:: Domain Name Registration Agreement
.VC Registration Agreement
In order that a party may hold a valid
.vc
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 .vc domain
name via SupraLink you accordingly agree as follows:
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 .vc domain name registration provided by us
as offered through SupraLink Solutions Inc.
(“SupraLink”). 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 agree to pay
SupraLink the applicable service(s) fees. All fees payable hereunder
are non-refundable. As further consideration for the Services, you
agree to: (1) provide certain current, complete and accurate
information about you as required by the registration process and
(2) maintain and update this information as needed to keep it
current, complete and accurate. All such information shall be
referred to as account information ("Account Information"). By
submitting this Agreement, you represent that the Account
Information and all other statements put forth in your application
are true, complete and accurate. Both Tucows and the Registry
reserve the right to terminate your domain name registration if: (i)
information provided by you or your agent is false, inaccurate,
incomplete, unreliable, misleading or otherwise secretive; or (ii)
you have failed to maintain, update and keep your Account
Information true, current, complete, accurate and reliable. You
acknowledge that a breach of this Section 3 will constitute a
material breach of our agreement which will entitle either us or the
Registry to terminate this agreement immediately upon such breach
without any refund and without notice to you.
4. TERM. This Agreement 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 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.
6. MODIFICATIONS TO YOUR ACCOUNT. In order to change any of
your account information with us, you must use your Account
Identifier and Password that you selected when you opened your
account with us. You agree to safeguard your Account Identifier and
Password from any unauthorized use. In no event shall we be liable
for the unauthorized use or misuse of your Account Identifier or
Password.
7. DOMAIN NAME DISPUTE POLICY. If you reserved or registered
a domain name through us, or transferred a domain name to us from
another Registrar, you agree to be bound by the Dispute Policy that
is incorporated herein and made a part of this Agreement by
reference. The current version of the Dispute Policy may be found at
http://www.opensrs.org/legal/udrp.shtml. 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 .vc domain
name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer
pursuant to any Registrar, Registry or government adopted policy, or
pursuant to any Registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent
with Registrar, Registry 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. .
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 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.
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:
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Your name and postal address (or, if different, that of the
domain name holder);
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The domain name being registered;
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The name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if
available) telephone numbers of the administrative contact for the
domain name;
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The name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice and fax (if
available) telephone numbers of the billing contact for the domain
name.
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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 SupraLink.
19. DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree
and acknowledge that we will make domain name registration
information you provide available to SVG, 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 SVG and applicable laws.
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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.
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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 SupraLink.
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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.
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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 DOC or Registry
Operator policy.
21. 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.
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 Policies 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 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, 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
SupraLink
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 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.
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.
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