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Domain Registration Contract |
EXHIBIT A
Form of Registration Agreement
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs/legal 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. This indemnification obligation will survive
the termination or expiration of this Agreement.
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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 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 name and postal address (or, if
different, that of the domain name holder);
- The domain name being registered;
- The name, postal address, e-mail address,
and voice and fax (if available) telephone
numbers of the administrative contact for
the domain name;
- 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.
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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.
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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 ICANN Agreement
or an ICANN/Registry Operator policy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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INFANCY. You attest
that you are of legal age to enter into this
Agreement.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Controlling
Language. In
the event that you are reading this agreement
in a language other than the English language,
you acknowledge and agree that the English language
version hereof shall prevail in case of inconsistency
or contradiction in interpretation or translation.
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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.
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