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Registration
Agreement
1. AGREEMENT.
In this Registration Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer to each
customer, "we", us" and "our" refer to TUCOWS.com Inc. and "Services" refers to
the domain name registration provided by us as offered through Hostahoy Web
Services, the Registration Service Provider ("RSP"). 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 the registration of the SLD 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 Hostahoy Web
Services, your respective RSP, who remits payment to us on your behalf, the
applicable service(s) fees. All fees payable hereunder are
non-refundable.
All registration fees are
in US dollars. If, for any reason, you fail to pay any initial fees or renewal
fees when due, we have the right to immediately cancel all SLD names for which
payment was not received, without further notice to you. We reserve the right
to adjust our registration and renewal fees prospectively upon fifteen (15)
calendar days prior notice. All domain name sales are final. There are no
refunds, returns, allowances, or credits on any domain names purchased by you.
Furthermore, you agree that you will not chargeback any amounts previously
charged to your credit card by us. If you chargeback a credit card charge for a
payment initiated by you, you agree that we may recover the amount of the
chargeback, as well as the chargeback fee by any means we deem necessary,
including but not limited to re-charging your credit card for the chargeback.
Furthermore, if you initiate a chargeback of a previous credit card charge,
access to your account may be denied until payment is made and your account may
be terminated, both at the sole discretion of us.
4. TERM. You
agree that the Registration Agreement will remain in full force during the
length of the term of your Domain Name Registration. Should you choose to renew
or otherwise lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration, then the term
of this Registration Agreement will be extended accordingly. This Agreement
will remain in full force during the length of the term of your Domain Name
Registration 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 will be
extended accordingly. Should you transfer your domain name or should the domain
name otherwise be transferred due to another Registrar, the terms and
conditions of this contract shall cease and shall be replaced by the
contractual terms in force for the purpose of registering domain names then in
force between SLD holders and the new Registrar.
TRANSFER PROCESS. In order to utilize the
Hostahoy Web Services domain name transfer service, the domain owner, or
initiating party, must have completed a transfer application. Once a transfer
request is completed, a confirmation email will be sent to the owner on file on
the current domain contact record. A domain name transfer shall only take place
when the domain owner confirms the intentions of the transfer as set forth in
the form sent by the Registrar. If, for any reason, the domain owner fails to
confirm any information contained in the form, the domain name transfer shall
not occur, and the party initiating the transfer shall not be entitled to a
return of the fee associated with the attempted transfer.
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 ICANN Uniform 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 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 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. For any dispute, you agree to
submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of The Province of
Ontario.
9. ICANN
POLICY. You agree that your registration of the SLD name shall be subject to
suspension, cancellation, or transfer pursuant to any ICANN-adopted policy, or
pursuant to any registrar or registry procedure not inconsistent with an
ICANN-adopted policy, (1) to correct mistakes by Registrar or the Registry in
registering the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes concerning the SLD
name.
10. AGENCY.
Should you intend to license use of a domain name to a third party you shall
nonetheless be the SLD 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
SLD. You shall accept liability for harm caused by wrongful use of the SLD,
unless you promptly disclose the identity of the licensee to the party
providing you reasonable evidence of actionable harm. 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 states do not allow the exclusion or
limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such
states, 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 and affiliates harmless from all
liabilities, claims and expenses, including without limitation Network
Solutions, Inc., and the directors, officers, employees and agents of each of
them, 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 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 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. The person named as administrative contact at the time the
controlling user name and password are secured shall be the owner of 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.
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 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.
Any other
information which we request from you at registration is voluntary. Any
voluntary information we request is collected such that we can continue to
improve the products and services offered to you through your
RSP.
Your
willful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information, your willful failure
promptly to update information provided to us, or any failure to respond for
over fifteen (15) calendar days to our inquiries addressed to the e-mail
address of the administrative, billing or technical contact then appearing in
the WHOIS directory with respect to an SLD name concerning the accuracy of
contact details associated with any registration(s) or the registration of any
SLD name(s) registered by or through you or your account, shall constitute a
breach of this Agreement. You shall be solely responsible for the
confidentiality and use of your username and password. You agree that in the
event your username and/or password is transmitted to a third party through no
action on the part of us, neither us nor any of our officers, employees,
agents, affiliates or subsidiaries can or will have any responsibility or
liability to you or to any other person whose claim may arise through you for
any claims with respect to the handling, mishandling or loss of your username
and/or password. You shall also be the only authorized user of the Services
under this Agreement. You understand that you shall be solely responsible for
all transactions through the Services using your username and password. You
further understand and agree that, as a condition of using the Services, you
shall immediately notify us if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your
username and/or password.
19.
DISCLOSURE AND USE OF REGISTRATION INFORMATION. You agree and acknowledge that
we will make domain name registration information you provide available to
ICANN, to the registry administrators, and to other third parties as ICANN 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 ICANN 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 access or 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 your failure
to respond for over fifteen calendar days to inquiries by us concerning the
accuracy of contact details associated with the your registration shall
constitute a material breach of this Agreement and be a basis for cancellation
of the SLD registration.
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
Inc.
