OpenSRS Registration Agreement for .tv
APPENDIX 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 .tv domain name registration provided by us as offered through NRTC
Communications. (“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
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.
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. |
