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.