XMPP allows for internationalized domain names. We don't actually support IDNA for connecting (AFAIK), but we need to be able to receive stanzas from such users. This check might be overly accepting of some non-ASCII that wouldn't properly convert according to RFC3490. See http://xmpp.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xmpp-3920bis-00.html#addressing-domain and http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3490