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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The person named as registrant on the WHOIS shall be the registered name
holder. The person named as administrative contact at the time the controlling user name and password are secured shall be
deemed the designate of the registrant with the authority to manage 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this 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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