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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 ACSI, 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 repective 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.icann.org/udrp/udrp-schedule.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 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 accessor disclosure, alteration or destruction of that information.
20. REVOCATION. Your willful
provision of inaccurate or unreliable information, your willful 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 -
ACSI
Dept. Registrant Domain
1510 Roswell Road
Marietta, GA 30062
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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