diff --git a/lib/decode_url.js b/lib/decode_url.js
index fe3fbf70..5793352a 100644
--- a/lib/decode_url.js
+++ b/lib/decode_url.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const { parse, URL } = require('url');
-const { toUnicode } = require('punycode.js');
+const { parse, format } = require('url');
 
 const safeDecodeURI = str => {
   try {
@@ -18,8 +17,7 @@ const decodeURL = str => {
     // Exit if input is a data url
     if (parsed.origin === 'null') return str;
 
-    // TODO: refactor to `url.format()` once Node 8 is dropped
-    const url = parsed.toString().replace(parsed.hostname, toUnicode(parsed.hostname));
+    const url = format(parsed, { unicode: true });
     return safeDecodeURI(url);
   }
 
diff --git a/lib/encode_url.js b/lib/encode_url.js
index 78b084a1..3579e140 100644
--- a/lib/encode_url.js
+++ b/lib/encode_url.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const { toUnicode } = require('punycode.js');
-const { parse, URL } = require('url');
+const { parse, format } = require('url');
 
 const safeDecodeURI = str => {
   try {
@@ -20,8 +19,7 @@ const encodeURL = str => {
 
     parsed.search = encodeURI(safeDecodeURI(parsed.search));
     // preserve IDN
-    // TODO: refactor to url.format() once Node 8 EOL
-    return parsed.toString().replace(parsed.hostname, toUnicode(parsed.hostname));
+    return format(parsed, { unicode: true });
   }
 
   return encodeURI(safeDecodeURI(str));
diff --git a/lib/full_url_for.js b/lib/full_url_for.js
index 68c14bc6..27233843 100755
--- a/lib/full_url_for.js
+++ b/lib/full_url_for.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const { parse, URL } = require('url');
+const { parse } = require('url');
 const encodeURL = require('./encode_url');
 const prettyUrls = require('./pretty_urls');
 
diff --git a/lib/is_external_link.js b/lib/is_external_link.js
index 86eeec70..2915bb8c 100644
--- a/lib/is_external_link.js
+++ b/lib/is_external_link.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const { parse, URL } = require('url');
+const { parse } = require('url');
 
 const Cache = require('./cache');
 const cache = new Cache();
diff --git a/lib/url_for.js b/lib/url_for.js
index d3a8fe68..cbfdb6ca 100644
--- a/lib/url_for.js
+++ b/lib/url_for.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const { parse, URL } = require('url');
+const { parse } = require('url');
 const encodeURL = require('./encode_url');
 const relative_url = require('./relative_url');
 const prettyUrls = require('./pretty_urls');
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 580d5447..3bb63385 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -50,11 +50,10 @@
     "highlight.js": "^9.13.1",
     "htmlparser2": "^4.0.0",
     "prismjs": "^1.17.1",
-    "punycode.js": "^2.1.0",
     "strip-indent": "^3.0.0",
     "striptags": "^3.1.1"
   },
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=8.6.0"
+    "node": ">=10.18.1"
   }
 }