SCHEDULE
B
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.
2.
SELECTION OF A DOMAIN
NAME. You represent that:
(i)
the data provided in the domain name
registration application is true, correct, up to date and complete,
(ii)
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;
(iii)
that the domain name is not being
registered for nor shall it at any time whatsoever be used for any unlawful
purpose whatsoever
(iv)
the registered domain name will be used
primarily for bona fide business or commercial purposes and not (a) exclusively
for personal use, or (b) solely for the purposes of (1) selling, trading or
leasing the domain name for compensation, or (2) the unsolicited offering to
sell, trade or lease the domain name for compensation;
(v)
you have the authority to enter into
this Registration Agreement; and
(vi)
the registered domain name is
reasonably related to your business or intended commercial purpose at the time
of registration.
3.
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.
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. 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 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.
8.
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:
(i)
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy (“Dispute Policy), available at
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm;
(ii)
The Start-Up Dispute Resolution Policy
(“SUDRP”), available at http://www.neulevel.com/countdown/stop.html;
and
(iii)
The Restrictions Dispute Resolution
Criteria and Rules (“RDRP”), available at
http://www.neulevel.com/;
(collectively, “Dispute Policies”).
The SUDRP sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a
dispute between a registrant of a .biz domain name (“Registrant”) with any third
party (other than Neulevel, Inc. (“Registry Operator”) or Tucows over the
registration or use of a .biz domain name registered by you that is subject to
the Start-up Intellectual Property Notification Service (“SIPNS”). SIPNS is a service introduced by
Registry Operator to notify a trademark or service mark holder (“Claimant”) that
a second-level domain name has been registered in which that Claimant claims
intellectual property rights. In
accordance with the SUDRP and its associated Rules, those Claimants will have
the right to challenge registrations through independent ICANN-accredited
dispute resolution providers.
The Dispute Policy sets forth the terms and conditions in connection
with a dispute between a Registrant and any party other than the Registry
Operator or Registrar over the registration and use of an Internet domain name
registered by Registrant.
The RDRP sets forth the terms under which any allegation that a
domain name is not used primarily for business or commercial purposes shall be
endorsed on a case-by-case, fact specific basis by an independent
ICANN-accredited dispute provider.
9.
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.
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, 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.
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.