SCHEDULE
A: IP Claim Service
Terms
Of Use
THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TUCOWS, INC. (“REGISTRAR”)
AND YOU, THE OWNER OF A REGISTERED OR COMMON LAW TRADEMARK OR SERVICE MARK
(“OWNER”) OR THE DULY AUTHORIZED AGENT OF AN OWNER (“AGENT”) (COLLECTIVELY,
“YOU”). THESE TERMS OF USE ARE THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE
TERMS OF USE REGARDING USE OF THE REGISTRAR’S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CLAIM
SERVICE (THE “SERVICE”).
BY SELECTING “I AGREE,” BY USING THE SERVICE OR BY SIGNIFYING ACCEPTANCE
IN ANY OTHER WAY, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE.IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO USE THE
SERVICE AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE ANY FURTHER USE.
The
Service.
Registrarprovides the Service to holders of both registered and common
law trademarks or service marks (collectively “Trademarks”).During the
domain name application process, applicants for a .biz domain name
(“Applicants”) will be notified of an Owner’s alleged intellectual property
rights in a Trademark if the domain name contained in the domain name
application is an exact match of the Trademark identified in an IP Claim (as
defined below) submitted by Owner.You may review frequently asked questions
regarding the Service by reviewing our FAQs.
Registration,
Password and Security.
You must provide accurate, complete and current registration information
and must update this information promptly if it changes.
You represent and warrant that You are at least eighteen (18) years of
age or older and are either an Owner or an Agent duly authorized to
represent an Owner(s) in connection with the Service and submitting an IP
Claim on behalf of an Owner(s).Agent will indemnify and hold harmless
Registrar and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates and
subcontractors for any claims brought by Owner or Third Parties relating to
the use of the Service.
License
to Use Data / Privacy.
By submitting an IP Claim, You hereby grant Registrar, as well as any of
its agents or subcontractors, a limited, royalty-free, non-exclusive
worldwide license to use all of the data contained in the IP Claim solely
for the purposes of implementing the Service, processing Your IP Claim,
notifying Applicants of Your IP Claim, and for notifying You of changes to
the Service, for archival purposes.
The
IP Claim Process.
In order to submit a claim with respect to a Trademark or Trademarks (“IP
Claim”) through the Service, You must complete an IP Claim form for each
Trademark.For each IP Claim, You must submit complete contact information,
representative contact information and notification details, and the details
regarding the Trademark.You may specify in the representative field that an
Agent may receive legal correspondence regarding the IP Claim.Once You have
submitted an IP Claim, you will receive a confirmation email and a claim
number.You must retain the claim number for each IP Claim You submit.
Registrar will accept IP Claims until July 9, 2001, or such later date as
it may determine in its sole discretion (“Close of Phase I”) and no IP
Claims will be accepted after that date.
From the Close of Phase I until September 25, 2001 (“Phase 2”), or such
other later date as Registrar may choose, in its sole discretion, the domain
name applications from ICANN-approved registrars (“Applications”) will be
compared with the database of IP Claims processed through the Service (“IP
Claim Database”).For each exact match between an IP Claim in the IP Claim
Database and a domain name application, the Registry Operator for .Biz
(“Registry Operator”) will notify the Applicant that a third party or third
parties have submitted an IP Claim for the exact Trademark.The email
notification to the Applicant will include, among other things, the
information provided by Owner in the IP Claim, instructions on how to
proceed with the registration process, and that if selected during the
randomized name selection phase (“Name Selection Phase”), the domain name
will be placed on a temporary thirty (30) day hold when the Registry goes “live.”The
Applicant will have the option to proceed with the Application or cancel the
Application.If the Applicant does not respond to the email notification, or
elects to cancel the Application, the Applicant’s domain name application
will not be processed during the Name Selection Phase.If the Applicant
chooses to proceed with the registration process and the name is selected
during the Name Selection Phase, that domain name automatically will be
placed on a thirty (30) day “hold period” when the name is registered.
After Name Selection, the Owner will be notified by Registry Operator if
an Applicant has successfully registered the domain name.The Owner will then
have the option of contacting the Applicant and finding a solution or using
the guidelines set forth by a special dispute resolution process called the
Start-up Trademark Opposition Policy (“STOP”)(formerly referred to as the
Start-up Dispute Resolution Policy or “SUDRP”) (“information available at
http://www.neulevel.com/countdown/stop.html, or the Uniform Domain-Name
Dispute Resolution Procedures (“UDRP”) (information is available at
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm).
You will not be notified if there are no Applications that exactly match
an IP Claim You submitted in the IP Claim Database.
USE OF THE SERVICE DOES NOT GUARANTEE THAT AN OWNER WILL BE AWARDED THE
.BIZ EXTENSION FOR ITS TRADEMARK.AN OWNER THAT WISHES TO OBTAIN A .BIZ
EXTENSION FOR ITS TRADEMARK MUST FILE A DOMAIN NAME APPLICATION.
