diff --git a/lib/fetchers/url.rb b/lib/fetchers/url.rb
index 97bfdaac8..180e6cf61 100644
--- a/lib/fetchers/url.rb
+++ b/lib/fetchers/url.rb
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ module Fetchers
     # https://bitbucket.org/username/repo/commits/95ce1f83d5bbe9eec34c5973f6894617e8d6d8cc is transformed to
     # https://bitbucket.org/username/repo/get/95ce1f83d5bbe9eec34c5973f6894617e8d6d8cc.tar.gz
 
-    GITHUB_URL_REGEX = %r{^https?://(www\.)?github\.com/(?<user>[\w-]+)/(?<repo>[\w-]+)(\.git)?(/)?$}
-    GITHUB_URL_WITH_TREE_REGEX = %r{^https?://(www\.)?github\.com/(?<user>[\w-]+)/(?<repo>[\w-]+)/tree/(?<commit>[\w\.]+)(/)?$}
+    GITHUB_URL_REGEX = %r{^https?://(www\.)?github\.com/(?<user>[\w-]+)/(?<repo>[\w.-]+?)(\.git)?(/)?$}
+    GITHUB_URL_WITH_TREE_REGEX = %r{^https?://(www\.)?github\.com/(?<user>[\w-]+)/(?<repo>[\w.-]+)/tree/(?<commit>[\w\.]+)(/)?$}
     BITBUCKET_URL_REGEX = %r{^https?://(www\.)?bitbucket\.org/(?<user>[\w-]+)/(?<repo>[\w-]+)(\.git)?(/)?$}
     BITBUCKET_URL_BRANCH_REGEX = %r{^https?://(www\.)?bitbucket\.org/(?<user>[\w-]+)/(?<repo>[\w-]+)/branch/(?<branch>[\w\.]+)(/)?$}
     BITBUCKET_URL_COMMIT_REGEX = %r{^https?://(www\.)?bitbucket\.org/(?<user>[\w-]+)/(?<repo>[\w-]+)/commits/(?<commit>[\w\.]+)(/)?$}
diff --git a/test/unit/fetchers/url_test.rb b/test/unit/fetchers/url_test.rb
index c2bed00da..2c5990e77 100644
--- a/test/unit/fetchers/url_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/fetchers/url_test.rb
@@ -78,6 +78,16 @@ describe Fetchers::Url do
       end
     end
 
+    it "resolves a github url with dot" do
+      expect_url_transform do
+        github = 'https://github.com/mitre/aws-rds-oracle-mysql-ee-5.7-cis-baseline'
+        res = Fetchers::Url.resolve(github)
+        res.expects(:open).returns(mock_open)
+        _(res).wont_be_nil
+        _(res.resolved_source).must_equal({url: 'https://github.com/mitre/aws-rds-oracle-mysql-ee-5.7-cis-baseline/archive/master.tar.gz', sha256: expected_shasum})
+      end
+    end
+
     it "resolves a github branch url" do
       expect_url_transform do
         github = 'https://github.com/hardening-io/tests-os-hardening/tree/2.0'