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.Net, .Org Registration Agreement (Exhibit A)
gTLD Registration Agreement (Exhibit A)
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer
to each customer, "we", us" and "our" refer
to Tucows.com Inc. and "Services" refers to the domain name
registration provided by us as offered through I.
T. Doctor, the Registration Service Provider ("RSP").
This Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations
to us for various Services.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to the best of the
your knowledge and belief, neither the registration of the SLD name nor
the manner in which it is directly or indirectly used infringes the legal
rights of a third party and that the Domain Name is not being registered
for any unlawful purpose.
3. FEES. As consideration for the services you have selected, you agree
to pay to us, or your respective RSP who remits payment to us on your
behalf, the applicable service(s) fees. All fees payable hereunder are
non-refundable. As further consideration for the Services, you agree
to: (1) provide certain current, complete and accurate information about
you as required by the registration process and (2) maintain and update
this information as needed to keep it current, complete and accurate.
All such information shall be referred to as account information ("Account
Information"). You, by completing and submitting this Agreement
represent that the statements in your application are true.
4. TERM. You agree that the Registration Agreement will remain in full
force during the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration.
Should you choose to renew or otherwise lengthen the term of your Domain
Name Registration, then the term of this Registration Agreement will
be extended accordingly. This Agreement will remain in full force during
the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration as selected,
recorded, and paid for upon registration of the Domain Name. Should you
choose to renew or otherwise lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration,
then the term of this Registration Agreement will be extended accordingly.
Should you transfer your domain name or should the domain name otherwise
be transferred due to another Registrar, the terms and conditions of
this contract shall cease and shall be replaced by the contractual terms
in force for the purpose of registering domain names then in force between
SLD holders and the new Registrar.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree, during the period of this
Agreement, that we may: (1) revise the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
and (2) change the services provided under this Agreement. Any such revision
or change will be binding and effective immediately on posting of the
revised Agreement or change to the service(s) on our web site, or on
notification to you by e-mail or regular mail as per the Notices section
of this agreement. You agree to review our web site, including the Agreement,
periodically to be aware of any such revisions. If you do not agree with
any revision to the Agreement, you may terminate this Agreement at any
time by providing us with notice by e-mail or regular mail as per the
Notices section of this agreement. Notice of your termination will be
effective on receipt and processing by us. You agree that, by continuing
to use the Services following notice of any revision to this Agreement
or change in service(s), you shall abide by any such revisions or changes.
You further agree to abide by the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
("Dispute Policy") as amended from time to time. You agree
that, by maintaining the reservation or registration of your domain name
after modifications to the Dispute Policy become effective, you have
agreed to these modifications. You acknowledge that if you do not agree
to any such modifications, you may request that your domain name be deleted
from the domain name database.
6. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In order to change any of your account
information with us, you must use your Account Identifier and Password
that you selected when you opened your account with us. Please safeguard
your Account Identifier and Password from any unauthorized use. In no
event will we be liable for the unauthorized use or misuse of your Account
Identifier or Password.
7. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY. If you reserved or registered a domain
name through us, or transferred a domain name to us from another registrar,
you agree to be bound by the Dispute Policy which is incorporated herein
and made a part of this Agreement by reference. The current version of
the Dispute Policy may be found at http://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs/legal.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this policy.
8. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You agree that, if the registration or reservation
of your domain name is challenged by a third party, you will be subject
to the provisions specified in the Dispute Policy in effect at the time
of the dispute. You agree that in the event a domain name dispute arises
with any third party, you will indemnify and hold us harmless pursuant
to the terms and conditions contained in the Dispute Policy. For any
dispute, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of The
Province of Ontario.
9. ICANN POLICY. You agree that your registration of the SLD name shall
be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any ICANN-adopted
policy, or pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent
with an ICANN-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes by Registrar or
the Registry in registering the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes
concerning the SLD name.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend to license use of a domain name to a third
party you shall nonetheless be the SLD holder of record and are therefore
responsible for providing your own full contact information and for providing
and updating accurate technical and administrative contact information
adequate to facilitate timely resolution of any problems that arise in
connection with the SLD. You shall accept liability for harm caused by
wrongful use of the SLD, unless you promptly disclose the identity of
the licensee to the party providing you reasonable evidence of actionable
harm. You also represent that you have provided notice of the terms and
conditions in this Agreement to the third party and that the third party
agrees to the terms of Disclosure and Use of Registration Information
(sections 18 and 19 of this Agreement).
