@SCHEDULE A
Form of Registration Agreement
1. AGREEMENT. In
this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you"
and "your" refer to the registrant of each domain
name registration and/or recipient of email
forwarding services,"we","us" and "our" refer to
TUCOWS Inc., "Registry Operator" refers to The
Global Name Registry Ltd. and "Services" refers to
the domain name registration and email forwarding
provided by us as offered
through____________________("RSP"). This Agreement
explains our obligations to you, and explains your
obligations to us for various Services.
2. .name RESTRICTIONS. Registrations in the .name
top-level domain must constitute an individual's
"Personal Name". For purposes of the .name
restrictions (the "Restrictions"), a "Personal
Name" is a person's legal name, or a name by which
the person is commonly known. A "name by which a
person is commonly known" includes, without
limitation, a pseudonym used by an author or
painter, or a stage name used by a singer or
actor.
3. .name REPRESENTATIONS. As a .name domain name
Registrant, you hereby represent that:
(i) the registered domain name or second level
domain ("SLD") email address is your Personal
Name.
(ii) 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,
current and complete,
(iii) 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;
(iv) that the domain name is not being registered
for nor shall it at any time whatsoever be used
for any unlawful purpose whatsoever;
(v) the registration satisfies the Eligibility
Requirements found at
http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appf-03jul01.htm;
and
(vi) you have the authority to enter into this
Registration Agreement.
4. EMAIL FORWARDING SERVICES.
(i) The Services for which you have registered
may, at your option, include email forwarding. To
the extent you opt to use email forwarding, you
are obliged to do so in accordance with all
applicable legislation and are responsible for all
use of email forwarding, including the content of
messages sent through email forwarding.
(ii) You undertake to familiarize yourself with
the content of and to comply with the generally
accepted rules for Internet and email usage. This
includes, but is not limited to the Acceptable Use
Policy, available at
http://www.theglobalname.org/ as well as the
following restrictions. Without prejudice to the
foregoing, you undertake not to use email
forwarding:
(a) to encourage, allow or participate in any form
of illegal or unsuitable activity, including but
not restricted to the exchange of threatening,
obscene or offensive messages, spreading computer
viruses, breach of copyright and/or proprietary
rights or publishing defamatory material;
(b) to gain illegal access to systems or networks
by unauthorized access to or use of the data in
systems or networks, including all attempts at
guessing passwords, checking or testing the
vulnerability of a system or network or breaching
the security or access control without the
sufficient approval of the owner of the system or
network;
(c) to interrupt data traffic to other users,
servers or networks, including, but not restricted
to, mail bombing, flooding, Denial of Service (DoS)
attacks, wilful attempts to overload another
system or other forms of harassment; or
(d) for spamming, which includes, but is not
restricted to, the mass mailing of unsolicited
email, junk mail, the use of distribution lists
(mailing lists) which include persons who have not
specifically given their consent to be placed on
such distribution list. Users are not permitted to
provide false names or in any other way to pose as
somebody else when using email forwarding.
(iii) Registry Operator reserves the right to
implement additional anti-spam measures, to block
spam or mail from systems with a history of abuse
from entering Registry Operator's email
forwarding. However, due to the nature of such
systems, which actively block messages, Registry
Operator shall make public any decision to
implement such systems a reasonable time in
advance, so as to allow you or us to give feedback
on the decision.
(iv) You understand and agree that Registry
Operator may delete material that does not conform
to clause (c) above or that in some other way
constitutes a misuse of email forwarding. You
further understand and agree that Registry
Operator is at liberty to block your access to
email forwarding if you use email forwarding in a
way that contravenes this Agreement. You will be
given prior warning of discontinuation of the
email forwarding unless it would damage the
reputation of Registry Operator or jeopardize the
security of Registry Operator or others to do so.
Registry Operator reserves the right to
immediately discontinue email forwarding without
notice if the technical stability of email
forwarding is threatened in any way, or if you are
in breach of this Agreement. On discontinuing
email forwarding, Registry Operator is not obliged
to store any contents or to forward unsent email
to you or a third party.
(v) You understand and agree that to the extent
either we and/or Registry Operator is required by
law to disclose certain information or material in
connection with your email forwarding, either we
and/or Registry Operator will do so in accordance
with such requirement and without notice to you.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree that we
may in our sole discretion: (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 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.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. We
will not refund any fees paid by you if you
terminate your agreement with us.
8. 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. You will not be able to
transfer your domain name during the first sixty
(60) days following registration of the domain
name with us. Beginning on the sixty-first (61st)
day following the registration, the policies set
forth at:
http://www.opensrs.org/dotname_info.shtml
shall apply.
