diff --git a/src/AliasCleaner.php b/src/AliasCleaner.php
index 14c515b..ab7607e 100644
--- a/src/AliasCleaner.php
+++ b/src/AliasCleaner.php
@@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ class AliasCleaner implements AliasCleanerInterface {
       $output = mb_strtolower($output);
     }
 
+    // Remove any dot at the beginning.
+    $output = ltrim($output, '.');
+
     // Shorten to a logical place based on word boundaries.
     $output = Unicode::truncate($output, $this->cleanStringCache['maxlength'], TRUE);