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Domain Registration Agreement and Dispute Policy |
.tv 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 .tv domain
name registration provided by us as offered through WebIntellects,
Inc. (“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 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 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. Failure to maintain accurate information will
be considered a material breach of this Agreement and will
entitle us to delete your domain name registration.
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 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. 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.
9. POLICY. You agree that your registration of the .tv domain
name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer
pursuant to any 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.
You acknowledge that you have reviewed the .tv General Terms
of Service which may be found at: http://www.tv/en-def-5066945b5fcc/en/policies/tos.shtml
and expressly agree to the terms outlined therein.
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 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, affiliates
and third party beneficiaires 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 administrative
contact 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). 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 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.
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 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
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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. |