.COM / .NET - REGISTRATION AGREEMENT
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer to the registrant of each domain name registration, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Tucows Inc. and "Services" refers to the domain name registration provided by us as offered through Indotek
Web Hosting Company, the Registration Service Provider ("Reseller"). This Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations
to us for the Services.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to the best of the your knowledge
and belief, neither this registration of a domain name nor the manner
in which it is directly or indirectly to be used infringes upon the legal
rights of a third party and, further, that the domain name is not being
registered for nor shall it at any time whatsoever be used for any unlawful
purpose whatsoever.
3. FEES. As consideration for the Services, you agree to pay
Reseller 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"). By submitting this Agreement, you represent that the Account Information and
all other statements put forth in your application are true, complete
and accurate. Both Tucows and the Registry reserve the right to terminate
your domain name registration if: (i) information provided by you or
your agent is false, inaccurate, incomplete, unreliable, misleading or
otherwise secretive; or (ii) you have failed to maintain, update and
keep your Account Information true, current, complete, accurate and reliable.
You acknowledge that a breach of this Section 3 will constitute a material
breach of our Agreement which will entitle either us or the Registry
to terminate this agreement immediately upon such breach without any
refund and without notice to you.
4. TERM. 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,
the term of this Registration Agreement will be extended accordingly.
Should the domain name be transferred to another Registrar, the terms
and conditions of this contract shall cease.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree that either we or
the Registry may: (1) revise the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
and (2) change the services provided under this Agreement. You agree
to be bound by any such revision or change which shall be effective immediately
upon posting on our web site or upon notification to you by e-mail or
your country's postal service pursuant to the Notices section of this
Agreement. You agree to review this Agreement as posted on our web site
periodically to maintain an awareness of any and all 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 postal
service pursuant to the Notices section of this Agreement. Notice of
your termination shall be effective after processing by us. You agree
that, by continuing the use of Services following notice of any revision
to this Agreement or change in service(s), you shall be bound by any
such revisions and changes. You further agree to be bound by the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy ("Dispute Policy") as presently written and posted on http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm
and as such shall be amended from time to time. 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.
You agree to safeguard your Account Identifier and Password from any
unauthorized use. In no event shall 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 that is incorporated
herein and made a part of this Agreement by reference. The current version
of the Dispute Policy may be found at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm.
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. 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. POLICY. You agree that your registration of the domain
name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant
to a Tucows, Registry, ICANN or government-adopted policy, or pursuant
to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with a Tucows,
Registry, ICANN or government-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes
by us or the Registry in registering the name or (2) for the resolution
of disputes concerning the domain name.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend to license use of a domain name
to a third party you shall nonetheless be the domain name 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 domain name. You shall accept liability
for harm caused by wrongful use of the domain name. You represent that
you have provided notice of the terms and conditions in this Agreement
to any third party licensee and that the third party agrees to the terms
hereof.
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We 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.
13. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us,
our contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors and affiliates
and VeriSign, Inc., and its directors, officers, employees, agents and
affiliates harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses, 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. This indemnification obligation will survive the termination or
expiration of this Agreement.
14. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. The person named as registrant
on the WHOIS shall be the registered name holder. The person named as
administrative contact at the time the controlling user name and password
are secured shall be deemed the designate of the registrant with the
authority to manage 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 acknowledge that registration or reservation
of your chosen domain name does not confer immunity from objection to
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; and
(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 Reseller.
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 applicable. 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 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 Reseller.
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 accessor 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 any failure to respond to inquiries by us addressed to the
email address of the registrant, the administrative, billing or technical
contact appearing in the "WHOIS" directory with respect to a domain name concerning the accuracy of contact details
associated with the registration shall constitute a material breach of
this Agreement and be a basis for cancellation of the domain name registration.
Any information collected by us concerning an identified or identifiable
natural person ("Personal Data") will be used in connection with the registration of your domain name(s) and
for the purposes of this Agreement and as required or permitted by the
ICANN Agreement or an ICANN/Registry Operator policy.
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. 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.
We reserve the right to delete or transfer your domain name
within a thirty (30) day period following registration if we believe
the registration has been made possible by a mistake, made either by
us or by a third party.
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 be given when an electronic confirmation of
delivery has been obtained by the sender. In the case of e-mail notification
to us or to Reseller to lhutz@tucows.com or [Insert E-mail Address for
Reseller] 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
Reseller shall be sent to:
TUCOWS Inc.
Registrant Affairs Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6K 3M1
Attention: Legal Affairs
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. FORCE MAJEURE. You acknowledge and agree that neither
we nor the Registry shall be responsible for any failures or delays in
performing our respective obligations hereunder arising from any cause
beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to, acts of
God, acts of civil or military authority, fires, wars, riots, earthquakes,
storms, typhoons and floods.
30. FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Controlling Language. In the event that
you are reading this agreement in a language other than the English language,
you acknowledge and agree that the English language version hereof shall
prevail in case of inconsistency or contradiction in interpretation or
translation.
31. 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. |