Registration Agreement - .INFO
- 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 Portline ("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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- Your name and postal address (or, if different, that of the domain
name holder);
- The domain name being registered;
- The name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if available)
telephone numbers of the administrative contact for the domain name;
- 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.
- 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.
- REVOCATION. Your wilful provision of inaccurate or
unreliable information, your wilful failure promptly to update information
provided to us, or your failure to respond for over fifteen (15) calendar
days to inquiries by us concerning the accuracy of contact details associated
with the your registration shall constitute a material breach of this
Agreement and be a basis for cancellation of the domain name registration.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- NOTICES. Any notice, direction or other communication
given under this Agreement shall be in writing and given by sending it
via e-mail or via postal service. In the case of e-mail, valid notice
shall only have been deemed to have been given when an electronic confirmation
of delivery has been obtained by the sender. In the case of e-mail, notifications
must be sent to us at lhutz@tucows.com,
or in the case of notification to you, to the e-mail address provided
by you in your WHOIS record. Any e-mail communication shall be deemed
to have been validly and effectively given on the date of such communication,
if such date is a business day and such delivery was made prior to 4:00
p.m. 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:
TUCOWS Inc.
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6K 3M1
Canada
-- OR --
Portline, Inc.
13150 SW Falcon Rise Drive
Tigard, OR 97223
United States Of America
and in the case of notification to you shall be to the address specified
in the "Administrative Contact" in your WHOIS record.
- 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.
- 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.
- INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to enter
into this Agreement.
- ACCEPTANCE OF AGREEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU
HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU
HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF THE SERVICE AND ARE
NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT, GUARANTEE OR STATEMENT OTHER
THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.
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