US Registration
AgreementSCHEDULE A
Form of Registration
Agreement1. 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 Cteck Ltd., "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 Dedicated-Domains. 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.pdf3.
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:
Cteck
Ltd.
Windsow House
Poulton-le-Fylde
FY6 7HZ
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.