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., "Registry Operator" refers to Neulevel Inc. and "Services" refers to the domain name registration provided by us as offered through OutServ.net, Inc. ("RSP"). This Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us for various Services.
2. .BIZ
RESTRICTIONS. Registrations in the .biz top level domain must be used or
intended to be used primarily for bona fide business or commercial purposes. For
the purposes of the .biz registration restrictions, "bona fide business or
commercial use" shall mean the bona fide use or bona fide intent to use the
domain name or any content, software, materials, graphics or other information
thereon, to permit Internet users to access one or more host computers through
the DNS:
(i) to exchange goods, services, or property of any kind;
(ii) in the ordinary course of business; or (iii) to facilitate (i) the
exchange of goods, services, information or property of any kind; or (ii) the
ordinary course of trade or business.
3. 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, and that you will continue to keep all of the
information provided 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 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://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs/legal
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.
7. 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.
8.
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://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs/legal.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this policy.
9.
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:
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.
The 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.
10. 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.
11. 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. You
acknowledge and agree that the domain name has not been registered solely for
the purposes of selling, trading or leasing for compensation and will be used
for a business or commercial purpose.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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 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.
This indemnification obligation will survive the termination or expiration of
this agreement.
15. 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 to be 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. You acknowledge that you will not be entitled to
change registrars during the first sixty (60) days following the registration of
your domain name.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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 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 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.
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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24.
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.
25. 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.
26. 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:
and in the case of notification
to you shall be to the address specified in the "Administrative Contact" in your
WHOIS record
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to
enter into this Agreement.
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.