.NAME Registration
Agreement:1. AGREEMENT.
In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer to
the registrant of each domain name registration and/or recipient of email
forwarding services, "we", "us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc., "Registry
Operator" refers to The Global Name Registry Ltd. and "Services" refers to
the domain name registration and email forwarding provided by us as offered
through DomainNameCom.com("RSP"). This Agreement explains our obligations to
you, and explains your obligations to us for various Services.
2. .name RESTRICTIONS.
Registrations in the .name top-level domain must constitute an
individual's "Personal Name". For purposes of the .name restrictions (the
"Restrictions"), a "Personal Name" is a person's legal name, or a name by
which the person is commonly known. A "name by which a person is commonly
known" includes, without limitation, a pseudonym used by an author or
painter, or a stage name used by a singer or actor.
3. .name REPRESENTATIONS.
As a .name domain name Registrant, you hereby represent that:
(i) the registered domain name or second level domain ("SLD") email
address is your Personal Name.
(ii) the data provided in the domain name registration application is true,
correct, up to date and complete and that you will continue to keep all of
the information provided correct, current and complete,
(iii) 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;
(iv) that the domain name is not being registered for nor shall it at any
time whatsoever be used for any unlawful purpose whatsoever;
(v) the registration satisfies the Eligibility Requirements found at http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appf-03jul01.htm;
and
(vi) you have the authority to enter into this Registration Agreement.
4. EMAIL FORWARDING SERVICES.
(i) The Services for which you have registered may, at your option,
include email forwarding. To the extent you opt to use email forwarding, you
are obliged to do so in accordance with all applicable legislation and are
responsible for all use of email forwarding, including the content of
messages sent through email forwarding.
(ii) You undertake to familiarize yourself with the content of and to
comply with the generally accepted rules for Internet and email usage. This
includes, but is not limited to the Acceptable Use Policy, available at
http://www.theglobalname.org/ as well as the following restrictions. Without
prejudice to the foregoing, you undertake not to use email forwarding:
(a) to encourage, allow or participate in any form of illegal or
unsuitable activity, including but not restricted to the exchange of
threatening, obscene or offensive messages, spreading computer viruses,
breach of copyright and/or proprietary rights or publishing defamatory
material;
(b) to gain illegal access to systems or networks by unauthorized access
to or use of the data in systems or networks, including all attempts at
guessing passwords, checking or testing the vulnerability of a system or
network or breaching the security or access control without the sufficient
approval of the owner of the system or network;
(c) to interrupt data traffic to other users, servers or networks,
including, but not restricted to, mail bombing, flooding, Denial of Service
(DoS) attacks, wilful attempts to overload another system or other forms of
harassment; or
(d) for spamming, which includes, but is not restricted to, the mass
mailing of unsolicited email, junk mail, the use of distribution lists
(mailing lists) which include persons who have not specifically given their
consent to be placed on such distribution list. Users are not permitted to
provide false names or in any other way to pose as somebody else when using
email forwarding.
(iii) Registry Operator reserves the right to implement additional
anti-spam measures, to block spam or mail from systems with a history of
abuse from entering Registry Operator's email forwarding. However, due to
the nature of such systems, which actively block messages, Registry Operator
shall make public any decision to implement such systems a reasonable time
in advance, so as to allow you or us to give feedback on the decision.
(iv) You understand and agree that Registry Operator may delete material
that does not conform to clause (c) above or that in some other way
constitutes a misuse of email forwarding. You further understand and agree
that Registry Operator is at liberty to block your access to email
forwarding if you use email forwarding in a way that contravenes this
Agreement. You will be given prior warning of discontinuation of the email
forwarding unless it would damage the reputation of Registry Operator or
jeopardize the security of Registry Operator or others to do so. Registry
Operator reserves the right to immediately discontinue email forwarding
without notice if the technical stability of email forwarding is threatened
in any way, or if you are in breach of this Agreement. On discontinuing
email forwarding, Registry Operator is not obliged to store any contents or
to forward unsent email to you or a third party.
(v) You understand and agree that to the extent either we and/or Registry
Operator is required by law to disclose certain information or material in
connection with your email forwarding, either we and/or Registry Operator
will do so in accordance with such requirement and without notice to you.
5. FEES.
As consideration for the Services you have selected, 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
statements in your Application are true, complete and accurate.
6. 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.
7. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT.
You agree that we may in our sole discretion: (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. 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. We will not refund any fees paid by you if you
terminate your agreement with us.
8. 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. You will
not be able to transfer your domain name during the first sixty (60) days
following registration of the domain name with us. Beginning on the
sixty-first (61st) day following the registration, the policies set forth
at: http://www.opensrs.org/dotname_info.shtml shall apply.
9. 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.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml. Please take the time to familiarize
yourself with this policy. In addition, you hereby acknowledge that you have
read and understood and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the
following documents, as they may be amended from time to time, which are
hereby incorporated and made an integral part of this Agreement.
(i) the Eligibility Requirements (the "Eligibility Requirements"),
available at http://www.icann.org.tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appl-03jul01.htm;
(ii) the Eligibility Requirements Dispute Resolution Policy (the "ERDRP"),
available at http://www.icann.org.tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appm-03jul01.htm;
and
(iii) the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "UDRP"),
available at http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appm-03jul01.htm.
