
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 Port Networks, 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.
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