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.