gTLD
Registration Agreement:
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement
("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer to each customer, "we", us" and "our"
refer to DomainNameCom.com and "Services" refers to the domain name
registration provided by us as offered through DomainNameCom.com the
Registration Service Provider ("RSP"). This Agreement explains our
obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us for various
Services.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to
the best of the your knowledge and belief, neither the registration of the
SLD name nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly used infringes
the legal rights of a third party and that the Domain Name is not being
registered for any unlawful purpose.
3. FEES. As consideration for the services you have
selected, you agree to pay to us, or your respective RSP who remits payment
to us on your behalf, 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"). You, by completing and submitting this Agreement represent
that the statements in your application are true.
4. TERM. You agree that the Registration Agreement will
remain in full force during the length of the term of your Domain Name
Registration. Should you choose to renew or otherwise lengthen the term of
your Domain Name Registration, then the term of this Registration Agreement
will be extended accordingly. This Agreement will remain in full force
during the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration 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 will be extended
accordingly. Should you transfer your domain name or should the domain name
otherwise be transferred due to another Registrar, the terms and conditions
of this contract shall cease and shall be replaced by the contractual terms
in force for the purpose of registering domain names then in force between
SLD holders and the new Registrar.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree, during the
period of this Agreement, that we may: (1) revise the terms and conditions
of this Agreement; and (2) change the services provided under this
Agreement. Any such revision or change will be binding and effective
immediately on posting of the revised Agreement or change to the service(s)
on our web site, or on notification to you by e-mail or regular mail as per
the Notices section of this agreement. You agree to review our web site,
including the Agreement, periodically to be aware of any 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 regular mail
as per the Notices section of this agreement. Notice of your termination
will be effective on receipt and processing by us. You agree that, by
continuing to use the Services following notice of any revision to this
Agreement or change in service(s), you shall abide by any such revisions or
changes. You further agree to abide by the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution
Policy ("Dispute Policy") as amended from time to time. You agree that, by
maintaining the reservation or registration of your domain name after
modifications to the Dispute Policy become effective, you have agreed to
these modifications. 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. Please
safeguard your Account Identifier and Password from any unauthorized use. In
no event will 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 which 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.domainnamecom.com/legal/gtld.htm. 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
in effect at the time of the dispute. 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. For any dispute, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the
courts of The Province of Ontario.
9. ICANN POLICY. You agree that your registration of the
SLD name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant
to any ICANN-adopted policy, or pursuant to any registrar or registry
procedure not inconsistent with an ICANN-adopted policy, (1) to correct
mistakes by Registrar or the Registry in registering the name or (2) for the
resolution of disputes concerning the SLD name.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend to license use of a domain
name to a third party you shall nonetheless be the SLD 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 SLD. You shall accept liability for harm caused
by wrongful use of the SLD, unless you promptly disclose the identity of the
licensee to the party providing you reasonable evidence of actionable harm.
You also represent that you have provided notice of the terms and conditions
in this Agreement to the third party and that the third party agrees to the
terms of Disclosure and Use of Registration Information (sections 18 and 19
of this Agreement).
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We and the RSP 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). We and our contractors
shall not 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
states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for
consequential or incidental damages, in such states, 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.
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 and affiliates
harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses, including without
limitation Network Solutions, Inc., and the directors, officers, employees
and agents of each of them, 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 with your computer, 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 may be considered by us to be a breach
of your Agreement and may result in deactivation of your domain name.
14. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. The person named as
administrative contact at the time the controlling 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.
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 agree that, by registration or
reservation of your chosen domain name, such registration or reservation
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
such that we can continue to improve 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 ICANN and applicable laws may require or permit. 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 the applicable laws.
You hereby consent to any and all such disclosures and
use of, and guidelines, limits and restrictions on disclosure or 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 access or
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 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 SLD 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 within thirty (30) calendar days from
receipt of your payment for such 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.
22. SEVER ABILITY. 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 Policy 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 regular mail. 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 notification to us or to the RSP to
lhutz@Tucows.com or
info@domainnamecom.com
or, in the case of notice to you, at 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 the RSP shall be sent to:
Tucows.com Inc.
Registrant Affairs Office 96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6K 3M1
- OR -
SpiritLLC
7336 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 715
Los Angeles, CA 90046
U.S.
Tel. +1 407 562 1851
Fax +1 407 650 2799
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.