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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 International
Business Registrar, Inc., 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://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml.
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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