diff --git a/app/lib/tag_manager.rb b/app/lib/tag_manager.rb
index fe051d87..aaee7ef5 100644
--- a/app/lib/tag_manager.rb
+++ b/app/lib/tag_manager.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ class TagManager
   def normalize_link(link)
     return if link.nil?
     uri = Addressable::URI.parse(link)
-    return "#{uri.normalized_host}#{uri.normalized_path}".strip
+    return "#{uri.domain}#{uri.normalized_path}".strip
+  end
+
+  def normalize_link_domain(link)
+    return if link.nil?
+    uri = Addressable::URI.parse(link)
+    return "#{uri.domain}".strip
   end
 
   def same_acct?(canonical, needle)
diff --git a/app/models/link_block.rb b/app/models/link_block.rb
index ad00966c..7304c9fb 100644
--- a/app/models/link_block.rb
+++ b/app/models/link_block.rb
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ class LinkBlock < ApplicationRecord
     link_for_fetch = TagManager.instance.normalize_link(url)
     link_for_fetch = link_for_fetch.chomp("/")
 
-    where("LOWER(link) LIKE LOWER(?)", "%#{link_for_fetch}%").exists?
+    domain_for_fetch = TagManager.instance.normalize_link_domain(url)
+
+    where("LOWER(link) LIKE LOWER(?)", "%#{link_for_fetch}").or(
+      where("LOWER(link) LIKE LOWER(?)", "#{domain_for_fetch}")
+    ).exists?
   end
 end