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
ArsHost, 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 [email protected] or [email protected] 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 -
ArsHost
500-6 Peachers Mill Rd
Clarksville, TN 37042
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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