1. AGREEMENT. In this
Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and
"your" refer to each customer, "we", us"
and "our" refer to TUCOWS.com Inc. and
"Services" refers to the domain name registration provided
by us as offered through Energetex Engineering , the Registration
Service Provider ("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, to the best of the your knowledge and
belief, neither the registration of the SLD name nor the manner in
which it is directly or indirectly used infringes the legal rights
of a third party and that the Domain Name is not being registered
for any unlawful purpose.
3. FEES. As
consideration for the services you have selected, you agree to pay
to us, or your respective RSP who remits payment to us on your
behalf, 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"). You, by completing and submitting this Agreement
represent that the statements in your application are true.
4. TERM. You agree that
the Registration Agreement will remain in full force during the
length of the term of your Domain Name Registration. Should you
choose to renew or otherwise lengthen the term of your Domain Name
Registration, then the term of this Registration Agreement will be
extended accordingly. This Agreement will remain in full force
during the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration 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 will be extended accordingly. Should you transfer your
domain name or should the domain name otherwise be transferred due
to another Registrar, the terms and conditions of this contract
shall cease and shall be replaced by the contractual terms in force
for the purpose of registering domain names then in force between
SLD holders and the new Registrar.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO
AGREEMENT. You agree, during the period of this Agreement, that we
may: (1) revise the terms and conditions of this Agreement; and (2)
change the services provided under this Agreement. Any such revision
or change will be binding and effective immediately on posting of
the revised Agreement or change to the service(s) on our web site,
or on notification to you by e-mail or regular mail as per the
Notices section of this agreement. You agree to review our web site,
including the Agreement, periodically to be aware of any 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 regular mail as per the Notices section of this
agreement. Notice of your termination will be effective on receipt
and processing by us. You agree that, by continuing to use the
Services following notice of any revision to this Agreement or
change in service(s), you shall abide by any such revisions or
changes. You further agree to abide by the ICANN Uniform Dispute
Resolution Policy ("Dispute Policy") as amended from time
to time. You agree that, by maintaining the reservation or
registration of your domain name after modifications to the Dispute
Policy become effective, you have agreed to these modifications. 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. Please safeguard your Account
Identifier and Password from any unauthorized use. In no event will
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 which 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.IndianNIC.com/udrp.shtm.
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 Dispute Policy in effect at the time of
the dispute. 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 Dispute
Policy. For any dispute, you agree to submit to the jurisdiction of
the courts of The Province of Ontario.
9. ICANN POLICY. You
agree that your registration of the SLD name shall be subject to
suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any ICANN-adopted
policy, or pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure not
inconsistent with an ICANN-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes
by Registrar or the Registry in registering the name or (2) for the
resolution of disputes concerning the SLD name.
10. AGENCY. Should you
intend to license use of a domain name to a third party you shall
nonetheless be the SLD 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 SLD. You shall accept liability
for harm caused by wrongful use of the SLD, unless you promptly
disclose the identity of the licensee to the party providing you
reasonable evidence of actionable harm. You also represent that you
have provided notice of the terms and conditions in this Agreement
to the third party and that the third party agrees to the terms of
Disclosure and Use of Registration Information (sections 18 and 19
of this Agreement).
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We
and the RSP 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). We and our contractors shall
not 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 states do not allow the exclusion or
limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in
such states, 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 mis-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 and affiliates harmless from all
liabilities, claims and expenses, including without limitation
Network Solutions, Inc., and the directors, officers, employees and
agents of each of them, 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 with your
computer, 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 may be considered by us to be a breach of your
Agreement and may result in deactivation of your domain name.
14. TRANSFER OF
OWNERSHIP. The person named as administrative contact at the time
the controlling 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.
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
agree that, by registration or reservation of your chosen domain
name, such registration or reservation 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 such that we can
continue to improve 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
ICANN and applicable laws may require or permit. 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 the applicable laws.
You hereby consent to
any and all such disclosures and use of, and guidelines, limits and
restrictions on disclosure or 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 access or 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 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 SLD 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 within thirty (30) calendar days from receipt of your
payment for such 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.
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 Policy 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 regular mail.
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 notification to us or
to the RSP to lhutz@tucows.com
or domains@Indiannic.com
or, in the case of notice to you, at 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 the RSP shall be sent to:
TUCOWS.com Inc.
Registrant Affairs
Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
- OR -
Energetex Engineering
276 Old Post Road
Waterloo Ontario
Canada N2L 5B9
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.