diff --git a/crawler.py b/crawler.py
index ff6cb47..4e6c723 100644
--- a/crawler.py
+++ b/crawler.py
@@ -134,15 +134,6 @@ def filteringcon(filters_regex_one):
     print('dnsmasq filtering Operation Completed!')
     f.close()
 
-    with open(filters_regex_one) as f:
-        file = f.read().split('\n')
-        for i in range(len(file)):
-            file[i] = re.sub('^\.', '', file[i])
-    with open(filters_regex_one, 'w') as f1:
-        f1.writelines(["%s\n" % item  for item in file])
-    print('additional filtering Operation Completed!')
-    f.close()
-
     remove_words = ['localhost','localhost.localdomain','local','broadcasthost','loopback','ip6-localnet','ip6-mcastprefix','ip6-allnodes','ip6-allrouters','ip6-allhosts','ip6-loopback',' CNAME rpz-passthru.']
     
     with open(filters_regex_one, 'r') as f: