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APPENDIX A
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 domain name registration provided by us as offered
through Kriter Internet Hizmetleri Ltd.Sti., the Registration
Service Provider ("Reseller"). This Agreement explains
our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to us for
the 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 agree to pay Reseller
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 Account Information and all
other statements put forth in your application are true, complete
and accurate. Both Tucows and the Registry reserve the right to
terminate your domain name registration if: (i) information provided
by you or your agent is false, inaccurate, incomplete, unreliable,
misleading or otherwise secretive; or (ii) you have failed to
maintain, update and keep your Account Information true, current,
complete, accurate and reliable. You acknowledge that a breach
of this Section 3 will constitute a material breach of our Agreement
which will entitle either us or the Registry to terminate this
agreement immediately upon such breach without any refund and
without notice to you.
4.
TERM. 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,
the term of this Registration Agreement will 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 either we or the Registry
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 further agree to be bound by the ICANN Uniform
Dispute Resolution Policy ("Dispute Policy") as presently
written and posted on http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm
and as such 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.icann.org/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.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. 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. POLICY. You agree that your registration of the domain name
shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant
to a Tucows, Registry, ICANN or government-adopted policy, or
pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent
with a Tucows, Registry, ICANN or government-adopted policy, (1)
to correct mistakes by us 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 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 any 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). 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.
13.
INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our contractors,
agents, employees, officers, directors and affiliates and VeriSign,
Inc., and its
directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates 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 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. This indemnification obligation
will survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement.
14.
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 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 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 acknowledge that registration or reservation
of your chosen domain name does not confer immunity from objection
to 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; and
(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
such that we can continue to
improve the products and services offered to you through your
Reseller.
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, 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
Reseller.
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 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 ICANN Agreement
or an ICANN/Registry Operator policy.
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 regular mail. 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
notification to us or to Reseller to lhutz@tucows.com or hostmaster@domaintescil.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 Reseller
shall be sent to:
TUCOWS Inc.
Registrant Affairs Office
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.
29.
FORCE MAJEURE. You acknowledge and agree that neither we nor the
Registry shall be responsible for any failures or delays in performing
our respective obligations hereunder arising from any cause beyond
our reasonable control, including but not limited to, acts of
God, acts of civil or military authority, fires, wars, riots,
earthquakes, storms, typhoons and floods.
30.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Controlling Language. In the event that you
are reading this agreement in a language other than the English
language, you
acknowledge and agree that the English language version hereof
shall prevail in case of inconsistency or contradiction in interpretation
or translation.
31.
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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