diff --git a/server/src/uds/services/OpenShift/provider.py b/server/src/uds/services/OpenShift/provider.py
index f2991c3cb..d9c42610b 100644
--- a/server/src/uds/services/OpenShift/provider.py
+++ b/server/src/uds/services/OpenShift/provider.py
@@ -125,18 +125,6 @@ def test(
     # Utility
     def sanitized_name(self, name: str) -> str:
         """
-        Sanitizes the VM name to comply with RFC 1123:
-        - Converts to lowercase
-        - Replaces any character not in [a-z0-9.-] with '-'
-        - Collapses multiple '-' into one
-        - Removes leading/trailing non-alphanumeric characters
-        - Limits length to 63 characters
+        OpenShift only allows machine names with [a-zA-Z0-9_-]
         """
-        name = name.lower()
-        # Replace any character not allowed with '-'
-        name = re.sub(r'[^a-z0-9.-]', '-', name)
-        # Collapse multiple '-' into one
-        name = re.sub(r'-{2,}', '-', name)
-        # Remove leading/trailing non-alphanumeric characters
-        name = re.sub(r'^[^a-z0-9]+|[^a-z0-9]+$', '', name)
-        return name[:63]
\ No newline at end of file
+        return re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9-]', '-', name).lower()[:63]
diff --git a/server/tests/services/openshift/test_provider.py b/server/tests/services/openshift/test_provider.py
index 69abc0d9f..797f56477 100644
--- a/server/tests/services/openshift/test_provider.py
+++ b/server/tests/services/openshift/test_provider.py
@@ -134,9 +134,9 @@ def test_sanitized_name(self) -> None:
         test_cases = [
             ('Test-VM-1', 'test-vm-1'),
             ('Test_VM@2', 'test-vm-2'),
-            ('My Test VM!!!', 'my-test-vm'),
-            ('Test !!! this is', 'test-this-is'),
-            ('UDS-Pub-Hello World!!--2025065122-v1', 'uds-pub-hello-world-2025065122-v1'),
+            ('My Test VM!!!', 'my-test-vm---'),
+            ('Test !!! this is', 'test-----this-is'),
+            ('UDS-Pub-Hello World!!--2025065122-v1', 'uds-pub-hello-world----2025065122-v1'),
             ('a' * 100, 'a' * 63),  # Test truncation
         ]
         for input_name, expected in test_cases: