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Agreement
1. 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 FastWebServer.com.
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 FastWebServer.com 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
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. 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:
1.
(i)
Your name and postal address (or, if different, that
of the domain name holder);
2.
(ii)
The domain name being registered;
3.
(iii)
The name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice
and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the administrative
contact for the domain name;
4.
(iv)
The name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice
and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the billing contact
for the domain name.
5.
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.
1.
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.
2.
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 FastWebServer.com
3.
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.
4.
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 (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 FastWebServer.com 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.
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