Legal situation in France re: parking pages

[simon johnson]

I noticed that when you preview a French domain in Sedo, they state: "Due to the specific legal situation in France, a standard portal page will be shown for french traffic". Does anyone know what the situation is?

[tomsa]

The standard portal is only shown to visitors coming from France (not from french speaking area like Canada, Switzerland, Belgium etc).

I assume it is due to some problems between french TM domains and targeted ads on the parking page.

[socalboy]

Simon,

Tomsa (Guillaume) is correct in part. He's right in that it only affects traffic coming directly from France. However, it's due to a new law from the French government. If you look through Sedo's old news releases, they have a more detailed explanation.

Eric