DOMAIN NAME APPLICANTS WILL ONLY BE NOTIFIED OF APPLICATIONS THAT ARE
EXACT MATCHES WITH A TRADEMARK IDENTIFIED IN AN IP CLAIM FORM.REGISTRAR WILL
NOT VERIFY WHETHER A TRADEMARK CLAIMED ON AN IP CLAIM FORM CORRESPONDS WITH
AN ACTUAL, LEGAL OR VALID TRADEMARK, NOR WILL REGISTRAR PROVIDE ANY LEGAL
OVERSIGHT OR ADJUDICATION FOR ANY DISPUTED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IMPLICATED
BY THE SERVICE.
Conduct.
You may access and use the Service for lawful purposes only and you are
solely responsible for the knowledge and adherence to any and all laws,
statutes, rules and regulations pertaining to Your use of the Service.You
agree that You will not (i)use the Service to commit a criminal offence or
to encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offence or give rise
to a civil liability, or otherwise violate any local state, Federal or
international law or regulation; (ii)upload or otherwise transmit any
content that You do not have a right to transmit under any law or
contractual or fiduciary duty; (iii)interfere or infringe with any trademark
or proprietary rights of any other party; (iv)interfere with the ability of
other users to access or use the Service; (v)claim a relationship with or to
speak for any individual, business, association, institution or other
organization for which You are not authorized to claim such a relationship;
(vi)interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected
to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or
regulations of networks connected to the Service; or (vii)reproduce,
duplicate, copy, use, distribute, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any
commercial purposes any portion of the Service.
Fees.
As consideration for the Service, You agree to pay Registrar, or its
agents or subcontractors, as the case may be, an IP Claim fee for each IP
Claim submitted through the Service by credit card through its online
payment system.Such fee shall be due immediately and is non-refundable.Registrar,
or its agents or subcontractors, may take all remedies to collect fees
owed.Registrar, or its agents or subcontractors may require you to submit
and pay for each IP Claim individually or it may allow you store up a
certain number of IP Claims before submitting them for processing.Once you
have stored that number of IP Claims, you may not be able to store any
additional IP Claims and may need to submit them for processing and pay the
applicable fee before obtaining additional storage space.No refunds are
permitted.
Agents.
You agree that, if Your agent (e.g., an attorney, employee, etc.) submits
an IP Claim on Your behalf, You are nonetheless bound as a principal by all
Terms of Use herein. Your continued use of the Services shall ratify any
unauthorized actions of Your agent. By acting on Your behalf, Your agent
certifies that he or she is authorized to use the Service on Your behalf,
that he or she is authorized to bind You to these Terms of Use and that he
or she has apprised You of these Terms of Use of this Agreement.In addition,
You are responsible for any errors made by Your agent.Registrar will not
refund fees paid by You or Your agent on Your behalf for any reason,
including, but not limited to, in the event that Your agent fails to comply
with these Terms of Use, Your agent incorrectly provides information in the
IP Claim process or if Your agent changes or otherwise modifies Your IP
Claim incorrectly.
Copyright.
You acknowledge that the Service, any underlying technology used in
connection with the Service, and all software, material, information,
communications, text, graphics, links, electronic art, animations, audio,
video, photos, and other data (collectively, the “Content”) available within
the Service are provided by Registrar or third-party providers and are the
copyrighted works of Registrar and/or such third parties.Except as expressly
authorized by Registrar or such third parties in these Terms of Use or as
may be posted on the Service, You may not copy, reproduce, publish,
distribute, modify, create derivative works of, rent, lease, sell, transfer,
display, transmit, compile or collect in a database, or in any manner
commercially exploit any part of the Content or the Service, in whole or in
part.You may not store any significant portion of any Content or the Service
owned by, or licensed to Registrar in any form, whether archival files,
computer-readable files, or any other medium.You also may not “mirror” any
Content or the Service on any other server.
Registrar encourages you to download and print a reasonable number of
copies of an IP Claim for non-commercial, internal use only; provided that (i)any
permitted copies contain, in unmodified form, any copyright or other
proprietary rights notices and an original source attribution to the
Service; and (ii)no modifications are made except as may be expressly
provided by Registrar.
Links.
Some links on the Service lead to sites posted by independent site
owners.Because Registrar has no control over these sites, it cannot be
responsible for such sites’ accessibility via the Internet and does not
endorse products, services, or information provided by such sites.As such,
Registrar shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for
any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with,
use or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through
any other site.Further, the inclusion of these links does not imply that the
other sites have given permission for inclusion of these links, or that
there is any relationship between Registrar and the linked sites.
