TopHosts.Com Launches Third European Portal in France—FR.TopHosts.Com

Toronto, ON / March 15, 2002 / VerticalScope Inc. / After two highly successful European launches in Germany and the UK, TopHosts.Com is now in France. FR.TopHosts.Com will provide valuable insight into the French hosting market with assessment of emerging trends and in-depth exploration of industry participants and their products and services. Combined with proprietary technology, relevant and timely articles, and feature guides, FR.TopHosts.Com is the right resource for the burgeoning French hosting marketplace.

"Web hosts in France and the major pan-European providers that compete there, now have a site that will serve to both educate those people looking for hosting services and a proven vehicle to develop successful targeted marketing strategies," said Rob Laidlaw, President of VerticalScope, parent company to the TopHosts.Com sites—in Australia, Canada, US, UK, and Germany.

To fulfill the numerous requests made by several major industry players such as Jet Multimedia, Colt Telecom and France Telecom along with up and coming players such as Webcentrale and Serveur Express, FR.TopHosts.Com's dedicated sales executives will be in France during the week of March 18th to introduce the site and discuss the tremendous benefits of online partnerships.

"We see this as an excellent opportunity to introduce and demonstrate how effectively FR.TopHosts.Com can match customers to web hosts, "said Peter O’Neill, Vice President of Sales at VerticalScope. "Based on solid success and excessive traffic flow to our two other European sites— UK.TopHosts.Com and DE.TopHosts.Com— our French site will build momentum and capture the web hosting community in France."

About FR.TopHosts.Com

FR.TopHosts.Com is quickly becoming the Internet authority on French Web hosting. With more than four years of experience and proprietary technology associated with TopHosts.Com, Web developers, Webmasters, and E-commerce businesses in France now have access to the most comprehensive, up-to-date information and tools available.

Thousands of small business owners worldwide have visited TopHosts.Com to search the host database, review the monthly Top 25 ranked hosts, and access the extensive Webmaster resources which can guide any business from inception to hosting. Visit www.fr.tophosts.com.

About VerticalScope Inc.

Toronto-based VerticalScope Inc. is a world leader in creating resources for the SME market. Through an array of niche-specific resource portals, VerticalScope tracks and covers market developments with incisive, digestible content. Its powerful proprietary tools bring companies together, and have allowed hundreds of thousands of visitors to locate their ideal business partners. Visit www.verticalscope.com.