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UK Domain Name Registration
Agreement
In order that a party
may hold a valid .co uk or .org uk domain name registration, TUCOWS,
requires that all registrants adhere to certain terms and
conditions. As an organisation or individual applying to register,
transfer or renew an .uk domain name via the agency of Net Pay
Holdings (DNSServe.com) 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 Net
Pay Holdings Limited (DNSServe.com) the Registration Service
Provider ("RSP"). NOMINET UK shall refer to the entity
granted the exclusive right to administer the registry for .uk
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 NOMINET UK 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 http://www.nic.uk/ref/drs.html.
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. NOMINET UKPOLICY. You
agree that your registration of thedomain name shall be subject to
suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any NOMINET
UK-adopted policy, or pursuant to any registrar or registry
procedure not inconsistent with an NOMINET UK-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 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. Any transfer of ownership in and to a domain name
registration shall be affected in accordance with NOMINET UK
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. 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
NOMINET UK, to the registry administrators, and to other third
parties as NOMINET UK 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 NOMINET UK 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 info@classichosting.com
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 Inc.
Registrant Affairs Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
OR -
Net Pay Holdings Limited
(DNSServe.com)
PO Box 91-240
Auckland
New Zealand
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 NOMINET UK. In the event
that this Agreement may be inconsistent with any term, condition ,
policy or procedure of NOMINET UK, the term, condition, policy or
procedure of NOMINET UK 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.
TERMS OF SERVICE AND
DOMAIN NAME POLICIES
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