In order that a party may hold a valid .ca domain name
registration, TUCOWS, requires that all registrants adhere
to certain terms and conditions. As an organization or
individual applying to register, transfer or renew an
.ca domain name via the agency of WebTwister and/or TUCOWS you accordingly agree as follows:
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration
Agreement ("Agreement") , "we", us"
and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc. and Services
refers to the domain name registration, transfer or renewal
services provided by us as offered through WebTwister the Registration Service Provider (RSP).
CIRA shall refer to the entity granted the exclusive right
to administer the registry for .ca domain name registrations.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME.
You represent that, to the best of the your knowledge
and belief, neither the registration of the domain name
nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly used
infringes the legal rights of a third party and that the
domain name is not being registered for any unlawful purpose.
3. FEES. As consideration for the
Services you have selected, you agree to pay to us, or
your respective RSP who remits payment to us on your behalf,
the applicable 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"). You, by completing and submitting
this Agreement represent that the statements in your application
are true.
4. TERM. You agree that this Agreement
will remain in full force during the term of your domain
name registration as selected, recorded, and paid for
upon registration of the domain name. Should you choose
to renew the term of your domain name registration, then
the term of this Agreement will be extended accordingly.
Should you transfer your domain name or should the domain
name otherwise be transferred to another Registrar, the
terms and conditions of this contract shall cease and
shall be replaced by the contractual terms in force between
domain name registrants and the new Registrar.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT.
You agree, during the period of this Agreement, that we
may: (1) revise the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
and (2) change the services provided under this Agreement.
Any such revision or change will be binding and effective
immediately on posting of the revised Agreement or change
to the service(s) on our web site, or on notification
to you by e-mail or regular mail as per the Notices section
of this agreement. You agree to review our web site, including
the Agreement, periodically to be aware of any 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 regular mail as per the Notices
section of this agreement. Notice of your termination
will be effective on receipt and processing by us. You
agree that, by continuing to use the Services following
notice of any revision to this Agreement or change in
service(s), you shall abide by any such revisions or changes.
You further agree to abide by the CIRA dispute resolution
policy (Dispute Policy) as amended from time
to time. You agree that, by maintaining the reservation
or registration of your domain name 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 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.
Please safeguard your account identifier and password
from any unauthorized use. In no event will 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 which is incorporated
herein and made a part of this Agreement by reference.
The current version of the Dispute Policy may be found
at the CIRA website. 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 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 contained in the Dispute Policy.
9. CIRA POLICY. You agree that
your registration of the domain name shall be subject
to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any
CIRA-adopted policy, or pursuant to any registrar or registry
procedure not inconsistent with an CIRA-adopted policy,
(1) to correct mistakes by a registrar 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 registrant 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 thedomain name. You
also represent that you have provided notice of the terms
and conditions in this Agreement to the third party and
that the third party agrees to the terms of Disclosure
and Use of Registration Information (sections 18 and 19
of this Agreement).
11. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We and the RSP
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). We and our contractors
shall not 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.
13. INDEMNITY. You agree to release,
indemnify, and hold us, our contractors, agents, employees,officers,
directors and affiliates harmless from all liabilities,
claims and expenses, including attorney's fees, from claims
by third parties, including but not limited to the RSP
and CIRA 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 with your computer, 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 CIRA 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 may be considered by us to be a breach of your
Agreement and may result in deactivation of your domain
name.
14. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. Any
transfer of ownership in and to a domain name registration
shall be affected in accordance with CIRA policies and
procedures.
15. BREACH. You agree that failure
to abide by any provision of this Agreement, any operating
rule or policy or the Dispute Policy, 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 agree that,
by registration or reservation of your chosen domain name,
such registration or reservation 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.
(v) The Internet Protocol number
of the primary name server and secondary name server(s)
for each domain name registration and the corresponding
names of those name servers.
Any voluntary information we request
is collected such that we can continue to improve 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 CIRA, to the registry administrators, and to other
third parties as CIRA and applicable laws may require
or permit. 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 CIRA and the applicable laws.
You hereby consent to any and all
such disclosures and use of, and guidelines, limits and
restrictions on disclosure or 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 willful provision
of inaccurate or unreliable information, your willful
failure promptly to update information provided to us,
or your failure to respond for over fifteen 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 within thirty (30) calendar days from receipt
of your payment for such 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.
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
regular mail. 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 notification to us or to the RSP
to lhutz@tucows.com or
or, in
the case of notice to you, at 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 the RSP shall
be sent to:
TUCOWS Com Co
Registrant Affairs Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
CANADA
OR -
WebTwister
1795 N. Fry Rd. #250
Katy, TX 77449
USA
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. INCONSISTENCIES WITH CIRA.
In the event that this Agreement may be inconsistent with
any term, condition , policy or procedure of CIRA, the
term, condition, policy or procedure of CIRA shall prevail.
30. 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