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1.
AGREEMENT. In this Registration
Agreement ("Agreement") "Registrant",
"you" and "your" refer to the
registrant of each domain name
registration, "we", "us" and "our"
refer to TUCOWS Inc., "Registry
Operator" refers to NeuStar Inc.,
"DOC" refers to the United States of
America Department of Commerce, and
"Services" refers to the domain name
registration provided by us as offered
through Dala Web ("RSP"). This
Agreement explains our obligations to
you, and explains your obligations to
us for various Services.
2. .us NEXUS REQUIREMENT. Only
those individuals or organizations
that have a substantive lawful
connection in the United States are
permitted to register for .usTLD
domain names. Registrants in the .usTLD
must satisfy the nexus requirement
("Nexus" or "Nexus Requirements") set
out at
http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf
3. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME.
You certify and represent that:
- You have and shall continue to
have, a bona fide presence in the
United States on the basis of real
and substantial lawful contacts
with, or lawful activities in, the
United States as defined in Section
2 hereinabove.
- The listed name servers are
located within the United States;
- The data provided in the domain
name registration application is
true, correct, up to date and
complete, and that you will continue
to keep all of the information
provided correct, up-to-date and
complete;
- 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;
- That the domain name is not
being registered for nor shall it at
any time whatsoever be used for any
unlawful purpose whatsoever;
- You have the authority to enter
into this Registration Agreement.
4. FEES. As consideration for
the Services you have selected, you
agree to pay the RSP 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 statements in your
Application are true, complete and
accurate.
5. TERM. This Agreement shall
remain in full force during the length
of the term of your domain name
registration(s) 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 shall be extended
accordingly. Should the domain name be
transferred to another Registrar, the
terms and conditions of this contract
shall cease.
6. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT.
You agree that we 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
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.
We will not refund any fees paid by
you if you terminate your agreement
with us.
7. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT.
You shall maintain your own
records appropriate to document and
prove the initial registration date of
the domain name. 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.
8. 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 and the usDRP, as
defined below, that is incorporated
herein and made a part of this
Agreement by reference. Please take
the time to familiarize yourself with
these policies.
9. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You
acknowledge having read and understood
and agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions of the following documents,
as they may be amended from time to
time, which are hereby incorporated
and made an integral part of this
Agreement:
- The Nexus Dispute
Policy ("Dispute Policy), available
at
http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf.
The Dispute Policy will provide
interested parties with an
opportunity to challenge a
registration not complying with the
Nexus Requirements.
- The usTLD Dispute
Resolution Policy ("usDRP"). The
usDRP is intended to provide
interested parties with an
opportunity to challenge a
registration based on alleged
trademark infringement. In addition
to the foregoing, you agree that,
for the adjudication of disputes
concerning or arising from use of
the Registered Name, you shall
submit, without prejudice to other
potentially applicable
jurisdictions, to the jurisdiction
of the courts (i) of your domicile,
- where Tucows is
located, and
- the United States.
10. POLICY. You agree that
your registration of the domain name
shall be subject to suspension,
cancellation, or transfer pursuant to
any Tucows, Registry Operator, the DOC
or government-adopted policy, or
pursuant to any registrar or registry
procedure not inconsistent with a DOC
or government-adopted policy, (1) to
correct mistakes by us or the
applicable Registry in registering the
name or (2) for the resolution of
disputes concerning the domain name.
The Registry Operator's policies can
be found at
http://www.neustar.us/policies.
11. 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 a
third party licensee and that the
third party agrees to the terms
hereof. You acknowledge and agree that
the domain name has not been
registered solely for the purposes of
selling, trading or leasing for
compensation and will be used for a
business or commercial purpose.
12. 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.
13. 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).
Neither we nor our contractors or
third party beneficiaries shall 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
jurisdictions do not allow the
exclusion or limitation of liability
for consequential or incidental
damages, in such jurisdictions, 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 miss-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.
14. INDEMNITY. You agree to
release, indemnify, and hold us, the
Registry Operator, the DOC, our
respective contractors, agents,
employees, officers, directors,
affiliates and third party
beneficiaries 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 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
shall 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.
15. 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 to be 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 may 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. You
acknowledge that you will not be
entitled to change registrars during
the first sixty (60) days following
the registration of your domain name.
16. BREACH. You agree that
failure to abide by any provision of
this Agreement including but not
limited to any failure to abide by the
Nexus Requirements, 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 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.
17. NO GUARANTY. You
acknowledge that registration or
reservation of your chosen domain name
does not confer immunity from
objection to either the registration,
reservation, or use of the domain
name.
18. 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. If
you license use of the domain name,
you nonetheless agree that you shall
accept any and all liability for any
harm caused by said licensed use and
suffered by Tucows, the Registry
Operator and/or the DOC. 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.
19. 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:
- Your full name, postal
address, e-mail address and
telephone number and fax number (if
available) (or, if different, that
of the domain name holder);
- The domain name being
registered;
- The name, postal
address, e-mail address, and
telephone number and fax number (if
available) telephone numbers of the
administrative contact, the
technical contact and the billing
contact for the domain name;
- The IP addresses and
names of the primary nameserver and
any secondary nameserver(s) for the
domain name;
- In addition to the
foregoing, you will be required to
provide additional Nexus
Information. The Nexus Information
requirements are set out at
http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf.
Any other information, which we
request from you at registration, is
voluntary. Any voluntary information
we request is collected for the
purpose of improving the products
and services offered to you through
your RSP.
20. DISCLOSURE AND USE OF
REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You
agree and acknowledge that we will
make domain name registration
information you provide available to
the DOC, to the Registry Operator, 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 the DOC and applicable
laws. You hereby consent to any and
all such disclosures and 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.
21. 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 DOC or
Registry Operator policy.
22. RIGHT OF REFUSAL. We,
and/or Registry Operator, 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 following
registration if we believe the
registration has been made possible by
a mistake, made either by us or by a
third party. We also reserve the right
to suspend a domain name during
resolution of a dispute.
23. 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. 24. NON-AGENCY.
Nothing contained in this Agreement or
the Dispute Policies shall be
construed as creating any agency,
partnership, or other form of joint
enterprise between the parties.
25. 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.
26. 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 postal service. 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, notifications must
be sent to us at
lhutz@tucows.com, or in the case
of notification to you, to 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 RSP shall be
sent to:
Our address:
TUCOWS Inc.
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
CANADA
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
27. ENTIRETY. You agree that
this Agreement, the rules and policies
published by Tucows, the DOC and/or
the Registry Operator 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.
28. 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.
29. INFANCY. You attest that
you are of legal age to enter into
this Agreement.
30. 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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