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We and the RSP reserve the right to distribute information
to you that is pertinent to the quality or operation of our services
and those of our service partners. These announcements will be predominately
informative in nature and may include notices describing changes, upgrades,
new products or other information to add security or to enhance your
identity on the Internet.
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. You agree that our entire liability, and
your exclusive remedy, with respect to any Services(s) provided under
this Agreement and any breach of this Agreement is solely limited to
the amount you paid for such Service(s). We and our contractors shall
not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential
damages resulting from the use or inability to use any of the Services
or for the cost of procurement of substitute services. Because some states
do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential
or incidental damages, in such states, our liability is limited to the
extent permitted by law. We disclaim any and all loss or liability resulting
from, but not limited to: (1) loss or liability resulting from access
delays or access interruptions; (2) loss or liability resulting from
data non-delivery or data mis-delivery; (3) loss or liability resulting
from acts of God; (4) loss or liability resulting from the unauthorized
use or misuse of your account identifier or password; (5) loss or liability
resulting from errors, omissions, or misstatements in any and all information
or services(s) provided under this Agreement; (6) loss or liability resulting
from the interruption of your Service. You agree that we will not be
liable for any loss of registration and use of your domain name, or for
interruption of business, or any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential
damages of any kind (including lost profits) regardless of the form of
action whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise,
even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no
event shall our maximum liability exceed five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
13. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our contractors,
agents, employees, officers, directors and affiliates harmless from all
liabilities, claims and expenses, including without limitation Network
Solutions, Inc., and the directors, officers, employees and agents of
each of them, including attorney's fees, of third parties relating to
or arising under this Agreement, the Services provided hereunder or your
use of the Services, including without limitation infringement by you,
or someone else using the Service with your computer, of any intellectual
property or other proprietary right of any person or entity, or from
the violation of any of our operating rules or policy relating to the
service(s) provided. You also agree to release, indemnify and hold us
harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions contained in the Dispute
Policy. When we are threatened with suit by a third party, we may seek
written assurances from you concerning your promise to indemnify us;
your failure to provide those assurances may be considered by us to be
a breach of your Agreement and may result in deactivation of your domain
name.
14. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. The person named as administrative contact
at the time the controlling user name and password are secured shall
be the owner of the domain name. You agree that prior to transferring
ownership of your domain name to another person (the Transferee")
you shall require the Transferee to agree, in writing to be bound by
all the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Your domain name will
not be transferred until we receive such written assurances or other
reasonable assurance that the Transferee has been bound by the contractual
terms of this Agreement (such reasonable assurance as determined by us
in our sole discretion) along with the applicable transfer fee. If the
Transferee fails to be bound in a reasonable fashion (as determine by
us in our sole discretion) to the terms and conditions in this Agreement,
any such transfer will be null and void.
15. BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by any provision of this
Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the Dispute Policy provided
by us, may be considered by us to be a material breach and that we may
provide a written notice, describing the breach, to you. If within thirty
(30) calendar days of the date of such notice, you fail to provide evidence,
which is reasonably satisfactory to us, that you have not breached your
obligations under the Agreement, then we may delete the registration
or reservation of your domain name. Any such breach by you shall not
be deemed to be excused simply because we did not act earlier in response
to that, or any other breach by you.
16. NO GUARANTY. You agree that, by registration or reservation of your
chosen domain name, such registration or reservation does not confer
immunity from objection to either the registration, reservation, or use
of the domain name.
17. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. You agree that your use of our Services
is solely at your own risk. You agree that such Service(s) is provided
on an "as is," "as available" basis. We expressly
disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including
but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness
for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We make no warranty that
the Services will meet your requirements, or that the Service(s) will
be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free; nor do we make any warranty
as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Service(s)
or as to the accuracy or reliability of any information obtained through
the Service or that defects in the Service will be corrected. You understand
and agree that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained
through the use of Service is done at your own discretion and risk and
that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system
or loss of data that results from the download of such material and/or
data. We make no warranty regarding any goods or services purchased or
obtained through the Service or any transactions entered into through
the Service. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained
by you from us or through the Service shall create any warranty not expressly
made herein.
18. INFORMATION. As part of the registration process, you are required
to provide us certain information and to update us promptly as such information
changes such that our records are current, complete and accurate. You
are obliged to provide us the following information:
i) Your name and postal address (or, if different, that of the domain
name holder); ii) The domain name being registered iii) The name, postal
address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if available) telephone numbers
of the administrative contact for the domain name. iv) The name, postal
address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if available) telephone numbers
of the billing contact for the domain name. Any other information which
we request from you at registration is voluntary. Any voluntary information
we request is collected such that we can continue to improve the products
and services offered to you through your RSP.
19. DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree and acknowledge
that we will make domain name registration information you provide available
to ICANN, to the registry administrators, and to other third parties
as ICANN and applicable laws may require or permit. You further agree
and acknowledge that we may make publicly available, or directly available
to third party vendors, some, or all, of the domain name registration
information you provide, for purposes of inspection (such as through
our WHOIS service) or other purposes as required or permitted by ICANN
and the applicable laws.
You hereby consent to any and all such disclosures and use of, and guidelines,
limits and restrictions on disclosure or use of, information provided
by you in connection with the registration of a domain name (including
any updates to such information), whether during or after the term of
your registration of the domain name. You hereby irrevocably waive any
and all claims and causes of action you may have arising from such disclosure
or use of your domain name registration information by us.
You may access your domain name registration information in our possession
to review, modify or update such information, by accessing our domain
manager service, or similar service, made available by us through your
RSP.
We will not process data about any identified or identifiable natural
person that we obtain from you in a way incompatible with the purposes
and other limitations which we describe in this Agreement.
We will take reasonable precautions to protect the information we obtain
from you from our loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration
or destruction of that information.
20. REVOCATION. Your wilful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information,
your wilful failure promptly to update information provided to us, or
your failure to respond for over fifteen calendar days to inquiries by
us concerning the accuracy of contact details associated with the your
registration shall constitute a material breach of this Agreement and
be a basis for cancellation of the SLD registration.
21. RIGHT OF REFUSAL. We, in our sole discretion, reserve the right
to refuse to register or reserve your chosen domain name or register
you for other Services within thirty (30) calendar days from receipt
of your payment for such services. In the event we do not register or
reserve your domain name or register you for other Services, or we delete
your domain name or other Services within such thirty (30) calendar day
period, we agree to refund your applicable fee(s). You agree that we
shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that may result from our
refusal to register, reserve, or delete your domain name or register
you for other Services.
22. SEVERABILITY. You agree that the terms of this Agreement are severable.
If any term or provision is declared invalid or unenforceable, that term
or provision will be construed consistent with applicable law as nearly
as possible to reflect the original intentions of the parties, and the
remaining terms and provisions will remain in full force and effect.
23. NON-AGENCY. Nothing contained in this Agreement or the Dispute Policy
shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, or other form
of joint enterprise between the parties.
24. NON-WAIVER. Our failure to require performance by you of any provision
hereof shall not affect the full right to require such performance at
any time thereafter; nor shall the waiver by us of a breach of any provision
hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.
25. NOTICES. Any notice, direction or other communication given under
this Agreement shall be in writing and given by sending it via e-mail
or via regular mail. In the case of e-mail, valid notice shall only have
been deemed to have been given when an electronic confirmation of delivery
has been obtained by the sender. In the case of e-mail notification to
us or to the RSP to lhutz@Tucows.com or [Insert E-mail Address for RSP
] or, in the case of notice to you, at the e-mail address provided by
you in your WHOIS record. Any e-mail communication shall be deemed to
have been validly and effectively given on the date of such communication,
if such date is a business day and such delivery was made prior to 4:00
p.m. EST, otherwise it will be deemed to have been delivered on the next
business day. In the case of regular mail notice, valid notice shall
be deemed to have been validly and effectively given 5 business days
after the date of mailing and, in the case of notification to us or to
the RSP shall be sent to:
Tucows.com Inc. Registrant Affairs Office 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1 - OR - [Insert RSP address] and in the case of notification to
you shall be to the address specified in the "Administrative Contact" in
your WHOIS record.
26. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement, the rules and policies
published by us and the Dispute Policy are the complete and exclusive
agreement between you and us regarding our Services. This Agreement and
the Dispute Policy supersede all prior agreements and understandings,
whether established by custom, practice, policy or precedent.
27. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED
AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF PROVINCE OF ONTARIO AND THE
FEDERAL LAWS OF CANADA APPLICABLE THEREIN WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RULES
GOVERNING CHOICE OF LAWS. ANY ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST
BE BROUGHT IN ONTARIO AND YOU IRREVOCABLY CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION
OF SUCH COURTS.
28. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this
Agreement.
29. ACCEPTANCE OF AGREEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS
AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY
EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF THE SERVICE AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY
REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT., GUARANTEE OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH
IN THIS AGREEMENT.
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