:: Domain Name Registration Agreement
.TK Registration Agreement
In order that a party may hold a valid
.tk
domain name registration, SupraLink, requires that all registrants
adhere to certain terms and conditions. As an organization or
individual applying to register, transfer or renew an .tk domain
name via SupraLink you accordingly agree as follows:
1. INTRODUCTION. In this Service Agreement ("Agreement"),
"you" and "your" refer to each customer ("Customer") and "we", "us"
and "our" refer to Taloha, Inc. and the .TK Registry. This Agreement
explains our obligations to you, and your obligations to us in
relation to your use of our services. By selecting our service(s)
you have agreed to establish an account with us for such services.
When you use your account or permit someone else to use your account
to purchase or otherwise acquire access to additional service(s) or
to modify or cancel your service(s) (even if we were not notified of
such authorization), this Agreement covers any such service or
actions. Any acceptance of your application(s) for our services and
the performance of our services will occur at our office in San
Francisco, California, USA, the location of our principal place of
business.
2. FEES, PAYMENT AND TERM OF SERVICE. As consideration for
the services you have selected, you agree to pay us the applicable
service(s) fees set forth on our Web site at http://www.dot.tk/vc001100.html
at the time of your selection. All fees are due immediately, payable
only via online credit card transaction or other online payment
methods, and are non-refundable. We may take all remedies available
to collect fees owed. All prices and fees are subject to change
without notice. Payment is due at the time of registration; names
will be activated immediately as soon as the payment is done online.
You agree that you will pay for any charge backs or bank processing
fees charged to us as the result of any action you take or may have
taken with respect to your use of our services. You understand and
agree that if you are not current in any payments to us for these
charges or for any other reasons, you will be denied registration
and other services rights until such balances are cleared, and that
you risk having any .TK registrations or other services cancelled.
Unless otherwise specified by you during registration, each service
is for a two-year initial term and renewable in perpetuity
thereafter for successive one-year terms, but for no more than 9
years consecutively. Any renewal of your services with us is subject
to our then current terms and conditions and payment of all
applicable service fees at the time of renewal and in the case of
domain name re-registration, our acceptance of your domain name
registration. Registration renewal fees are due 30 days before the
end of the registration period. Any names not renewed will be
removed from the Dot TK database and made available for others to
register.
You agree that you may not transfer your domain name registration to
an alternate domain name registrar during the first sixty (60) days
from the effective date of your initial domain name registration
with us.
3. TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS. You may register
any domain name that contains as few as one and as many as 63
characters (not including .TK). Names may not begin or end with a
dash, and upper case and lower case are treated as upper case only.
Besides the - (dash) character, only alphanumeric characters a-z,
0-9 are accepted. Domain names may not contain spaces or any other
non-alphanumeric characters (such as punctuation) or any non-ASCII
characters.
Any person or organization located anywhere in the world may
register any number of .TK domain names as long as the information
provided by the customer is accurate, valid and verifiable. Your .TK
domain name will only work if you have your own name server support.
You may choose to subscribe to our DNS service at http://www.dot.tk,
which, for a small additional fee, will provide name server support.
FREE DOMAINS. If you use our FREEDOMAIN.TK registration as part of
your registration of a .TK domain name, you agree to abide by the
"Terms and Conditions for FREEDOMAIN.TK", as posted on our Web site
at http://www.dot.tk/vc001100.html as well as any resulting
limitations.
4. ACCURATE INFORMATION. As further consideration for our
service(s), you agree to: (1) provide certain current, complete and
accurate information about you as required by the application
process; and (2) maintain and update this information as needed to
keep it current, complete and accurate. We rely on this information
to send you important information and notices regarding your account
and our services. You understand and agree that we may cancel your
registration(s) if your registration information contains false or
misleading information or conceals or omits any information we would
consider material to our decision to approve your Registration
Agreement or if use of the domain name(s) violates these Terms and
Conditions, as determined solely by us.
Our privacy statement, located on our Web site and incorporated
herein by reference sets forth your and our rights and
responsibilities with regard to your personal information. You agree
that we, in our sole discretion, may modify our privacy statement at
any time as we deem fit. We will post such revised statement on our
Web site at least thirty (30) calendar days before it becomes
effective. You agree that, by using our services after modifications
to the privacy statement become effective, you will be deemed to
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. We will not process the personal data that
we collect from you in a way incompatible with the purposes and
other limitations described in our privacy statement and we will
take reasonable precautions to protect your personal data from loss,
misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or
destruction. You represent and warrant that you have provided notice
to, and obtained consent from, any third party individuals whose
personal data you supply to us as part of our services with regard
to: (i) the purposes for which such third party's personal data has
been collected, (ii) the intended recipients or categories of
recipients of the third party's personal data which parts of the
third party's data are obligatory and which parts, if any, are
voluntary; and (iii) how the third party can access and, if
necessary, rectify the data held about them. You further agree to
provide such notice and obtain such consent with regard to any third
party personal data you supply to us in the future.
