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AGREEMENT. In
this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you"
and "your" refer to the registrant of each
domain name registration, "we", gus" and "our"
refer to TUCOWS Inc. and gServicesh refers to
the domain name registration provided by us as
offered through (gRSPh). This Agreement
explains our obligations to you, and explains
your obligations to us for various Services.
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SELECTION OF A
DOMAIN NAME. You represent that:
(i) the data
provided in the domain name registration
application is true, correct, up to date and
complete,
(ii) 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;
(iii) that the
domain name is not being registered for nor
shall it at any time whatsoever be used for any
unlawful purpose whatsoever
(iv) the
registered domain name will be used primarily
for bona fide business or commercial purposes
and not (a) exclusively for personal use, or (b)
solely for the purposes of (1) selling, trading
or leasing the domain name for compensation, or
(2) the unsolicited offering to sell, trade or
lease the domain name for compensation;
(v) you have the
authority to enter into this Registration
Agreement; and
(vi) the
registered domain name is reasonably related to
your business or intended commercial purpose at
the time of registration.
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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.
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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.
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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 will which shall be effective
immediately upon posting on our web site or upon
notification to you by e-mail or your countryfs
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 (gDispute Policyh) as presently written
and posted on
http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml and
as 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.
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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.
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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.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself
with this policy.
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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:
(i) The Uniform
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (gDispute
Policy), available at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm;
(ii) The Start-Up
Dispute Resolution Policy (gSUDRPh), available
at http://www.neulevel.com/countdown/stop.html;
and
(iii) The
Restrictions Dispute Resolution Criteria and
Rules (gRDRPh), available at http://www.neulevel.com/;
(collectively,
gDispute Policiesh).
The SUDRP sets
forth the terms and conditions in connection
with a dispute between a registrant of a .biz
domain name (gRegistranth) with any third party
(other than Neulevel, Inc. (gRegistry Operatorh)
or Tucows over the registration or use of a .biz
domain name registered by you that is subject to
the Start-up Intellectual Property Notification
Service (gSIPNSh). SIPNS is a service
introduced by Registry Operator to notify a
trademark or service mark holder (gClaimanth)
that a second-level domain name has been
registered in which that Claimant claims
intellectual property rights. In accordance
with the SUDRP and its associated Rules, those
Claimants will have the right to challenge
registrations through independent ICANN-accredited
dispute resolution providers.
The Dispute
Policy sets forth the terms and conditions in
connection with a dispute between a Registrant
and any party other than the Registry Operator
or Registrar over the registration and use of an
Internet domain name registered by Registrant.
he RDRP sets
forth the terms under which any allegation that
a domain name is not used primarily for business
or commercial purposes shall be endorsed on a
case-by-case, fact specific basis by an
independent ICANN-accredited dispute provider.
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POLICY. You
agree that your registration of the domain name
shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or
transfer pursuant to any Tucows, Registry
Operator, ICANN or government-adopted policy, or
pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure
not inconsistent with an ICANN 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.
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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.
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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.
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INDEMNITY. You
agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 for the
purpose of improving the products and services
offered to you through your RSP.
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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 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.
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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 (15)
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 domain name registration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 have been 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
Attention: Legal Affairs
and in the case of notification to you shall be
to the address specified in the gAdministrative
Contacth in your WHOIS record.
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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.
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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.
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INFANCY. You
attest that you are of legal age to enter into
this Agreement.
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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.