EXHIBIT A
.de Registration Agreement
1. AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement"), "Registrant", "you" and "your" refers
to the registrant of each domain name registration, "we", "us" and "our" refers
to Tucows Inc., "Registry" refers to DENIC eG, and "Services" refers
to the domain name registration provided by us as offered through
Webalix.com, the registration service provider
("Reseller"). This Agreement explains our obligations
to you, and explains your obligations to us for the Services.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that:
(i) you have reviewed and have accepted the Registry's Terms and
Conditions and the Registry's Guidelines and have provided your
Reseller with written confirmation of same;
(ii) either you, or the person designated as the administrative
contact for the domain name, shall be resident or shall have a
branch in Germany;
(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 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 the
Reseller the applicable service(s) fees. All fees payable hereunder
are non-refundable even if you elect to transfer your domain name
to another registrar. 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, payment shall be rendered by you in a timely
fashion and the term of this Registration Agreement shall be extended
accordingly. This clause shall supersede the procedure outlined
in the Registry Terms and Conditions such that the domain name
will be registered for the finite term you selected at the time
of registration or renewal. 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 either we or the
Registry may: (1) revise the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
and (2) change the services provided under this Agreement. You
agree to be bound by any such revision or change which shall be
effective immediately upon posting on our web site or upon notification
to you by e-mail or your country's postal service pursuant to the
Notices section of this Agreement. You agree to review this Agreement
as posted on our website periodically to maintain an awareness
of any and all such revisions. You agree that, by continuing the
use of Services following any revision to this Agreement or change
in service(s), you shall be bound by any such revisions and changes.
You acknowledge that if you do not agree to any such modifications,
you may request that your domain name be deleted from the domain
name database.
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 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 by the Registry
or any court of law. 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 specified by the
Registry or any court of law.
8. POLICY. You agree that your registration of the domain name
shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant
to a Tucows, Registry or government-adopted policy, or pursuant
to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with a
Tucows, Registry or government-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes
by us or the Registry in registering the name, or (2) for the resolution
of disputes concerning the domain name.
9. 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 any third party
licensee and that the third party agrees to the terms hereof.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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. 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.
13. 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) along with the applicable transfer fee. If
the Transferee fails to be bound in a reasonable fashion (as determined
by us in our sole discretion) to the terms and conditions in this
Agreement, any such transfer will be null and void.
14. BREACH. You agree that failure to abide by any provision of
this Agreement, any operating rule or 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.
15. NO GUARANTY. You acknowledge that registration or reservation
of your chosen domain name does not confer immunity from objection
to the registration, reservation or use of the domain name.
16. 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.
17. 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; and
(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 improving the products and services offered to you through
your Reseller.
18. DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree
and acknowledge that we will make domain name registration information
you provide available 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 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 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.
19. 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 a Registry policy.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. NON-AGENCY. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed
as creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise
between the parties.
23. 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.
24. NOTICES. Any notice, direction or other communication given
under this Agreement shall be in writing and given by sending it
via e-mail or via postal service. In the case of e-mail, valid
notice shall only have been deemed to be given when an electronic
confirmation of delivery has been obtained by the sender. In the
case of e-mail, notifications must be sent to us at lhutz@tucows.com,
or in the case of notification to you, to the e-mail address provided
by you in your WHOIS record. Any e-mail communication shall be
deemed to have been validly and effectively given on the date of
such communication, if such date is a business day and such delivery
was made prior to 4:00 p.m. E.S.T., 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 five (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
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.
25. ENTIRETY. You agree that this Agreement, the rules and policies
published by us are the complete and exclusive agreement between
you and us regarding our Services. This Agreement supersedes all
prior agreements and understandings, whether established by custom,
practice, policy or precedent.
26. 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.
27. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to enter into
this Agreement.
28. FORCE MAJEURE. You acknowledge and agree that neither we nor
the Registry shall be responsible for any failures or delays in
performing our respective obligations hereunder arising from any
cause beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited
to, acts of God, acts of civil or military authority, fires, wars,
riots, earthquakes, storms, typhoons and floods.
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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