EXHIBIT A
Form of 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 .tv domain name registration provided by us as
offered through Servelocity Ltd. ("Reseller"). 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 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 have selected, 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 statements in your Application are true, complete
and accurate. Failure to maintain accurate information will be considered
a material breach of this Agreement and will entitle us to delete your
domain name registration.
4. 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.
5. 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 will 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 and as 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://resellers.tucows.com/opensrs/legal. 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.
9. POLICY. You agree that your registration of the .tv domain name
shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any
ICANN or government adopted policy, or pursuant to any Registrar or
registry procedure not inconsistent with an ICANN 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. You acknowledge that you have reviewed the .tv General Terms
of Service which may be found at: http://www.tv/en-def-5066945b5fcc/en/policies/tos.shtml
and expressly agree to the terms outlined therein.
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 a 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). 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 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, affiliates and third
party beneficiaires 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.
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). 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
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 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
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 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 postal service. 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,
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 Reseller 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.
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. 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.
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.