We are not responsible for any consequences resulting from your
failure to provide notice or receive consent from such individuals
nor for your providing outdated, incomplete or inaccurate
information. Even if you intend to license the use of our domain
name registration services to a third party, you will remain our
customer and you are, and will continue to be, responsible for
complying with all terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Subject to the requirements of our privacy statement, in order for
us to be able to comply with current or future rules and policies
for the domain name system, you hereby grant to us the right to
disclose to third parties who follow certain disclosure procedures
as required by us the following mandatory information that you are
required to provide when registering or reserving, if a reservation
service becomes available, a domain name: (i) the domain name(s)
registered by you; (ii) your name and postal address; (iii) the
name(s), postal address(es), e-mail address(es), voice telephone
number and where available the fax number(s) of the technical and
administrative contacts for your domain name(s); (iv) the Internet
protocol numbers of the primary nameserver and secondary
nameserver(s) for such domain name(s); (v) the corresponding names
of those nameservers; (vi) the original creation date of the
registration; and (vii) the expiration date of the registration. You
understand and agree that we may be required to make this
information available to identified third parties who agree not to
use it to (a) allow, enable or otherwise support the transmission of
mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations via e-mail
(spam) or (b) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes
that apply to our systems to register domain names.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. Except as otherwise provided
in this Agreement, you agree that we, in our sole discretion, during
the term of this Agreement, that we may: (1) revise the terms and
conditions of this Agreement; and/or (2) change part of the services
provided under this Agreement at any time. Any such revision or
change will be binding and effective immediately upon posting of the
revised Agreement or change to the service(s) on our Web sites, or
upon notification to you by e-mail or regular mail. You agree to
periodically review our Web sites, including the current version of
this Agreement available on our Web sites, to be aware of any such
revisions. If you do not agree with any revision to the Agreement,
you may terminate this Agreement at any time by providing us with
notice by e-mail or mail addressed as follows, Attention: Taloha
Inc., 584 Castro Street Box 260, San Francisco, California 94114,
USA. Notice of your termination will be effective on receipt and
processing by us. Any fees paid by you if you terminate your
Agreement with us are nonrefundable, but you will not incur any
additional fees. By continuing to use our services after any
revision to this Agreement or change in service(s), you agree to
abide by and be bound by any such revisions or changes. We are not
bound by nor should you rely on any representation by (i) any agent,
representative or employee of any third party that you may use to
apply for our services; or in (ii) information posted on our Web
site of a general informational nature. No employee, contractor,
agent or representative is authorized to alter or amend the terms
and conditions of this Agreement.
6. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In order to change any of
your account information with us, you must use the Account Name
(your email address) and the Password that you received when you
opened your account with us through our online application process.
Please safeguard your Account Name and Password or security
authentication option from any unauthorized use. In no event will we
be liable for the unauthorized use or misuse of your Account Name or
Password.
7. TRADEMARK POLICY. We will accept any name for registration
and activation, with the following proviso: You agree at the time of
registration that, to the best of your knowledge, the name(s) you
are registering does not violate trademark law or other applicable
law in your own jurisdiction or in the jurisdiction of Tokelau or
Taloha, Inc.
8. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY. If a dispute arises between
you and any other party with respect to trademarks or other issues
related to intellectual property and your registration or use of a
.TK domain, you agree to be bound by the our Dispute Resolution
Policy at http://www.dot.tk/vc001100.html, in effect at the time.
9. 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
after modifications to the dispute policy become effective, you
shall be deemed to 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.
10. 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.
11. ACCEPTABLE USE. Use of a .TK domain name for any unlawful
purpose is not permitted and could cause revocation of your domain
name without notice. We are not bound to maintain a name
registration in active status if any part of your registration
agreement or these terms and conditions of use are violated.
"Unlawful Use" will be determined based on the laws of the
jurisdictions of Tokelau or Taloha, Inc..
The sending of unsolicited bulk E-mail ("spam") constitutes theft of
service. You agree not to use your .TK domain name(s) for this
purpose. Such abuse includes spamming, flooding, or otherwise
abusing free search engine services. You understand and agree that
we reserve the right to revoke without refund any .TK name which, in
our sole judgment, has been used for any unlawful purposes,
including but not limited to child pornography, child entrapment or
abuse, advocacy of hatred, bigotry or violence towards persons or
groups on the basis of their religion, race, ethnicity, sexual
orientation or other immutable characteristics, theft of E-mail
service, or as a source of unsolicited bulk E-mail or as an address
to use for replying to unsolicited bulk E-mail, or in violation of
our policies with respect to spamming or otherwise abusing free
search engine services (see above).