9. 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. In addition, you hereby acknowledge
that you have 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 Eligibility Requirements (the "Eligibility
Requirements"), available at
http://www.icann.org.tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appl-03jul01.htm;
(ii) the Eligibility Requirements Dispute
Resolution Policy (the "ERDRP"), available at
http://www.icann.org.tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appm-03jul01.htm;
and
(iii) the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Policy (the "UDRP"), available at
http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appm-03jul01.htm.
The Eligibility Requirements dictate that Personal
Name domain names and Personal Name SLD email
addresses will be granted on a first-come,
first-served basis, except for registrations
granted as a result of a dispute resolution
proceeding or during the landrush procedures in
connection with the opening of the Registry TLD.
The following categories of Personal Name
Registrations may be registered: (i) the Personal
Name of an individual; (ii) the Personal Name of a
fictional character, if you have trademark or
service make rights in that character's Personal
Name; (iii) in addition to a Personal Name
registration, you may add numeric characters to
the beginning or the end of the Personal Name so
as to differentiate it from other Personal Names.
The ERDRP applies to challenges to (i) registered
domain names and SLD email address registrations
within .name on the grounds that a Registrant does
not meet the Eligibility Requirements, and (ii) to
Defensive Registrations (as defined by the
Registry Operator) within .name.
The UDRP sets forth the terms and conditions in
connection with a dispute between a Registrant and
party other than Global Name Registry ("Registry
Operator") or Registrar over the registration and
use of an Internet domain name registered by a
Registrant.
10. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY MODIFICATIONS. You
agree that we, in our sole discretion, may modify
our dispute policy. We will post any such revised
policy on our Web site at least thirty (30)
calendar days before it becomes effective. You
agree that, by maintaining the reservation or
registration of your domain name or SLD email
address 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 modification, you may terminate
this Agreement. We will not refund any fees paid
by you if you terminate your Agreement with us.
11. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You agree that, if your
use of our domain name registration services is
challenged by a third party, you will be subject
to the provisions specified in our 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
set forth below in this agreement. If we are
notified that a complaint has been filed with a
judicial or administrative body regarding your use
of our domain name registration services, you
agree not to make any changes to your domain name
record without our prior approval. We may not
allow you to make changes to such domain name
record until (i) we are directed to do so by the
judicial or administrative body, or (ii) we
receive notification by you and the other party
contesting your registration and use of our domain
name registration services that the dispute has
been settled. Furthermore, you agree that if you
are subject to litigation regarding your
registration and use of our domain name
registration services, we may deposit control of
your domain name record into the Registry of the
judicial body by supplying a party with a
Registrar certificate from us.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
You agree that neither we nor the Registry
Operator will have any liability of any kind for
any loss or liability resulting from (i) the
processing of registration requests prior to live
SRS launch, including, without limitation, your
ability or inability to obtain a .name domain name
or SLD email address registration using these
processes; or (ii) any dispute over any .name
domain name, SLD email address, Defensive
Registration or NameWatch Registration (as defined
by the Registry Operator), including the decision
of any dispute resolution proceeding related to
any of the foregoing.
16. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify,
and hold us, the Registry Operator, 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 out of or
relating to the domain name registered 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 both us
and the Registry Operator harmless pursuant to the
terms and conditions contained in the Dispute
Policies. 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.
17. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. The person named as
Registrant at the time the 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. You acknowledge that you will not be
entitled to change registrars during the first
sixty (60) days following the registration of your
domain name.
18. 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 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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 full name, postal address, e-mail address
and voice telephone number and fax number (if
available) (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 telephone number and fax number (if
available) telephone numbers of the administrative
contact, the technical contact and the billing
contact for the domain name;
(iv) The IP addresses and names of the primary
nameserver and any secondary nameserver(s) for the
domain name.
You acknowledge and agree that the foregoing
registration data will be publicly available and
accessible on the Whois directory as required by
ICANN and may be sold in bulk in accordance with
ICANN policy. You further understand and agree
that the foregoing registration data may be
transferred internationally.
22. 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.
23. 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 your 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.
24. 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, to
protect the integrity and stability of the
Registry, to comply with any applicable laws,
government rules or requirements, requests of law
enforcement, in compliance with the dispute
resolution process, or to avoid any liability,
civil or criminal, on our part and/or that of the
Registry Operator, as well as our affiliates,
subsidiaries, officers, directors and employees.
We and the Registry Operator reserve the right to
suspend a domain name during the resolution of a
dispute.
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 a 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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
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
30. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement, the
rules and policies published by Tucows, ICANN
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.
31. 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.
32. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age
to enter into this Agreement.
33. 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. |