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SCHEDULE A -
Form of Registration Agreement - .NAME domains
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1.
AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement
("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer
to the registrant of each domain name registration and/or recipient
of email forwarding services, "we", "us" and
"our" refer to TUCOWS Inc., "Registry Operator"
refers to The Global Name Registry Ltd. and "Services"
refers to the domain name registration and email forwarding provided
by us as offered through____________________("RSP"). This
Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your
obligations to us for various Services.
2. .name RESTRICTIONS. Registrations in the .name
top-level domain must constitute an individual's "Personal Name".
For purposes of the .name restrictions (the "Restrictions"),
a "Personal Name" is a person's legal name, or a name by
which the person is commonly known. A "name by which a person
is commonly known" includes, without limitation, a pseudonym
used by an author or painter, or a stage name used by a singer or
actor.
3. .name REPRESENTATIONS. As a .name domain
name Registrant, you hereby represent that:
(i) the registered domain name or second level domain ("SLD")
email address is your Personal Name.
(ii) 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, current and
complete,
(iii) 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;
(iv) that the domain name is not being registered for nor shall it
at any time whatsoever be used for any unlawful purpose whatsoever;
(v) the registration satisfies the Eligibility Requirements found at
http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appf-03jul01.htm;
and
(vi) you have the authority to enter into this Registration
Agreement.
4. EMAIL FORWARDING SERVICES.
(i) The Services for which you have registered may, at your option,
include email forwarding. To the extent you opt to use email
forwarding, you are obliged to do so in accordance with all
applicable legislation and are responsible for all use of email
forwarding, including the content of messages sent through email
forwarding.
(ii) You undertake to familiarize yourself with the content of and
to comply with the generally accepted rules for Internet and email
usage. This includes, but is not limited to the Acceptable Use
Policy, available at http://www.theglobalname.org/
as well as the following restrictions. Without prejudice to the
foregoing, you undertake not to use email forwarding:
(a) to encourage, allow or participate in any form of illegal or
unsuitable activity, including but not restricted to the exchange of
threatening, obscene or offensive messages, spreading computer
viruses, breach of copyright and/or proprietary rights or publishing
defamatory material;
(b) to gain illegal access to systems or networks by unauthorized
access to or use of the data in systems or networks, including all
attempts at guessing passwords, checking or testing the
vulnerability of a system or network or breaching the security or
access control without the sufficient approval of the owner of the
system or network;
(c) to interrupt data traffic to other users, servers or networks,
including, but not restricted to, mail bombing, flooding, Denial of
Service (DoS) attacks, wilful attempts to overload another system or
other forms of harassment; or
(d) for spamming, which includes, but is not restricted to, the mass
mailing of unsolicited email, junk mail, the use of distribution
lists (mailing lists) which include persons who have not
specifically given their consent to be placed on such distribution
list. Users are not permitted to provide false names or in any other
way to pose as somebody else when using email forwarding.
(iii) Registry Operator reserves the right to implement additional
anti-spam measures, to block spam or mail from systems with a
history of abuse from entering Registry Operator's email forwarding.
However, due to the nature of such systems, which actively block
messages, Registry Operator shall make public any decision to
implement such systems a reasonable time in advance, so as to allow
you or us to give feedback on the decision.
(iv) You understand and agree that Registry Operator may delete
material that does not conform to clause (c) above or that in some
other way constitutes a misuse of email forwarding. You further
understand and agree that Registry Operator is at liberty to block
your access to email forwarding if you use email forwarding in a way
that contravenes this Agreement. You will be given prior warning of
discontinuation of the email forwarding unless it would damage the
reputation of Registry Operator or jeopardize the security of
Registry Operator or others to do so. Registry Operator reserves the
right to immediately discontinue email forwarding without notice if
the technical stability of email forwarding is threatened in any
way, or if you are in breach of this Agreement. On discontinuing
email forwarding, Registry Operator is not obliged to store any
contents or to forward unsent email to you or a third party.
(v) You understand and agree that to the extent either we and/or
Registry Operator is required by law to disclose certain information
or material in connection with your email forwarding, either we
and/or Registry Operator will do so in accordance with such
requirement and without notice to you.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree that
we may in our sole discretion: (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. We will
not refund any fees paid by you if you terminate your agreement with
us.
