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.name
Registration Agreement
1.
AGREEMENT.
In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement")
"you" and "your" refer to the registrant
of each domain name registration and/or recipient of
email forwarding services, "we", "us"
and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc., "Registry
Operator" refers to The Global Name Registry Ltd.
and "Services" refers to the domain name registration
and email forwarding provided by us as offered through
e-globalfocus Sdn. Bhd. ("RSP"). This Agreement
explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations
to us for various Services.
2.
.name RESTRICTIONS. Registrations in the .name top-level
domain must constitute an individual's "Personal
Name". For purposes of the .name restrictions (the
"Restrictions"), a "Personal Name"
is a person's legal name, or a name by which the person
is commonly known. A "name by which a person is
commonly known" includes, without limitation, a
pseudonym used by an author or painter, or a stage name
used by a singer or actor.
3.
.name REPRESENTATIONS. As a .name domain name Registrant,
you hereby represent that:
(i) the registered domain name or second level domain
("SLD") email address is your Personal Name.
(ii) 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, current and complete,
(iii) 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;
(iv) that the domain name is not being registered for
nor shall it at any time whatsoever be used for any
unlawful purpose whatsoever;
(v) the registration satisfies the Eligibility Requirements
found at
http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appf-03jul01.htm;
and
(vi) you have the authority to enter into this Registration
Agreement.
4. EMAIL FORWARDING SERVICES.
(i) The Services for which you have registered may,
at your option, include email forwarding. To the extent
you opt to use email forwarding, you are obliged to
do so in accordance with all applicable legislation
and are responsible for all use of email forwarding,
including the content of messages sent through email
forwarding.
(ii) You undertake to familiarize yourself with the
content of and to comply with the generally accepted
rules for Internet and email usage. This includes, but
is not limited to the Acceptable Use Policy, available
at
http://www.theglobalname.org/ as well as the following
restrictions. Without prejudice to the foregoing, you
undertake not to use email forwarding:
(a) to encourage, allow or participate in any form of
illegal or unsuitable activity, including but not restricted
to the exchange of threatening, obscene or offensive
messages, spreading computer viruses, breach of copyright
and/or proprietary rights or publishing defamatory material;
(b) to gain illegal access to systems or networks by
unauthorized access to or use of the data in systems
or networks, including all attempts at guessing passwords,
checking or testing the vulnerability of a system or
network or breaching the security or access control
without the sufficient approval of the owner of the
system or network;
(c) to interrupt data traffic to other users, servers
or networks, including, but not restricted to, mail
bombing, flooding, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks,
wilful attempts to overload another system or other
forms of harassment; or
(d) for spamming, which includes, but is not restricted
to, the mass mailing of unsolicited email, junk mail,
the use of distribution lists (mailing lists) which
include persons who have not specifically given their
consent to be placed on such distribution list. Users
are not permitted to provide false names or in any other
way to pose as somebody else when using email forwarding.
(iii) Registry Operator reserves the right to implement
additional anti-spam measures, to block spam or mail
from systems with a history of abuse from entering Registry
Operator's email forwarding. However, due to the nature
of such systems, which actively block messages, Registry
Operator shall make public any decision to implement
such systems a reasonable time in advance, so as to
allow you or us to give feedback on the decision.
(iv) You understand and agree that Registry Operator
may delete material that does not conform to clause
(c) above or that in some other way constitutes a misuse
of email forwarding. You further understand and agree
that Registry Operator is at liberty to block your access
to email forwarding if you use email forwarding in a
way that contravenes this Agreement. You will be given
prior warning of discontinuation of the email forwarding
unless it would damage the reputation of Registry Operator
or jeopardize the security of Registry Operator or others
to do so. Registry Operator reserves the right to immediately
discontinue email forwarding without notice if the technical
stability of email forwarding is threatened in any way,
or if you are in breach of this Agreement. On discontinuing
email forwarding, Registry Operator is not obliged to
store any contents or to forward unsent email to you
or a third party.
(v) You understand and agree that to the extent either
we and/or Registry Operator is required by law to disclose
certain information or material in connection with your
email forwarding, either we and/or Registry Operator
will do so in accordance with such requirement and without
notice to you.
5. FEES. As consideration for the
Services you have selected, you agree to pay e-globalfocus
Sdn. Bhd (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.
6. 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.
7. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT.
You agree that we may in our sole discretion: (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
http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml 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. We will not refund any fees paid by you
if you terminate your agreement with us.
8. 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. You will not be able
to transfer your domain name during the first sixty
(60) days following registration of the domain name
with us. Beginning on the sixty-first (61st) day following
the registration, the policies set forth at:
http://www.opensrs.org/dotname_info.shtml shall
apply.
9. 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.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml. Please
take the time to familiarize yourself with this policy.
In addition, you hereby acknowledge that you have 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.
(i) the Eligibility Requirements (the "Eligibility
Requirements"), available at
http://www.icann.org.tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appl-03jul01.htm;
(ii) the Eligibility Requirements Dispute Resolution
Policy (the "ERDRP"), available at
http://www.icann.org.tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appm-03jul01.htm;
and
(iii) the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
(the "UDRP"), available at
http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/name/registry-agmt-appm-03jul01.htm.
