gTLD Agreement
(.com, .net, .org)
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your"
refer to each customer, "we", us" and "our" refer to Tucows.com Inc. and "Services"
refers to the domain name registration provided by us as offered through
Digital Image Delights, the Registration Service Provider ("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 the registration of the SLD 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
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"). You, by completing and submitting this Agreement represent
that the statements in your application are true.
4. TERM. You agree that the Registration Agreement will remain in full force
during the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration. Should you choose to
renew or otherwise lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration, then the term
of this Registration Agreement will be extended accordingly. This Agreement will remain
in full force during the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration 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 will be extended accordingly. Should you transfer your domain
name or should the domain name otherwise be transferred due to another Registrar,
the terms and conditions of this contract shall cease and shall be replaced by the
contractual terms in force for the purpose of registering domain names then in force
between SLD holders 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 ICANN Uniform 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. Please contact your RSP,
Digital Image Delights Support for modifications to your domain
name registration. Digital Image Delights will make every reasonable effort to verify
the modification requests are true and accurate.
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
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm.
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. For any dispute, you
agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of The Province of Ontario.
9. ICANN POLICY. You agree that your registration of the SLD name shall be subject
to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any ICANN-adopted policy, or pursuant
to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with an ICANN-adopted policy,
(1) to correct mistakes by Registrar or the Registry in registering the name or
(2) for the resolution of disputes concerning the SLD name.
10. AGENCY. Should you intend to license use of a domain name to a third party you
shall nonetheless be the SLD 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 SLD. You shall accept liability for harm caused
by wrongful use of the SLD, unless you promptly disclose the identity of the licensee to
the party providing you reasonable evidence of actionable harm. 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 states do not allow
the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such
states, 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 and affiliates harmless from all liabilities,
claims and expenses, including without limitation Network Solutions, Inc., and the
directors, officers, employees and agents of each of them, 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 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 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. The person named as administrative contact at the time
the controlling 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) 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.
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 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 owner contact for the domain name.
Any other information which we request from you at registration is voluntary. 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 ICANN,
to the registry administrators, and to other third parties as ICANN 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 ICANN
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 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 access or disclosure, alteration or destruction of that
information.
20. REVOCATION. Your willful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information,
your wilful 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 SLD 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
Digital Image Delights Support 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 Inc. Registrant Affairs Office 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6K 3M1 -
OR - Digital Image Delights 739 Desert Wind Road Mayfield, Idaho 83716.
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.
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