8. 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. You will not be able to transfer your domain name
during the first sixty (60) days following registration of the
domain name with us. Beginning on the sixty-first (61st) day
following the registration, the policies set forth at: http://www.opensrs.org/dotname_info.shtml
shall apply.
9. 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. In
addition, you hereby acknowledge that you have 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 Eligibility Requirements (the "Eligibility Requirements"),
available at http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appl-03jul01.htm;
(ii) the Eligibility Requirements Dispute Resolution Policy (the
"ERDRP"), available at http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appm-03jul01.htm;
and
(iii) the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "UDRP"),
available at http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appm-03jul01.htm.
The Eligibility Requirements dictate that Personal Name domain names
and Personal Name SLD email addresses will be granted on a
first-come, first-served basis, except for registrations granted as
a result of a dispute resolution proceeding or during the landrush
procedures in connection with the opening of the Registry TLD. The
following categories of Personal Name Registrations may be
registered: (i) the Personal Name of an individual; (ii) the
Personal Name of a fictional character, if you have trademark or
service make rights in that character's Personal Name; (iii) in
addition to a Personal Name registration, you may add numeric
characters to the beginning or the end of the Personal Name so as to
differentiate it from other Personal Names.
The ERDRP applies to challenges to (i) registered domain names and
SLD email address registrations within .name on the grounds that a
Registrant does not meet the Eligibility Requirements, and (ii) to
Defensive Registrations (as defined by the Registry Operator) within
.name.
The UDRP sets forth the terms and conditions in connection with a
dispute between a Registrant and party other than Global Name
Registry ("Registry Operator") or Registrar over the
registration and use of an Internet domain name registered by a
Registrant.
10. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY MODIFICATIONS.
You agree that we, in our sole discretion, may modify our dispute
policy. We will post any such revised policy on our Web site at
least thirty (30) calendar days before it becomes effective. You
agree that, by maintaining the reservation or registration of your
domain name or SLD email address 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 modification, you
may terminate this Agreement. We will not refund any fees paid by
you if you terminate your Agreement with us.
11. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You agree that, if
your use of our domain name registration services is challenged by a
third party, you will be subject to the provisions specified in our
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 set forth below in this agreement. If we are notified
that a complaint has been filed with a judicial or administrative
body regarding your use of our domain name registration services,
you agree not to make any changes to your domain name record without
our prior approval. We may not allow you to make changes to such
domain name record until (i) we are directed to do so by the
judicial or administrative body, or (ii) we receive notification by
you and the other party contesting your registration and use of our
domain name registration services that the dispute has been settled.
Furthermore, you agree that if you are subject to litigation
regarding your registration and use of our domain name registration
services, we may deposit control of your domain name record into the
Registry of the judicial body by supplying a party with a Registrar
certificate from us.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
You agree that neither we nor the Registry Operator will have any
liability of any kind for any loss or liability resulting from (i)
the processing of registration requests prior to live SRS launch,
including, without limitation, your ability or inability to obtain a
.name domain name or SLD email address registration using these
processes; or (ii) any dispute over any .name domain name, SLD email
address, Defensive Registration or NameWatch Registration (as
defined by the Registry Operator), including the decision of any
dispute resolution proceeding related to any of the foregoing.
16. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify,
and hold us, the Registry Operator, 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
out of or relating to the domain name registered 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 both us and
the Registry Operator harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions
contained in the Dispute Policies. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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 full name, postal address, e-mail address and voice
telephone number and fax number (if available) (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 telephone
number and fax number (if available) telephone numbers of the
administrative contact, the technical contact and the billing
contact for the domain name;
(iv) The IP addresses and names of the primary nameserver and any
secondary nameserver(s) for the domain name.
You acknowledge and agree that the foregoing registration data will
be publicly available and accessible on the Whois directory as
required by ICANN and may be sold in bulk in accordance with ICANN
policy. You further understand and agree that the foregoing
registration data may be transferred internationally.
22. 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.
23. 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 your
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.
24. 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, to protect the integrity and stability of the
Registry, to comply with any applicable laws, government rules or
requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with the
dispute resolution process, or to avoid any liability, civil or
criminal, on our part and/or that of the Registry Operator, as well
as our affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors and employees.
We and the Registry Operator reserve the right to suspend a domain
name during the resolution of a dispute.
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 a 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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
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
30. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement,
the rules and policies published by Tucows, ICANN 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.
31. 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.
32. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal
age to enter into this Agreement.
33. 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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