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 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.
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 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:
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.
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.