| 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 Vortech Inc. (RSP).
This Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your
obligations to us for the Services.
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 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 Account Information and all other statements
put forth in your application are true, complete and accurate. Both
Tucows and the Registry reserve the right to terminate your domain
name registration if: (i) information provided by you or your agent
is false, inaccurate, incomplete, unreliable, misleading or otherwise
secretive; or (ii) you have failed to maintain, update and keep
your Account Information true, current, complete, accurate and reliable.
You acknowledge that a violation of this Section 3 will constitute
a material breach of this agreement which will entitle either us
or the Registry to terminate this agreement immediately without
any refund and without notice to you.
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 either we or the Registry
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. You further agree to be
bound by the Registry dispute policy (Dispute Policy)
as presently written and posted on http://www.nic.cc/policies/dispute.html
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 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.nic.cc/policies/dispute.html.
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. 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. You acknowledge that
neither we nor the Registry screen or otherwise review your domain
name application to verify that you have the legal right to use
a particular word or term. You are strongly encouraged to perform
a trademark search with respect to the words and/or phrases comprising
your domain name prior to applying for registration of the domain.
You agree that you will be solely liable in the event that your
use of a domain constitutes an infringement or other violation of
a third partys rights.
9.
POLICY. You agree that your registration of the domain name shall
be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to
a Tucows, Registry, regulatory or government-adopted policy, or
pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent
with a Tucows, Registry, regulatory 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. You acknowledge and understand that by accepting the terms
and conditions of this agreement you shall be bound by Registry
policies and any pertinent rules or policies that exist now or in
the future and which are posted on the Registry website at http://www.nic.cc.
You are responsible for monitoring the Registrys site on a
regular basis. In the event that you do not wish to be bound by
a revision or modification to any Registry policy, your sole remedy
is to cancel your domain name registration by following the appropriate
Registry policy regarding such cancellation.
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 any 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, including but not
limited to Verisign, Inc. and eNic Corporation, 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 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.
13.
INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our contractors,
agents, employees, officers, directors, affiliates and third party
beneficiaries, including but not limited to Verisign, Inc. and eNic
Corporation, 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.
SCOPE OF REGISTRATION. You will be entitled to exclusive use of
the domain name during the term of the registration. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, you shall not use, display, exploit or register a
domain name which action may constitute illegal activity or be in
contravention or violation of a Tucows or Registry policy. You acknowledge
that a breach of this clause will constitute a material breach of
this agreement which will entitle either Tucows or the Registry
to terminate this agreement immediately upon such breach without
any refund. In addition, both we and/or the Registry may, in our
sole discretion, refuse registration of your desired domain name
within thirty (30) calendar days from receipt of payment. Neither
Tucows nor the Registry shall be liable for any loss, damage or
other injury whatsoever resulting from any refusal to register your
desired domain name.
15.
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.
16.
BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by any provision of this
Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the Dispute Policy, 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 fifteen
(15) 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.
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 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.
20.
DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree and acknowledge
that either we and/or the Registry may make directly available to
third parties or publicly available, some or all, of the Account
Information for inspection through our WHOIS service and for any
other purposes as may be required or permitted by applicable laws
or policies. You hereby irrevocably waive and release Tucows and/or
the Registry from any and all claims and causes of action you may
have arising from any disclosure, use, or unauthorized access of
your Account Information.
.
21.
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.
22.
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.
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 Policy
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 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. E.S.T., 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
five (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.
27.
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.
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.
FORCE MAJEURE. You acknowledge and agree that neither we nor the
Registry shall be responsible for any failure or delay in performing
our respective obligations hereunder arising from any cause beyond
our reasonable control, including but not limited to, acts of God,
acts of civil or military authority, fires, wars, riots, earthquakes,
storms, typhoons and floods.
31.
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.
32.
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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