The Eligibility Requirements dictate that Personal Name domain names and
Personal Name SLD email addresses will be granted on a first-come,
first-served basis, except for registrations granted as a result of a
dispute resolution proceeding or during the landrush procedures in
connection with the opening of the Registry TLD. The following categories of
Personal Name Registrations may be registered: (i) the Personal Name of an
individual; (ii) the Personal Name of a fictional character, if you have
trademark or service make rights in that character's Personal Name; (iii) in
addition to a Personal Name registration, you may add numeric characters to
the beginning or the end of the Personal Name so as to differentiate it from
other Personal Names.
The ERDRP applies to challenges to (i) registered domain names and SLD
email address registrations within .name on the grounds that a Registrant
does not meet the Eligibility Requirements, and (ii) to Defensive
Registrations (as defined by the Registry Operator) within .name.
The UDRP sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a dispute
between a Registrant and party other than Global Name Registry ("Registry
Operator") or Registrar over the registration and use of an Internet domain
name registered by a Registrant.
10. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY MODIFICATIONS.
You agree that we, in our sole discretion, may modify our dispute policy.
We will post any such revised policy on our Web site at least thirty (30)
calendar days before it becomes effective. You agree that, by maintaining
the reservation or registration of your domain name or SLD email address
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
modification, you may terminate this Agreement. We will not refund any fees
paid by you if you terminate your Agreement with us.
11. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES.
You agree that, if your use of our domain name registration services is
challenged by a third party, you will be subject to the provisions specified
in our 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 set
forth below in this agreement. If we are notified that a complaint has been
filed with a judicial or administrative body regarding your use of our
domain name registration services, you agree not to make any changes to your
domain name record without our prior approval. We may not allow you to make
changes to such domain name record until (i) we are directed to do so by the
judicial or administrative body, or (ii) we receive notification by you and
the other party contesting your registration and use of our domain name
registration services that the dispute has been settled. Furthermore, you
agree that if you are subject to litigation regarding your registration and
use of our domain name registration services, we may deposit control of your
domain name record into the Registry of the judicial body by supplying a
party with a Registrar certificate from us.
12. POLICY.
You agree that your registration of the domain name shall be subject to
suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any Tucows, Registry
Operator, ICANN or government-adopted policy, or pursuant to any registrar
or registry procedure not inconsistent with an ICANN or government-adopted
policy, (1) to correct mistakes by us or the applicable Registry in
registering the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes concerning the
domain name.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
You agree that neither we nor the Registry Operator will have any
liability of any kind for any loss or liability resulting from (i) the
processing of registration requests prior to live SRS launch, including,
without limitation, your ability or inability to obtain a .name domain name
or SLD email address registration using these processes; or (ii) any dispute
over any .name domain name, SLD email address, Defensive Registration or
NameWatch Registration (as defined by the Registry Operator), including the
decision of any dispute resolution proceeding related to any of the
foregoing.
16. INDEMNITY.
You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, the Registry Operator, 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 out of or
relating to the domain name registered 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 both us and the
Registry Operator harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions contained in
the Dispute Policies. 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. This
indemnification obligation will survive the termination or expiration of
this Agreement.
17. 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.
18. 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 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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 full name, postal address, e-mail address and voice telephone
number and fax number (if available) (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 telephone number
and fax number (if available) telephone numbers of the administrative
contact, the technical contact and the billing contact for the domain name;
(iv) The IP addresses and names of the primary nameserver and any secondary
nameserver(s) for the domain name.
You acknowledge and agree that the foregoing registration data will be
publicly available and accessible on the Whois directory as required by
ICANN and may be sold in bulk in accordance with ICANN policy. You further
understand and agree that the foregoing registration data may be transferred
internationally.
22. 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.
23. REVOCATION.
Your wilful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information, your
wilful failure promptly to update information provided to us, or any failure
to respond to inquiries by us addressed to the email address of the
registrant, the administrative, billing or technical contact appearing in
the "Whois" directory with respect to a domain name 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. Any information collected by us concerning an
identified or identifiable natural person ("Personal Data") will be used in
connection with the registration of your domain name(s) and for the purposes
of this Agreement and as required or permitted by the ICANN Agreement or an
ICANN/Registry Operator policy.
24. RIGHT OF REFUSAL.
We, and/or Registry Operator, in our sole discretion, reserve the right
to refuse to register or reserve your chosen domain name or register you for
other Services, to protect the integrity and stability of the Registry, to
comply with any applicable laws, government rules or requirements, requests
of law enforcement, in compliance with the dispute resolution process, or to
avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on our part and/or that of the
Registry Operator, as well as our affiliates, subsidiaries, officers,
directors and employees. We and the Registry Operator reserve the right to
suspend a domain name during the resolution of a dispute.
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 a 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.
25. We reserve the right to delete or transfer your domain name following
registration if we believe the registration has been made possible by a
mistake, made either by us or by a third party.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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
be given when an electronic confirmation of delivery has been obtained by
the sender. In the case of e-mail, notifications must be sent to us at lhutz@tucows.com,
or in the case of notification to you, to the e-mail address provided by you
in your WHOIS record. Any e-mail communication shall be deemed to have been
validly and effectively given on the date of such communication, if such
date is a business day and such delivery was made prior to 4:00 p.m. EST,
otherwise it will be deemed to have been delivered on the next business day.
In the case of regular mail notice, valid notice shall be deemed to have
been validly and effectively given 5 business days after the date of mailing
and, in the case of notification to us or to 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
30. ENTIRETY.
You agree that this Agreement, the rules and policies published by
Tucows, ICANN and/or the Registry Operator 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.
31. 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.
32. INFANCY.
You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this Agreement.
33. 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.