By registering a .TK domain name you are acknowledging that you
understand and agree to be bound by this policy.
12. AGENTS. You agree that, if your agent (e.g., an Internet
Service Provider, employee, etc.) purchased our service(s) on your
behalf, you are nonetheless bound as a principal by all terms and
conditions herein, including the dispute policy. Your continued use
of our services shall ratify any unauthorized actions of your agent.
By acting on your behalf, your agent certifies that he or she is
authorized to apply for our services on your behalf, that he or she
is authorized to bind you to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement and that he or she has apprised you of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement. In addition, you are responsible for
any errors made by your agent. We will not refund fees paid by you
or your agent on your behalf for any reason, including, but not
limited to, in the event that your agent fails to comply with the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, your agent incorrectly
provides information in the application process or if your agent
changes or otherwise modifies your domain name record incorrectly.
13. NOTICES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. You authorize us to notify you
as our customer of information that we deem is or may be of
potential interest or importance to you. Notices and announcements
may include technical changes to the system, price or policy
changes, planned outages for online customer management systems,
commercial e-mails and other notices describing changes, upgrades,
new products and services or other information pertaining to
Internet security or to enhance your identity on the Internet and/or
other relevant matters. If you do not wish to receive bulk e-mail
solicitation notices or promotional announcements you may modify
your customer profile to prevent such activities at http://www.dot.tk
under My Dot TK.
14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. You agree that our entire
liability, and your exclusive remedy, with respect to any of our
service(s) provided under this Agreement and/or for any breach of
this Agreement is solely limited to the amount you have paid for
such service(s). Taloha, Inc. and its contractors shall not be
liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or
consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use any
of our 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 shall be limited to the fullest extent
permitted by law. We hereby expressly 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 Name
or Password; (5) loss or liability resulting from errors, omissions,
or misstatements in any and all information or service(s) provided
under this Agreement; (6) loss or liability relating to the deletion
of or failure to store e-mail messages; (7) loss or liability
resulting from the development or interruption of your Web site; (8)
loss or liability that you may incur in connection with our
processing of your application for our services, our processing of
any authorized modification to your domain name record or your
agents failure to pay any fees, including the initial registration
fee or re-registration fee; or (9) loss or liability as a result of
the application of our dispute policy.
15. INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us,
in our capacities as the registry and a registrar, and our
contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors, shareholders,
affiliates and assigns harmless from any and all liabilities,
claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys'
fees and expenses, of third parties relating to or arising under
this Agreement, the services we provided hereunder or your use of
our services, including without limitation infringement or dilution
by you, or someone else using our service(s) from your computer, of
any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person
or entity, or a violation of any of our operating rules or policies
relating to the service(s) provided. When we are threatened with
suit or sued 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 material breach of
this Agreement.
16. BREACH. You agree that your failure to abide by any
provision of this Agreement, any of our operating rules or policies,
the dispute policy, or your willful provision of inaccurate or
unreliable information as part of the application process, or your
failure to update your information to keep it current, complete or
accurate, or your failure to respond for over fifteen (15) calendar
days to inquiries from us concerning the accuracy of the contact
details associated with your domain name registration may be
considered by us to be a material breach of this Agreement and that
we may provide a written notice, describing the breach, to you. If
within seven (7) 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
and/or terminate the other service(s) we provide to you without
further notice. We will not refund any fees paid by you if we
terminate your Agreement due to your breach. 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 agree that, by registration of your
chosen domain name, such registration does not confer immunity from
objection to either the registration or use of your domain name.
18. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. You agree and warrant
that: (i) the information that you or your agent on your behalf
provide to us during the application process to register your domain
name or to apply for other service(s) is, to the best of your
knowledge and belief, accurate and complete, and that any future
changes to this information will be provided to us in a timely
manner according to the modification procedures in place at that
time, (ii) to the best of your knowledge and belief neither the
registration of your domain name nor the manner in which you intend
to use such domain name will directly or indirectly infringe the
legal rights of a third party, (iii) you have all requisite power
and authority to execute this Agreement and to perform your
obligations hereunder, (iv) you have selected the necessary security
option(s) for your domain name registration record, and (v) you are
of legal age to enter into this Agreement. You agree that your use
of our service(s) is solely at your own risk. You agree that all of
our services are provided on an "as is," and "as available" basis.
19. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. 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 OUR SERVICE(S) 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). WE MAKE NO WARRANTY REGARDING ANY GOODS
OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH ANY OF OUR SERVICES OR ANY
TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH SUCH SERVICES. TO THE EXTENT
JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SOME
OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
DOT TK DEPENDS UPON A COMPUTER SYSTEM THAT IS RESPONSIVE TO THE
DEMANDS OF THE DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION PROCESS AND THAT PROVIDES
TIMELY INFORMATION TO OUR CUSTOMER SUPPORT TEAM. OCCASIONALLY, DOT
TK'S COMPUTER SYSTEM MAY BE SUBJECTED TO HIGH VOLUMES OF INCOMING
DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION REQUESTS AND/OR ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES
WHICH MAY RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION OF DOT TK'S SYSTEM
PROCESSING AND RESPONSE TIME. REGARDLESS OF THE REASON, IN THOSE
INSTANCES, WHEN THERE IS SYSTEM PERFORMANCE REDUCTION AS A RESULT OF
AN EXTREMELY HIGH VOLUME OF INCOMING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES, DOT TK
RESERVES THE RIGHT, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION, TO SCREEN OR BLOCK
ELECTRONIC MESSAGES ORIGINATING FROM THE IDENTIFIED SOURCES OF THE
HIGH VOLUME TRAFFIC. DOT TK SHALL SELECTIVELY RESTORE SERVICE AFTER
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE RETURNS TO NORMAL LIMITS, PROVIDED THAT SUCH
RESTORATION DOES NOT RESULT IN AN ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE SYSTEM. DOT
TK FURTHER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO PERMANENTLY SCREEN OR BLOCK
REPEATED SOURCES OF HIGH VOLUMES OF ELECTRONIC TRAFFIC.
20. REVOCATION. You agree that we may terminate your
contractual right to use our service(s) if the information that you
are obligated to provide to register your domain name or register
for other Dot TK service(s), or that you subsequently modify,
contains false or misleading information, or conceals or omits any
information we would likely consider material to our decision to
register your domain name or to continue to provide you domain name
registration services. Furthermore, you agree that we may suspend,
cancel or transfer your domain name registration services in order
to: (i) correct mistakes made by us or the .TK registry in
registering your chosen domain name, or (ii) to resolve a dispute
under our dispute policy. We will not refund any fees paid by you if
we terminate your services.
You agree that we may, at our sole discretion, revoke, suspend,
transfer or otherwise modify your domain name registration upon
seven (7) calendar days prior notice, or at such time as we receive
a properly authenticated order from a court of competent
jurisdiction, or arbitration award requiring the revocation,
suspension, transfer or modification of the domain name
registration. Notwithstanding any other provisions in these terms
and conditions, in the case of nonpayment, charge back or other
direct violation of these terms and conditions, you agree that we
may, at our sole discretion, revoke, suspend, transfer or otherwise
modify your domain name registration without notice.
21. RIGHT OF REFUSAL. We, in our sole discretion, reserve the
right to refuse to register your chosen domain name or register you
for our other service(s), or to delete your domain name within the
first thirty (30) calendar days from receipt of your payment for
such services. In the event we do not register your domain name or
register you for our other service(s), or we delete your domain name
or our other service(s) within such thirty (30) calendar day period,
we agree to refund any applicable fee(s) you have paid. You agree
that we shall not be liable to you for loss or damages that may
result from our refusal to register, the deletion of your domain
name or our refusal to register you for our other service(s).
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. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement, the rules and
policies published by us, the dispute policy and the privacy
statement are the complete and exclusive agreement between you and
us regarding our services. This Agreement, our rules and policies,
the dispute policy and the privacy statement supersede all prior
agreements and understandings, whether established by custom,
practice, policy or precedent.
24. TRANSFER AND ASSIGNMENT. You may transfer your domain
name registration to a third party of your choice, subject to the
fees, procedures and conditions found at: http://www.dot.tk/vc001100.html,
which are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.
Your rights under this Agreement are not assignable and any attempt
by your creditors to obtain an interest in your rights under this
Agreement, whether by attachment, levy, garnishment or otherwise,
shall render this Agreement voidable at our option.
You may also transfer your services, including registration and
renewal services, to any other Certified Registrar of ours 60 days
or more after you have registered your .TK domain name. Procedures
and limitations for transferring to another Registrar are available
at http://www.dot.tk.
25. GOVERNING LAW. You agree that this Agreement and any
disputes hereunder shall be governed in all respects by and
construed in accordance with the United States law excluding its
conflict of laws rules. Except for disputes concerning or arising
from your use of a domain name registered with us, you and we each
submit to exclusive subject matter jurisdiction, personal
jurisdiction and venue of the State of California. Only for disputes
concerning or arising from your use of a domain name registered with
us, you agree to submit to subject matter jurisdiction, personal
jurisdiction and venue of the United States District Court for
California and the courts of your domicile.
26. AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND. By applying for our service(s)
through our online application process or by using the service(s)
provided by us under this Agreement, you acknowledge that you have
read and agree to be bound by all terms and conditions of this
Agreement and any pertinent rules or policies that are or may be
published by us.
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