Registrant
Affairs Office
96 Mowat
Avenue
Toronto,
Ontario
M6K
3M1
- OR
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Hostahoy Web
Services 3800
S. Tamiami Trail
Suite
26A
Sarasota,
FL 34239
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.
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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Uniform Domain
Name Dispute Resolution Policy
Policy Adopted:
August 26, 1999 Implementation Documents Approved: October 24,
1999 |
Notes:
1. This policy is now in
effect. See www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-schedule.htm
for the implementation schedule.
2. This policy has been
adopted by all accredited domain-name registrars for domain names ending in
.com, .net, and .org. It has also been adopted by certain managers of
country-code top-level domains (e.g., .nu, .tv, .ws).
3. The policy is between
the registrar (or other registration authority in the case of a country-code
top-level domain) and its customer (the domain-name holder or registrant).
Thus, the policy uses "we" and "our"
to refer to the registrar and it uses "you" and "your" to refer to the
domain-name holder.
Uniform Domain
Name Dispute Resolution Policy
(As Approved by ICANN on
October 24, 1999)
1.
Purpose. This Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy (the "Policy") has been adopted by the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), is incorporated by reference into
your Registration Agreement, and sets forth the terms and conditions in
connection with a dispute between you and any party other than us (the
registrar) over the registration and use of an Internet domain name registered
by you. Proceedings under
Paragraph 4
of this Policy will be conducted according to the Rules for Uniform Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules of Procedure"), which are available at
www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-rules-24oct99.htm,
and the selected administrative-dispute-resolution service provider's
supplemental rules.
2. Your
Representations. By applying to register a
domain name, or by asking us to maintain or renew a domain name registration,
you hereby represent and warrant to us that (a) the statements that you made in
your Registration Agreement are complete and accurate; (b) to your knowledge,
the registration of the domain name will not infringe upon or otherwise violate
the rights of any third party; (c) you are not registering the domain name for
an unlawful purpose; and (d) you will not knowingly use the domain name in
violation of any applicable laws or regulations. It is your responsibility to
determine whether your domain name registration infringes or violates someone
else's rights.
3.
Cancellations, Transfers, and Changes. We
will cancel, transfer or otherwise make changes to domain name registrations
under the following circumstances:
a. subject
to the provisions of
Paragraph 8,
our receipt of written or appropriate electronic instructions from you or your
authorized agent to take such action;
b. our
receipt of an order from a court or arbitral tribunal, in each case of
competent jurisdiction, requiring such action; and/or
c. our
receipt of a decision of an Administrative Panel requiring such action in any
administrative proceeding to which you were a party and which was conducted
under this Policy or a later version of this Policy adopted by ICANN. (See
Paragraph
4(i) and (k)
below.)
We may
also cancel, transfer or otherwise make changes to a domain name registration
in accordance with the terms of your Registration Agreement or other legal
requirements.
4.
Mandatory Administrative Proceeding.
This Paragraph sets forth the
type of disputes for which you are required to submit to a mandatory
administrative proceeding. These proceedings will be conducted before one of
the administrative-dispute-resolution service providers listed at
www.icann.org/udrp/approved-providers.htm
(each, a "Provider").
a.
Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit
to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a
"complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules
of Procedure, that
(i)
your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service
mark in which the complainant has rights; and
(ii)
you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name;
and
(iii)
your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad
faith.
In the
administrative proceeding, the complainant must prove that each of these three
elements are present.
b.
Evidence of Registration and Use in Bad Faith.
For the purposes of
Paragraph
4(a)(iii), the following circumstances, in particular but without
limitation, if found by the Panel to be present, shall be evidence of the
registration and use of a domain name in bad faith:
(i)
circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the
domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise
transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner
of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for
valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs
directly related to the domain name; or
(ii)
you have registered the domain name in order to prevent the owner of the
trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain
name, provided that you have engaged in a pattern of such conduct;
or
(iii)
you have registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the
business of a competitor; or
(iv)
by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for
commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by
creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the
source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location
or of a product or service on your web site or
location.
c. How
to Demonstrate Your Rights to and Legitimate Interests in the Domain Name in
Responding to a Complaint. When you receive a
complaint, you should refer to
Paragraph 5 of
the Rules of Procedure in determining how your response should be prepared. Any
of the following circumstances, in particular but without limitation, if found
by the Panel to be proved based on its evaluation of all evidence presented,
shall demonstrate your rights or legitimate interests to the domain name for
purposes of Paragraph
4(a)(ii):
(i)
before any notice to you of the dispute, your use of, or demonstrable
preparations to use, the domain name or a name corresponding to the domain name
in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services; or
(ii)
you (as an individual, business, or other organization) have been commonly
known by the domain name, even if you have acquired no trademark or service
mark rights; or
(iii)
you are making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name,
without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to
tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue.
d.
Selection of Provider. The complainant shall
select the Provider from among those approved by ICANN by submitting the
complaint to that Provider. The selected Provider will administer the
proceeding, except in cases of consolidation as described in
Paragraph
4(f).
e.
Initiation of Proceeding and Process and Appointment of Administrative
Panel. The Rules of Procedure state the process
for initiating and conducting a proceeding and for appointing the panel that
will decide the dispute (the "Administrative Panel").
f.
