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US Registration Agreement
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SCHEDULE A
Form of Registration Agreement
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement
("Agreement") "Registrant", "you" and "your" refer
to the registrant of each domain name registration, "we", "us" and "our" refer
to TUCOWS Inc., "Registry Operator" refers to NeuStar
Inc., "DOC" refers to the United States of America
Department of Commerce, and "Services" refers to
the domain name registration provided by us as offered
through Brainstorm Industries, Inc. ("RSP"). This
Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains
your obligations to us for various Services.
2. .us NEXUS REQUIREMENT. Only those individuals
or organizations that have a substantive lawful connection
in the United States are permitted to register for
.usTLD domain names. Registrants in the .usTLD must
satisfy the nexus requirement ("Nexus" or "Nexus
Requirements") set out at http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf
3. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You certify
and represent that:
- You have and shall continue to have, a bona
fide presence in the United States on the basis
of real and substantial lawful contacts with,
or lawful activities in, the United States as
defined in Section 2 hereinabove.
- The listed name servers are located within
the United States;
- 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, up-to-date
and complete;
- 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;
- That the domain name is not being registered
for nor shall it at any time whatsoever be used
for any unlawful purpose whatsoever;
- You have the authority to enter into this
Registration Agreement.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 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 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.
7. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. You shall
maintain your own records appropriate to document
and prove the initial registration date of the domain
name. 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.
8. 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 and the usDRP,
as defined below, that is incorporated herein and
made a part of this Agreement by reference. Please
take the time to familiarize yourself with these
policies.
9. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You acknowledge having
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:
- The Nexus Dispute Policy ("Dispute
Policy), available at http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf.
The Dispute Policy will provide interested parties
with an opportunity to challenge a registration
not complying with the Nexus Requirements.
- The usTLD Dispute Resolution Policy
("usDRP"). The usDRP is intended to provide interested
parties with an opportunity to challenge a registration
based on alleged trademark infringement. In addition
to the foregoing, you agree that, for the adjudication
of disputes concerning or arising from use of
the Registered Name, you shall submit, without
prejudice to other potentially applicable jurisdictions,
to the jurisdiction of the courts (i) of your
domicile,
- where Tucows is located, and
- the United States.
10. POLICY. You agree that your registration
of the domain name shall be subject to suspension,
cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any Tucows,
Registry Operator, the DOC or government-adopted
policy, or pursuant to any registrar or registry
procedure not inconsistent with a DOC 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. The Registry
Operator's policies can be found at http://www.neustar.us/policies.
11. 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. You acknowledge and agree
that the domain name has not been registered solely
for the purposes of selling, trading or leasing for
compensation and will be used for a business or commercial
purpose.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify,
and hold us, the Registry Operator, the DOC, our
respective 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. This indemnification obligation
will survive the termination or expiration of this
agreement.
15. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. 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 to be 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 may 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.
16. BREACH. You agree that failure to abide
by any provision of this Agreement including but
not limited to any failure to abide by the Nexus
Requirements, 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.
17. 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.
18. 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. If
you license use of the domain name, you nonetheless
agree that you shall accept any and all liability
for any harm caused by said licensed use and suffered
by Tucows, the Registry Operator and/or the DOC.
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.
19. 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 full name, postal address, e-mail
address and telephone number and fax number (if
available) (or, if different, that of the domain
name holder);
- The domain name being registered;
- The name, postal address, e-mail address,
and telephone number and fax number (if available)
telephone numbers of the administrative contact,
the technical contact and the billing contact
for the domain name;
- The IP addresses and names of the primary
nameserver and any secondary nameserver(s) for
the domain name;
- In addition to the foregoing, you will
be required to provide additional Nexus Information.
The Nexus Information requirements are set out
at http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf.
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.
20. DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You
agree and acknowledge that we will make domain name
registration information you provide available to
the DOC, to the Registry Operator, 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 the DOC 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.
21. 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 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 DOC
or Registry Operator policy.
22. 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. 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 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 a dispute.
23. 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. 24.
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.
25. 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.
26. 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:
TUCOWS Inc.
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
CANADA
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
27. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement,
the rules and policies published by Tucows, the DOC
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.
28. 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.
29. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal
age to enter into this Agreement.
30. 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.
Last Updated: Thursday, 28-Jun-2001
12:19:34 EDT By: Ken
Joy
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