A plan to create an internet domain specifically for adult websites will be resurrected three years after it was rejected by internet regulators.
The net’s governing body Icann will reconsider the .xxx scheme on 12 March.
Icann had previously given the domain the go ahead in 2005, but reversed the decision two years later amidst protests from US conservative groups.
An independent review recently concluded that decision was unfair and that the plan should be reconsidered.
Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has now confirmed to BBC News that its board will discuss the plan at its meeting in Nairobi, Kenya and could decide to back the proposals.
“If the contract is signed, we could be selling names by the end of the year,” said Stuart Lawley, chairman of ICM Registry, which put forward the plans for .xxx and would sell the domain names.
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