How to use Blacklist?

How must be the entries on the Blacklist to block the whole Domain and Subdomains like xyz.domainname.com?

www.domainname.com or domainname.com ?

bassically putting xyz.domain.com will just block xyz.domain.com.
putting domain.com on the blacklist will block domain.com (evidently) and ALL it subdomains (including www.domain.com and xyz.domain.com)

[quote="Wilfred_Klein, post:2, topic:189, full:true"]putting domain.com on the blacklist will block domain.com (evidently) and ALL it subdomains (including www.domain.com and xyz.domain.com)
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Arrrgghhhh ... domain.com is not working ...

Wildcard support to block all of domain.com and *.domain.com is an as of yet to be implemented feature request. Be sure to vote for it in the feature request section: Wildcard support for domain black/white listing

Right now all you can do is customize your installation manually to block all of a domain, check out this post:

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/672#issuecomment-247863064

(also be sure to service dnsmasq restart / systemctl restart dnsmasq afterward your manual config modifications)