Disclaimer of Warranty, Limitation of Liability. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR
ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.NEITHER REGISTRAR NOR
ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, SHAREHOLDERS, MEMBERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS,
EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR SUBCONTRACTORS WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE; NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE
RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE OR AS TO THE
ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICE.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS, “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT
REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSES AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT WILL REGISTRAR NOR ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, SHAREHOLDERS,
MEMBERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR
SUBCONTRACTORS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INCIDENTAL,
INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), ARISING OUT YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS
OR USE THE SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOSS OF REVENUE OR
ANTICIPATED PROFITS, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOST BUSINESS, LOST DATA, COMPUTER
FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER DAMAGES OR LOSSES THAT RESULT
FROM MISTAKES, INACCURATELY ENTERED DATA, UNAUTHORIZED USE, OMISSIONS,
INTERRUPTIONS, ERRORS, DEFECTS, DELAYS IN OPERATION, OR ANY FAILURE OF
PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR NOT LIMITED TO ACTS OF GOD, COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE,
THEFT, DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO INSTITUTIONS RECORDS, PROGRAMS
OR SERVICES.YOU AGREE THAT THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY REPRESENT
A REASONABLE ALLOCATION OF RISK.
IN NO EVENT, SHALL REGISTRAR BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY AMOUNT EXCEEDING
THE AMOUNT OF FEES PAID BY YOU FOR THE APPLICABLE IP CLAIM.
Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Registrar and its parents,
subsidiaries, shareholders, members, officers, directors, employees,
affiliates, agents and subcontractors from any claim or demand, including
reasonable attorney’s fees made by any third party due to or arising out of
Your use of the Service, your breach of these Terms of Use, any Content
submitted to the Service, or any disputes involving the intellectual
property rights of the Trademarks.
Modifications to the Service. Registrar reserves the right at any time
and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently,
the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice.You agree that
Registrar will not be liable to You or to any third party for any
modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Services.
Termination.
You may discontinue Your participation in and access to the Service at
any time.These Terms of Use will continue to apply to all past use of the
Service by You, even if You are no longer using the Service.You acknowledge
and agree that Registrar may terminate or block Your use of all or part of
the Service without prior notice for any reason, including, without
limitation, if Registrar believes You have engaged in conduct prohibited by
these Terms of Use.You agree that upon termination or discontinuance for any
reason, may delete all information related to You on the Service and may bar
Your access to and use of the Service.
Governing
Law.
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
the laws of the Province of Ontario, without regard to its principles of
conflicts of law.
Changes
to the Terms of Use.
Registrar reserves the right to modify the Terms of Use at any time and
from time to time.Any modifications shall be effective upon the posting of
the modified Terms of Use at http://ipclaims.neulevel.com/legal/conditions.php.You
agree to review these Terms of Use periodically so that You are aware of any
modifications.Your continued use of the Service shall be deemed Your
acceptance of the modified Terms of Use.
Severability.
In the event that any provision of these Terms of Use shall be
unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law or be so held by
applicable court decision, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not
render this Agreement unenforceable or invalid as a whole, and, in such
event, such provision shall be changed and interpreted so as to best
accomplish the objectives of such provision within the limits of applicable
law or applicable court decision.
Third
Party Beneficiary.
Registry Operator (“NeuLevel”) is an intended third party beneficiary of
these Term and Conditions with rights to enforce these Terms of Use.You will
cooperate in good faith with NeuLevel or Registrar in investigating
instances of non-compliance with these Terms of Use, if NeuLevel or
Registrar believes in good faith that you are not in compliance with these
Terms of Use.
Subcontractors.
In the course of providing the IP Claim Service, Registrar may retain
independent contractors or assign or subcontract to or otherwise have any
third party perform any or all of the IP Claim Service at any time, provided
that Registrar shall continue to remain responsible for full performance of
any such duties to the same extent as if it had performed the IP Claim
Service itself.
Entire
Agreement.
These Terms of Use completely and exclusively state the agreement of the
parties regarding the subject matter, and supersede all prior agreements and
understandings, whether written or oral, with respect to the subject matter
of these Terms of Use.
Modifications
to your Account.
In order to change any of your account information with Registrar, you
must use the Account Identifier and Password selected when you opened your
account with Registrar.You agree to safeguard your Account Identifier and
Password from any unauthorized use.In no event shall Registrar be liable for
the unauthorized use or misuse of your Account Identifier or Password.
Breach.
You agree that failure to abide by an provision of this Agreement, any
operating rule or policy or the Dispute Policy provided by Registrar, may be
considered by Registrar to be a material breach and that Registrar 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 Registrar, that you have not breached
your obligations under the Agreement, then Registrar may delete the
registration or reservation of your domain name.Any such breach by you shall
not be deemed to be excused simply because Registrar did not act earlier in
response to that, or any other breach by you.
No
Guarantee.
You acknowledge that reservation of your IP Claim name does not confer
immunity from objection to either the registration, reservation, or use of
the domain name.
Right
of Refusal.
Registrar, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to refuse to
register or reserve your IP Claim name or register you for other services.
You agree that Registrar shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that
may result from its refusal to register, reserve or delete your IP Claim.
Registrar reserves the right to delete or transfer your IP Claim within a
thirty (30) day period following receipt of the application if it believes
the IP Claim has been made possible by a mistake, made either by Registrar
or by a third party.
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 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:
(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 willful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information, your
willful 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 legal@domainnamecom.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:
SpiritLLC
7336 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 715
Los Angeles, CA 90046
U.S.
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.