diff --git a/interface/lib/classes/validate_domain.inc.php b/interface/lib/classes/validate_domain.inc.php
index 904fab2b2c3c6640a0214d0578b78e8de2729ec0..57187805cf926289f450b31088cf3540b36a7fb8 100644
--- a/interface/lib/classes/validate_domain.inc.php
+++ b/interface/lib/classes/validate_domain.inc.php
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ class validate_domain {
 
 	/* internal validator function to match regexp */
 	function _regex_validate($domain_name, $allow_wildcard = false) {
-		$pattern = '/^' . ($allow_wildcard == true ? '(\*\.)?' : '') . '[\w\.\-]{2,255}\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-]{1,30}$/';
+		$pattern = '/^' . ($allow_wildcard == true ? '(\*\.)?' : '') . '[\w\.\-]{1,255}\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-]{2,30}$/';
 		return preg_match($pattern, $domain_name);
 	}