diff --git a/advanced/Scripts/list.sh b/advanced/Scripts/list.sh
index 828bb2bc..d2438a43 100755
--- a/advanced/Scripts/list.sh
+++ b/advanced/Scripts/list.sh
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ EscapeRegexp() {
     # This way we may safely insert an arbitrary
     # string in our regular expressions
     # Also remove leading "." if present
-    echo $* | sed 's/^\.//' | sed "s/[]\\.|$(){}?+*^]/\\\\&/g" | sed "s/\\//\\\\\//g"
+    echo $* | sed 's/^\.*//' | sed "s/[]\.|$(){}?+*^]/\\\\&/g" | sed "s/\\//\\\\\//g"
 }
 
 HandleOther(){
@@ -66,11 +66,12 @@ HandleOther(){
 	domain=$(sed -e "y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/" <<< "$1")
 
 	#check validity of domain
-	validDomain=$(echo "${domain}" | perl -lne 'print $1 if /^(?!.*[^a-z0-9-\.].*)\b((?=[a-z0-9-]{1,63}\.)(xn--)?[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*\.)+[a-z]{2,63}\b/')
+	validDomain=$(echo "${domain}" | perl -lne 'print if /^(?!.*[^a-z0-9-\.].*)\b((?=[a-z0-9-]{1,63}\.)(xn--)?[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*\.)*[a-z]{2,63}\b/')
+	echo $validDomain
 	if [ -z "${validDomain}" ]; then
 		echo "::: $1 is not a valid argument or domain name"
 	else
-		domList=("${domList[@]}" ${domain})
+		domList=("${domList[@]}" ${validDomain})
 	fi
 }