Quad9 is leaving France over pirate site blocking orders, which makes it the second DNS resolver to leave the country. Quad9 will stop serving French users on November 24, after a Paris court set a €1,000 daily penalty for not blocking pirate tennis streams. Faced with this order and roughly 20 other pending French cases, Quad9 says that it has no other viable option left.
Weren’t they located in Switzerland?
They’re suspending service to French users, not physically leaving (I don’t know where they are). It seems they’re not sure how to do that, though.