diff --git a/app/services/partial_search_formatter.rb b/app/services/partial_search_formatter.rb
index aa783dc81..ca364630c 100644
--- a/app/services/partial_search_formatter.rb
+++ b/app/services/partial_search_formatter.rb
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 class PartialSearchFormatter
   def self.format(params)
     search_params = params.deep_dup
-
+    
     search_params.each do |key, value|
       next unless should_format?(key, value)
-
       search_params[key] = format_value(value)
     end
 
diff --git a/test/integration/admin_area/domain_test.rb b/test/integration/admin_area/domain_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bae55fc55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/admin_area/domain_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+require 'test_helper'
+
+class Admin::DomainsControllerTest < ApplicationIntegrationTest
+    setup do
+        sign_in users(:admin)
+        @john = contacts(:john)
+        @john.update!(ident: '1234-1234') # ident with hyphen
+        registrant = @john.becomes(Registrant)
+        @domain = domains(:shop)
+        @domain.update!(registrant: registrant) # make sure the domain is linked to registrant
+    end
+
+    def test_search_by_hyphenated_registrant_ident_should_succeed
+        get admin_domains_path, params: { q: { registrant_ident_matches: '1234-1234' } }
+        assert_response :success
+        assert_includes @response.body, @domain.name,
+        "Search should find domain when searching by hyphenated registrant ident"
+    end
+
+    def test_search_by_hyphenated_contact_ident_should_succeed
+        get admin_domains_path, params: { q: { contacts_ident_matches: '1234-1234' } }
+        assert_response :success
+        assert_includes @response.body, @domain.name,
+        "Search should find domain when searching by hyphenated contact ident"
+    end
+end