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SCHEDULE A
Form of Registration Agreement
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement
("Agreement") "Registrant", "you" and "your" refer to
the registrant of each domain name registration, "we",
"us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc., "Registry Operator"
refers to NeuStar Inc., "DOC" refers to the United
States of America Department of Commerce, and "Services"
refers to the domain name registration provided by us as
offered through I.T. Solutions Group, Inc (DBA)
Nicgrab.com ("RSP"). This Agreement explains our
obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us
for various Services.
2. .us NEXUS REQUIREMENT. Only those individuals
or organizations that have a substantive lawful
connection in the United States are permitted to
register for .usTLD domain names. Registrants in the .usTLD
must satisfy the nexus requirement ("Nexus" or "Nexus
Requirements") set out at
http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf
3. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You certify and
represent that:
- You have and shall continue to have, a bona fide
presence in the United States on the basis of real and
substantial lawful contacts with, or lawful activities
in, the United States as defined in Section 2
hereinabove.
- The listed name servers are located within the
United States;
- 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, up-to-date and complete;
- 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;
- That the domain name is not being registered for
nor shall it at any time whatsoever be used for any
unlawful purpose whatsoever;
- You have the authority to enter into this
Registration Agreement.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 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 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.
7. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. You shall
maintain your own records appropriate to document and
prove the initial registration date of the domain name.
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.
8. 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 and the usDRP, as defined
below, that is incorporated herein and made a part of
this Agreement by reference. Please take the time to
familiarize yourself with these policies.
9. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You acknowledge having
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:
- The Nexus Dispute Policy ("Dispute
Policy), available at
http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf
The Dispute Policy will provide interested parties
with an opportunity to challenge a registration not
complying with the Nexus Requirements.
- The usTLD Dispute Resolution Policy ("usDRP").
The usDRP is intended to provide interested parties
with an opportunity to challenge a registration based
on alleged trademark infringement. In addition to the
foregoing, you agree that, for the adjudication of
disputes concerning or arising from use of the
Registered Name, you shall submit, without prejudice
to other potentially applicable jurisdictions, to the
jurisdiction of the courts (i) of your domicile,
- where Tucows is located, and
- the United States.
10. POLICY. You agree that your registration
of the domain name shall be subject to suspension,
cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any Tucows,
Registry Operator, the DOC or government-adopted policy,
or pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure not
inconsistent with a DOC 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. The Registry
Operator's policies can be found at
http://www.neustar.us/policies/
11. 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. You acknowledge and agree that the domain
name has not been registered solely for the purposes of
selling, trading or leasing for compensation and will be
used for a business or commercial purpose.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify,
and hold us, the Registry Operator, the DOC, our
respective 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.
15. 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 to be 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 may 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.
16. BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by
any provision of this Agreement including but not
limited to any failure to abide by the Nexus
Requirements, 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.
17. 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.
18. 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. If you license use of the
domain name, you nonetheless agree that you shall accept
any and all liability for any harm caused by said
licensed use and suffered by Tucows, the Registry
Operator and/or the DOC. 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.
19. 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 full name, postal address, e-mail
address and telephone number and fax number (if
available) (or, if different, that of the domain name
holder);
- The domain name being registered;
- The name, postal address, e-mail address,
and telephone number and fax number (if available)
telephone numbers of the administrative contact, the
technical contact and the billing contact for the
domain name;
- The IP addresses and names of the primary
nameserver and any secondary nameserver(s) for the
domain name;
- In addition to the foregoing, you will be
required to provide additional Nexus Information. The
Nexus Information requirements are set out at
http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf
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.
20. DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION
INFORMATION. You agree and acknowledge that we will
make domain name registration information you provide
available to the DOC, to the Registry Operator, 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
the DOC 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.
21. 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 DOC or Registry Operator policy.
22. 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. 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 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
a dispute.
23. 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. 24.
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.
25. 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.
26. 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
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
27. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement, the
rules and policies published by Tucows, the DOC 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.
28. 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.
29. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age
to enter into this Agreement.
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.
Last Updated: Thursday, 28-Jun-2001 12:19:34 EDT By:
Ken Joy
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