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, "we", us" and "our" refer to
TUCOWS Inc. and Services refers to the domain name registration provided by us
as offered through (RSP). This
Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us for various
Services. If you are registering your name
during the finite period of time when owners of trademarks and service marks issued prior
to October 2, 2000 and having national effect will have the exclusive opportunity to
register identical domain names (Sunrise Period), you agree to comply with the
procedures, terms and obligations. You
acknowledge and agree that registrations for domain names during the Sunrise Period will
only be accepted for a minimum registration term of five (5) years.
2.
SELECTION
OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to
the best of the your knowledge and belief, neither this registration of a domain name nor
the manner in which it is directly or indirectly to be used infringes upon the legal
rights of a third party and, further, that the domain name is not being registered for nor
shall it at any time whatsoever be used for any unlawful purpose whatsoever.
3.
FEES. As consideration for the Services you have
selected, you agree to pay the RSP the applicable service 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.
4.
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.
5.
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 countrys 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. If you have registered
your name during the Sunrise Period, you agree to be bound by the Sunrise Dispute
Resolution Policy (Sunrise Dispute Policy) found at
(http://www.afilias.com/faq/sunrise-challenge.html).
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.
6.
MODIFICATIONS
TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In order to change any
of your account information with us, you must use your Account Identifier and Password
that you selected when you opened your account with us.
You agree to safeguard your Account Identifier and Password from any
unauthorized use. In no event shall we be
liable for the unauthorized use or misuse of your Account Identifier or Password.
7.
DOMAIN
NAME DISPUTE POLICY. If you reserved or
registered a domain name through us, or transferred a domain name to us from another
registrar, you agree to be bound by the Dispute Policies that are incorporated herein and
made a part of this Agreement by reference. The
current version of the general registration Dispute Policy may be found at
http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml. 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 Sunrise Dispute Policy or the Dispute
Policy, as applicable. 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 Sunrise Dispute Policy or
Dispute Policy, as applicable.
9.
POLICY. You agree that your registration of the domain
name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to a Tucows,
Registry Operator, ICANN or government-adopted policy, or pursuant to any registrar or
registry procedure not inconsistent with a Tucows, Registry Operator, ICANN or
government-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes by us or the Registry in registering
the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes concerning the domain name.
10.
AGENCY. Should you intend to license use of a domain name
to a third party you shall nonetheless be the domain name holder of record and are
therefore responsible for providing your own full contact information and for providing
and updating accurate technical and administrative contact information adequate to
facilitate timely resolution of any problems that arise in connection with the domain
name. You shall accept liability for harm
caused by wrongful use of the domain name. You
represent that you have provided notice of the terms and conditions in this Agreement to a
third party licensee and that the third party agrees to the terms hereof.
11.
ANNOUNCEMENTS. We reserve the right to distribute information to
you that is pertinent to the quality or operation of our services and those of our service
partners. These announcements will be
predominately informative in nature and may include notices describing changes, upgrades,
new products or other information to add security or to enhance your identity on the
Internet.
12.
LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY. You agree that our entire
liability, and your exclusive remedy, with respect to any Services(s) provided under this
Agreement and any breach of this Agreement is solely limited to the amount you paid for
such Service(s). 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.
13.
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.
14.
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.
15.
BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by any provision
of this Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the Dispute Policy provided by us, may
be considered by us to be a material breach and that we may provide a written notice,
describing the breach, to you. If within
thirty (30) calendar days of the date of such notice, you fail to provide evidence, which
is reasonably satisfactory to us, that you have not breached your obligations under the
Agreement, then we may delete the registration or reservation of your domain name. Any such breach by you shall not be deemed to be
excused simply because we did not act earlier in response to that, or any other breach by
you.
16.
NO
GUARANTY. You acknowledge that
registration or reservation of your chosen domain name does not confer immunity from
objection to 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 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.
19.
DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree and acknowledge that we will make domain
name registration information you provide available to ICANN, to the registry
administrators, and to other third parties as applicable. You further agree and
acknowledge that we may make publicly available, or directly available to third party
vendors, some, or all, of the domain name registration information you provide, for
purposes of inspection (such as through our WHOIS service) or other purposes as required
or permitted by ICANN and applicable laws.
You hereby consent to any and all such disclosures and use of 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.
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 (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.
21.
RIGHT
OF REFUSAL. We, in our sole discretion,
reserve the right to refuse to register or reserve your chosen domain name or register you
for other Services. In the event we do not
register or reserve your domain name or register you for other Services, or we delete your
domain name or other Services within such thirty (30) calendar day period, we agree to
refund your applicable fee(s). You agree that
we shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that may result from our refusal to
register, reserve, or delete your domain name or register you for other Services.
We reserve the right to delete or transfer your domain name within a thirty
(30) day period following registration if we believe the registration has been made
possible by a mistake, made either by us or by a third party. We also reserve the right to suspend a domain name
during resolution of any dispute.
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
Policies 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 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 Administrative Contact in your WHOIS record.
26.
ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement, the rules and
policies published by us and the Dispute Policy are the complete and exclusive agreement
between you and us regarding our Services. This
Agreement and the Dispute Policy supersede all prior agreements and understandings,
whether established by custom, practice, policy or precedent.
27.
GOVERNING
LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted and
enforced in accordance with the LAWS OF Province of ontario and the FEDERAL LAWS OF canada
applicable therein without reference to rules governing choice of laws. Any action relating to this Agreement must be
brought in ontario and you irrevocably consent
to the jurisdiction of such courts.
28.
INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to enter into
this Agreement.
29.
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 |