" },
+      { containerUrl: "not an address", title: null },
+      { containerUrl: "https://alice.example/x%E9/", title: null },
+    ]);
+
+    await expect(makeRepository().listInstances(WEBID)).resolves.toEqual([
+      { url: CONTAINER, name: "Main" },
+      { url: "https://alice.example/x%E9/", name: "x%E9" },
+    ]);
+  });
+
   it("skips missing indexes and tolerates unreadable ones", async () => {
     vi.mocked(locateTypeIndexes).mockResolvedValue({
       fetch: indexFetch,
@@ -508,14 +527,14 @@ describe("createInstance", () => {
 });
 
 describe("attachInstance", () => {
-  function metaDataset(withTitle: boolean) {
-    let thing = buildThing(createThing({ url: `${CONTAINER}meta.ttl#it` }))
+  function metaDataset(withTitle: boolean, container = CONTAINER) {
+    let thing = buildThing(createThing({ url: `${container}meta.ttl#it` }))
       .addIri("http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type", SM.Instance)
       .addDatetime(DCTERMS.created, new Date("2026-09-21T10:00:00.000Z"));
     if (withTitle) {
       thing = thing.addStringNoLocale(DCTERMS.title, "Attached");
     }
-    return setThing(datasetFrom(`${CONTAINER}meta.ttl`), thing.build());
+    return setThing(datasetFrom(`${container}meta.ttl`), thing.build());
   }
 
   it("registers an existing instance, and nothing else of it, and returns its name", async () => {
@@ -558,6 +577,20 @@ describe("attachInstance", () => {
     ).resolves.toEqual({ url: CONTAINER, name: "main" });
   });
 
+  it("names an untitled instance by its folder as written when the folder does not decode", async () => {
+    const container = "https://alice.example/x%E9/";
+    vi.mocked(readDocument).mockResolvedValue(readOf(metaDataset(false, container)));
+    vi.mocked(ensureTypeIndex).mockResolvedValue({ url: PRIVATE_INDEX, fetch: indexFetch });
+
+    await expect(
+      makeRepository().attachInstance({
+        webId: WEBID,
+        instanceUrl: container,
+        registrationTarget: "private",
+      }),
+    ).resolves.toEqual({ url: container, name: "x%E9" });
+  });
+
   it("rejects a container without a readable meta.ttl", async () => {
     vi.mocked(readDocument).mockRejectedValue(new Error("404"));
 
diff --git a/packages/solid/src/solidInstanceRepository.ts b/packages/solid/src/solidInstanceRepository.ts
index bb72ad659..52a928a61 100644
--- a/packages/solid/src/solidInstanceRepository.ts
+++ b/packages/solid/src/solidInstanceRepository.ts
@@ -89,7 +89,14 @@ export function createSolidInstanceRepository({
           if (!byUrl.has(url)) byUrl.set(url, registration);
         }
       }
-      return [...byUrl.values()].map(toInstance);
+      // One registration that does not map is left out, not the list.
+      return [...byUrl.values()].flatMap((registration) => {
+        try {
+          return [toInstance(registration)];
+        } catch {
+          return [];
+        }
+      });
     },
 
     async getRegistrationOptions(webId) {
diff --git a/packages/solid/src/urls.test.ts b/packages/solid/src/urls.test.ts
index 8ca486068..7f570d5ac 100644
--- a/packages/solid/src/urls.test.ts
+++ b/packages/solid/src/urls.test.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ describe("lastPathSegment", () => {
     expect(lastPathSegment("https://pod.example/mem%C3%B3/")).toBe("memó");
   });
 
+  it.each([
+    ["https://pod.example/solid-memo/caf%E9/", "caf%E9"],
+    ["https://pod.example/x%/", "x%"],
+    ["https://pod.example/%ZZ/", "%ZZ"],
+  ])("keeps %s's last segment as written when it does not decode", (url, segment) => {
+    expect(lastPathSegment(url)).toBe(segment);
+  });
+
   it("falls back to the input for a root URL", () => {
     expect(lastPathSegment("https://pod.example/")).toBe("https://pod.example/");
   });
diff --git a/packages/solid/src/urls.ts b/packages/solid/src/urls.ts
index e896adb77..f5936b840 100644
--- a/packages/solid/src/urls.ts
+++ b/packages/solid/src/urls.ts
@@ -4,9 +4,19 @@
 
 export { ensureTrailingSlash } from "@solid-memo/domain/instanceLayout";
 
-/** Last path segment of a URL, e.g. "japanese" for ".../solid-memo/japanese/". */
+/**
+ * Last path segment of a URL, e.g. "japanese" for ".../solid-memo/japanese/",
+ * with its percent-encoding undone. A segment whose escapes do not decode
+ * (a lone `%`, `%ZZ`, or bytes that are not UTF-8 such as `%E9`) is
+ * returned as written: an address a pod holds may carry any of them.
+ */
 export function lastPathSegment(url: string): string {
   const segments = new URL(url).pathname.split("/").filter((s) => s.length > 0);
   const last = segments[segments.length - 1];
-  return last === undefined ? url : decodeURIComponent(last);
+  if (last === undefined) return url;
+  try {
+    return decodeURIComponent(last);
+  } catch {
+    return last;
+  }
 }