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Schedule B - Form of Registration Agreement
- 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
IntroWeb (“RSP”). 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 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.
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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 (“Dispute Policy), available at http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm;
(ii) The Start-Up Dispute Resolution
Policy (“SUDRP”), available at http://www.neulevel.com/countdown/stop.html;
and
(iii) The Restrictions Dispute Resolution
Criteria and Rules (“RDRP”), available at http://www.neulevel.com/;
(collectively, “Dispute Policies”).
The SUDRP sets forth the terms and conditions
in connection with a dispute between a registrant of a .biz domain
name (“Registrant”) with any third party (other than Neulevel, Inc.
(“Registry Operator”) 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 (“SIPNS”). SIPNS is a
service introduced by Registry Operator to notify a trademark or service
mark holder (“Claimant”) 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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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.
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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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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.
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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 “Administrative Contact” 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.
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