EXHIBIT A
Form of Registration Agreement
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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 domain name registration
provided by us as offered through (“Reseller”). This
Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains
your obligations to us for the Services.
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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.
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FEES.
As consideration for the Services, you agree to pay
the Reseller the applicable service(s) fees. All fees
payable hereunder are non-refundable. As further consideration
for the Services, you agree to: (1) provide certain
current, complete and accurate information about you
as required by the registration process; and (2) maintain
and update this information as needed to keep it current,
complete and accurate. All such information shall be
referred to as account information ("Account Information").
By submitting this Agreement, you represent that the
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 violation of this Section 3 will
constitute a material breach of this agreement which
will entitle either us or the Registry to terminate
this agreement immediately without any refund and without
notice to you.
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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.
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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
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 Registry dispute policy (“Dispute Policy”) as
presently written and posted on http://www.icann.org
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.
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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.
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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.icann.org.
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with this
policy.
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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.
You acknowledge that neither we nor the Registry screen
or otherwise review your domain name application to
verify that you have the legal right to use a particular
word or term. You are strongly encouraged to perform
a trademark search with respect to the words and/or
phrases comprising your domain name prior to applying
for registration of the domain. You agree that you will
be solely liable in the event that your use of a domain
constitutes an infringement or other violation of a
third party’s rights.
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POLICY.
You agree that your registration of the domain name
shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer
pursuant to a Tucows, Registry, regulatory or government-adopted
policy, or pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure
not inconsistent with a Tucows, Registry, regulatory
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. You acknowledge and understand that by accepting
the terms and conditions of this agreement you shall
be bound by Registry policies and any pertinent rules
or policies that exist now or in the future and which
are posted on the Registry website at http://www.nic.cc/. You are responsible for monitoring
the Registry’s site on a regular basis. In the event
that you do not wish to be bound by a revision or modification
to any Registry policy, your sole remedy is to cancel
your domain name registration by following the appropriate
Registry policy regarding such cancellation.
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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.
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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.
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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, including but not limited to Verisign,
Inc. and eNic Corporation, 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.
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INDEMNITY.
You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our contractors,
agents, employees, officers, directors, affiliates and
third party beneficiaries, including but not limited
to Verisign, Inc. and eNic Corporation, 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. This indemnification obligation will survive the
termination or expiration of this Agreement.
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SCOPE
OF REGISTRATION. You will be entitled to exclusive
use of the domain name during the term of the registration.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, you shall not use, display,
exploit or register a domain name which action may constitute
illegal activity or be in contravention or violation
of a Tucows or Registry policy. You acknowledge that
a breach of this clause will constitute a material breach
of this agreement which will entitle either Tucows or
the Registry to terminate this agreement immediately
upon such breach without any refund. In addition, both
we and/or the Registry may, in our sole discretion,
refuse registration of your desired domain name within
thirty (30) calendar days from receipt of payment. Neither
Tucows nor the Registry shall be liable for any loss,
damage or other injury whatsoever resulting from any
refusal to register your desired domain name.
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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 determine
by us in our sole discretion) to the terms and conditions
in this Agreement, any such transfer will be null and
void.
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BREACH.
You agree that failure to abide by any provision of
this Agreement, any operating rule or policy or the
Dispute Policy, 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 fifteen (15) 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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
- Your
name and postal address (or, if different, that
of the domain name holder);
- The
domain name being registered;
- The
name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice
and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the
administrative contact for the domain name;
- The
name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice
and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the
billing contact for the domain name.
Any other information, which we request from you at
registration, is voluntary. Any voluntary information
we request is collected for the purpose of improving
the products and services offered to you through your
Reseller.
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DISCLOSURE
AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree and
acknowledge that either we and/or the Registry may make
directly available to third parties or publicly available,
some or all, of the Account Information for inspection
through our WHOIS service and for any other purposes
as may be required or permitted by applicable laws or
policies. You hereby irrevocably waive and release Tucows
and/or the Registry from any and all claims and causes
of action you may have arising from any disclosure,
use, or unauthorized access of your Account Information.
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REVOCATION.
Your wilful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information,
your wilful failure promptly to update information provided
to us, or any failure to respond to inquiries by us
addressed to the email address of the registrant, the
administrative, billing or technical contact appearing
in the “Whois” directory with respect to a domain name
concerning the accuracy of contact details associated
with the registration shall constitute a material breach
of this Agreement and be a basis for cancellation of
the domain name registration. Any information collected
by us concerning an identified or identifiable natural
person (“Personal Data”) will be used in connection
with the registration of your domain name(s) and for
the purposes of this Agreement and as required or permitted
by the ICANN Agreement or an ICANN/Registry Operator
policy.
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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.
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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.
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NON-AGENCY.
Nothing contained in this Agreement or the Dispute Policy
shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership,
or other form of joint enterprise between the parties.
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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.
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NOTICES.
Any notice, direction or other communication given under
this Agreement shall be in writing and given by sending
it via e-mail or via postal service. In the case of
e-mail, valid notice shall only have been deemed to
have been given when an electronic confirmation of delivery
has been obtained by the sender. In the case of e-mail,
notifications must be sent to us at lhutz@tucows.com,
or in the case of notification to you, to the e-mail
address provided by you in your WHOIS record. Any e-mail
communication shall be deemed to have been validly and
effectively given on the date of such communication,
if such date is a business day and such delivery was
made prior to 4:00 p.m. 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
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.
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ENTIRETY.
You agree that this Agreement, the rules and policies
published by us and the Dispute Policy are the complete
and exclusive agreement between you and us regarding
our Services. This Agreement and the Dispute Policy
supersede all prior agreements and understandings, whether
established by custom, practice, policy or precedent.
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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.
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INFANCY.
You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this
Agreement.
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FORCE
MAJEURE. You acknowledge and agree that neither
we nor the Registry shall be responsible for any failure
or delay 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.
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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.
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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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