Outbound link tracking issue when subdomain links to primary domain

We have a news room site at a subdomain and wish to track links to the primary domain as outbound.

For instance:

newsroom.example.com
https://www.example.com

The plugin is installed and outbound links to domains other than example.com work as expected. We can see the JavaScript code in the link when viewing page source in a browser.

However, when a newsroom.example.com page has links to https://www.example.com, no outbound tracking code is added to those links.

This is puzzling as it seems to think both domains are the same for tracking purposes.

Any insight as to why this is?

Thanks,
Brad

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