The Eligibility Requirements dictate that Personal Name
domain names and Personal Name SLD email addresses will
be granted on a first-come, first-served basis, except
for registrations granted as a result of a dispute resolution
proceeding or during the landrush procedures in connection
with the opening of the Registry TLD. The following
categories of Personal Name Registrations may be registered:
(i) the Personal Name of an individual; (ii) the Personal
Name of a fictional character, if you have trademark
or service make rights in that character's Personal
Name; (iii) in addition to a Personal Name registration,
you may add numeric characters to the beginning or the
end of the Personal Name so as to differentiate it from
other Personal Names.
The ERDRP applies to challenges to (i) registered domain
names and SLD email address registrations within .name
on the grounds that a Registrant does not meet the Eligibility
Requirements, and (ii) to Defensive Registrations (as
defined by the Registry Operator) within .name.
The UDRP sets forth the terms and conditions in connection
with a dispute between a Registrant and party other
than Global Name Registry ("Registry Operator")
or Registrar over the registration and use of an Internet
domain name registered by a Registrant.
10. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY MODIFICATIONS.
You agree that we, in our sole discretion, may modify
our dispute policy. We will post any such revised policy
on our Web site at least thirty (30) calendar days before
it becomes effective. You agree that, by maintaining
the reservation or registration of your domain name
or SLD email address 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
modification, you may terminate this Agreement. We will
not refund any fees paid by you if you terminate your
Agreement with us.
11. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTES. You agree
that, if your use of our domain name registration services
is challenged by a third party, you will be subject
to the provisions specified in our 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 set forth below in this
agreement. If we are notified that a complaint has been
filed with a judicial or administrative body regarding
your use of our domain name registration services, you
agree not to make any changes to your domain name record
without our prior approval. We may not allow you to
make changes to such domain name record until (i) we
are directed to do so by the judicial or administrative
body, or (ii) we receive notification by you and the
other party contesting your registration and use of
our domain name registration services that the dispute
has been settled. Furthermore, you agree that if you
are subject to litigation regarding your registration
and use of our domain name registration services, we
may deposit control of your domain name record into
the Registry of the judicial body by supplying a party
with a Registrar certificate from us.
12. POLICY. You agree that your
registration of the domain name shall be subject to
suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any
Tucows, Registry Operator, 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
You agree that neither we nor the Registry Operator
will have any liability of any kind for any loss or
liability resulting from (i) the processing of registration
requests prior to live SRS launch, including, without
limitation, your ability or inability to obtain a .name
domain name or SLD email address registration using
these processes; or (ii) any dispute over any .name
domain name, SLD email address, Defensive Registration
or NameWatch Registration (as defined by the Registry
Operator), including the decision of any dispute resolution
proceeding related to any of the foregoing.
16. INDEMNITY. You agree to release,
indemnify, and hold us, the Registry Operator, our 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 out of or relating to
the domain name registered 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 both us and the
Registry Operator harmless pursuant to the terms and
conditions contained in the Dispute Policies. 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.
17. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. The
person named as Registrant at the time the 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. You acknowledge that you will not be entitled
to change registrars during the first sixty (60) days
following the registration of your domain name.
18. 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 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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 full name, postal address, e-mail address and
voice telephone number and fax number (if available)
(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 telephone number and fax number (if available)
telephone numbers of the administrative contact, the
technical contact and the billing contact for the domain
name;
(iv) The IP addresses and names of the primary nameserver
and any secondary nameserver(s) for the domain name.
You acknowledge and agree that the foregoing registration
data will be publicly available and accessible on the
Whois directory as required by ICANN and may be sold
in bulk in accordance with ICANN policy. You further
understand and agree that the foregoing registration
data may be transferred internationally.
22. 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 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.
23. 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 your
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.
24. 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, to protect
the integrity and stability of the Registry, to comply
with any applicable laws, government rules or requirements,
requests of law enforcement, in compliance with the
dispute resolution process, or to avoid any liability,
civil or criminal, on our part and/or that of the Registry
Operator, as well as our affiliates, subsidiaries, officers,
directors and employees. We and the Registry Operator
reserve the right to suspend a domain name during the
resolution of a dispute.
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 a 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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 domain@e-globalhosting.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:
e-globalfocus Sdn Bhd
11.1, 11th Floor, Menara Lien Hoe
8, Jalan Persiaran Tropicana,
Tropicana Golf & Country Resort,
47410 Petaling Jaya, Selangor D.E. Malaysia
Tel : 603-7805 7911 Fax : 603-7805 7922
and
in the case of notification to you shall be to the address
specified in the "Administrative Contact"
in your WHOIS record
30. ENTIRETY. You agree that this
Agreement, the rules and policies published by Tucows,
ICANN 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.
31. 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.
32. INFANCY. You attest that you
are of legal age to enter into this Agreement.
33. 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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