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REGISTER
A .CA
REGISTRATION
AGREEMENT
In order that a party may hold a valid .ca domain name registration,
TUCOWS, requires that all registrants adhere to certain terms
and conditions. As an organization or individual applying to register,
transfer or renew an .ca domain name via the agency of [insert
RSPname] and/or TUCOWS you accordingly agree as follows:
1.AGREEMENT. In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement")
, "we", us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS Inc. and “Services” refers
to the domain name registration, transfer or renewal services
provided by us as offered through Register Today dot Com, the
Registration Service Provider (“RSP”). CIRA shall refer to the
entity granted the exclusive right to administer the registry
for .ca domain name registrations.
2.SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. You represent that, to the
best of the your knowledge and belief, neither the registration
of the domain name nor the manner in which it is directly or indirectly
used infringes the legal rights of a third party and that the
domain name is not being registered for any unlawful purpose.
3.FEES. As consideration for the Services you have selected,
you agree to pay to us, or your respective RSP who remits payment
to us on your behalf, the applicable 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").
You, by completing and submitting this Agreement represent that
the statements in your application are true.
4.TERM. You agree that this Agreement will remain in full
force during the term of your domain name registration as selected,
recorded, and paid for upon registration of the domain name. Should
you choose to renew the term of your domain name registration,
then the term of this Agreement will be extended accordingly.
Should you transfer your domain name or should the domain name
otherwise be transferred to another Registrar, the terms and conditions
of this contract shall cease and shall be replaced by the contractual
terms in force between domain name registrants and the new Registrar.
5.MODIFICATIONS TO AGREEMENT. You agree, during the period
of this Agreement, that we may: (1) revise the terms and conditions
of this Agreement; and (2) change the services provided under
this Agreement. Any such revision or change will be binding and
effective immediately on posting of the revised Agreement or change
to the service(s) on our web site, or on notification to you by
e-mail or regular mail as per the Notices section of this agreement.
You agree to review our web site, including the Agreement, periodically
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 regular mail
as per the Notices section of this agreement. Notice of your termination
will be effective on receipt and processing by us. You agree that,
by continuing to use the Services following notice of any revision
to this Agreement or change in service(s), you shall abide by
any such revisions or changes. You further agree to abide by the
CIRA dispute resolution policy (“Dispute Policy”) as amended from
time to time. You agree that, by maintaining the reservation or
registration of your domain name after modifications to the Dispute
Policy become effective, you have agreed to these modifications.
You acknowledge that if you do not agree to any such 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. Please safeguard your account identifier and
password from any unauthorized use. In no event will 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
which is incorporated herein and made a part of this Agreement
by reference. The current version of the Dispute Policy may be
found at the CIRA website. 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 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 contained in the Dispute Policy.
9.CIRA POLICY. You agree that your registration of the
domain name shall be subject to suspension, cancellation, or transfer
pursuant to any CIRA-adopted policy, or pursuant to any registrar
or registry procedure not inconsistent with an CIRA-adopted policy,
(1) to correct mistakes by a registrar or the 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
registrant 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 thedomain name. You also represent
that you have provided notice of the terms and conditions in this
Agreement to the third party and that the third party agrees to
the terms of Disclosure and Use of Registration Information (sections
18 and 19 of this Agreement).
11.ANNOUNCEMENTS. We and the RSP 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). We and our
contractors shall not 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.
13.INDEMNITY. You agree to release, indemnify, and hold
us, our contractors, agents, employees,officers, directors and
affiliates harmless from all liabilities, claims and expenses,
including attorney's fees, from claims by third parties, including
but not limited to the RSP and CIRA 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 with your computer, 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 CIRA 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
may be considered by us to be a breach of your Agreement and may
result in deactivation of your domain name.
14.TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. Any transfer of ownership in
and to a domain name registration shall be affected in accordance
with CIRA policies and procedures.
15.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 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 agree that, by registration or reservation
of your chosen domain name, such registration or reservation 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:
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;
iv.The name, postal address, e-mail address, and voice and fax
(if available) telephone numbers of the billing contact for the
domain name.
v.The Internet Protocol number of the primary name server and
secondary name server(s) for each domain name registration and
the corresponding names of those name servers.
Any voluntary information we request is collected such that we
can continue to improve the products and services offered to you
through your RSP.
19.DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You
agree and acknowledge that we will make domain name registration
information you provide available to CIRA, to the registry administrators,
and to other third parties as CIRA and applicable laws may require
or permit. 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 CIRA and
the applicable laws. You hereby consent to any and all such disclosures
and use of, and guidelines, limits and restrictions on disclosure
or use of, information provided by you in connection with the
registration of a domain name (including any updates to such information),
whether during or after the term of your registration of the domain
name. You hereby irrevocably waive any and all claims and causes
of action you may have arising from such disclosure or use of
your domain name registration information by us. You may access
your domain name registration information in our possession to
review, modify or update such information, by accessing our domain
manager service, or similar service, made available by us through
your RSP. We will not process data about any identified or identifiable
natural person that we obtain from you in a way incompatible with
the purposes and other limitations which we describe in this Agreement.
We will take reasonable precautions to protect the information
we obtain from you from our loss, misuse, unauthorized accessor
disclosure, alteration or destruction of that information
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 ICANN Agreement
or an ICANN/Registry Operator policy.
21.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 within thirty (30) calendar
days from receipt of your payment for such 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.
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 Policy 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 regular mail. 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 notification to us or to the RSP to lhutz@tucows.com
or [Insert E-mail Address for RSP] or, in the case of notice to
you, at 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 the RSP shall be sent to:

TUCOWS Com Co
Registrant Affairs Office
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 3M1
OR -
[Insert RSP address]

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 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.
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.INCONSISTENCIES WITH CIRA. In the event that this Agreement
may be inconsistent with any term, condition , policy or procedure
of CIRA, the term, condition, policy or procedure of CIRA shall
prevail.
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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