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Domain Policy
Domain Name Registration Policies
BulkRegister
Domain Name Registration Policy
ICANN
Bulkregister Domain Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
ICANN
Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
OpenSRS Registration Policy:
Exhibit A of The Open SRS Registration Service Provider Agreement:
gTLD Registration Agreement (Exhibit A)
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 Webhosting.net, Inc, 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.icann.org/udrp/udrp.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
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
Control Panel 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 Control Panel 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 Control Panel 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 lhutz@Tucows.com
or admin@ccnetservices.com 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 - Webhosting.net Domain Services, 20533 Biscayne
Blvd., Suite #269, Aventura, FL, 33180 and in the case of notification
to you shall be to the address specified in the "Control Panel
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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