e-commerce regulations 2002

seanc · Aug 26, 2008

i have received a complaint from the Trading Standards office regarding a domain and the contact information not beeing shown on a parked page.

is this anything to worry about?
are sedo following the guidelines?

here is the email;
Hi Sean,

We have received a complaint from a member of the public stating that the website does not comply with the e-commerce regulations 2002.

These regulations require certain contact information to be displayed on the site. I have included a guidance document that explains the requirements of the regulations.

grantw · Aug 26, 2008

I had this a while back and ended up having a custom link on all my namedrive landing pages that displayed my name/address! It's not straight forward as you own the domain, the actual page is owned by the parking company and the content is supplied by google. Going by their logic, if you forwarded the domain to ebay they would expect your name/address to appear on Ebay becuase you are the domain owner - craziness!

After a few days of arguing I gave up as they were showing no sign of backing down! If you don't do what they say they have the power to fine you.

Grant