Consolidation. In the event of multiple disputes
between you and a complainant, either you or the complainant may petition to
consolidate the disputes before a single Administrative Panel. This petition
shall be made to the first Administrative Panel appointed to hear a pending
dispute between the parties. This Administrative Panel may consolidate before
it any or all such disputes in its sole discretion, provided that the disputes
being consolidated are governed by this Policy or a later version of this
Policy adopted by ICANN.
g.
Fees. All fees charged by a Provider in
connection with any dispute before an Administrative Panel pursuant to this
Policy shall be paid by the complainant, except in cases where you elect to
expand the Administrative Panel from one to three panelists as provided in
Paragraph
5(b)(iv) of the Rules of Procedure, in which case all fees will be split
evenly by you and the complainant.
h. Our
Involvement in Administrative Proceedings. We do
not, and will not, participate in the administration or conduct of any
proceeding before an Administrative Panel. In addition, we will not be liable
as a result of any decisions rendered by the Administrative Panel.
i.
Remedies. The remedies available to a complainant
pursuant to any proceeding before an Administrative Panel shall be limited to
requiring the cancellation of your domain name or the transfer of your domain
name registration to the complainant.
j.
Notification and Publication. The Provider shall
notify us of any decision made by an Administrative Panel with respect to a
domain name you have registered with us. All decisions under this Policy will
be published in full over the Internet, except when an Administrative Panel
determines in an exceptional case to redact portions of its
decision.
k.
Availability of Court Proceedings. The mandatory
administrative proceeding requirements set forth in
Paragraph 4
shall not prevent either you or the complainant from submitting the dispute to
a court of competent jurisdiction for independent resolution before such
mandatory administrative proceeding is commenced or after such proceeding is
concluded. If an Administrative Panel decides that your domain name
registration should be canceled or transferred, we will wait ten (10) business
days (as observed in the location of our principal office) after we are
informed by the applicable Provider of the Administrative Panel's decision
before implementing that decision. We will then implement the decision unless
we have received from you during that ten (10) business day period official
documentation (such as a copy of a complaint, file-stamped by the clerk of the
court) that you have commenced a lawsuit against the complainant in a
jurisdiction to which the complainant has submitted under
Paragraph
3(b)(xiii) of the Rules of Procedure. (In general, that jurisdiction is
either the location of our principal office or of your address as shown in our
Whois database. See
Paragraphs
1 and 3(b)(xiii)
of the Rules of Procedure for details.) If we receive such documentation within
the ten (10) business day period, we will not implement the Administrative
Panel's decision, and we will take no further action, until we receive (i)
evidence satisfactory to us of a resolution between the parties; (ii) evidence
satisfactory to us that your lawsuit has been dismissed or withdrawn; or (iii)
a copy of an order from such court dismissing your lawsuit or ordering that you
do not have the right to continue to use your domain
name.
5. All
Other Disputes and Litigation. All other
disputes between you and any party other than us regarding your domain name
registration that are not brought pursuant to the mandatory administrative
proceeding provisions of
Paragraph 4
shall be resolved between you and such other party through any court,
arbitration or other proceeding that may be available.
6. Our
Involvement in Disputes. We will not
participate in any way in any dispute between you and any party other than us
regarding the registration and use of your domain name. You shall not name us
as a party or otherwise include us in any such proceeding. In the event that we
are named as a party in any such proceeding, we reserve the right to raise any
and all defenses deemed appropriate, and to take any other action necessary to
defend ourselves.
7.
Maintaining the Status Quo. We will not
cancel, transfer, activate, deactivate, or otherwise change the status of any
domain name registration under this Policy except as provided in
Paragraph 3
above.
8.
Transfers During a Dispute.
a.
Transfers of a Domain Name to a New Holder. You
may not transfer your domain name registration to another holder (i) during a
pending administrative proceeding brought pursuant to
Paragraph 4
or for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as observed in the location of
our principal place of business) after such proceeding is concluded; or (ii)
during a pending court proceeding or arbitration commenced regarding your
domain name unless the party to whom the domain name registration is being
transferred agrees, in writing, to be bound by the decision of the court or
arbitrator. We reserve the right to cancel any transfer of a domain name
registration to another holder that is made in violation of this
subparagraph.
b.
Changing Registrars. You may not transfer your
domain name registration to another registrar during a pending administrative
proceeding brought pursuant to
Paragraph 4
or for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as observed in the location of
our principal place of business) after such proceeding is concluded. You may
transfer administration of your domain name registration to another registrar
during a pending court action or arbitration, provided that the domain name you
have registered with us shall continue to be subject to the proceedings
commenced against you in accordance with the terms of this Policy. In the event
that you transfer a domain name registration to us during the pendency of a
court action or arbitration, such dispute shall remain subject to the domain
name dispute policy of the registrar from which the domain name registration
was transferred.
9.
Policy Modifications. We reserve the right
to modify this Policy at any time with the permission of ICANN. We will post
our revised Policy at <URL> at least thirty (30) calendar days before it
becomes effective. Unless this Policy has already been invoked by the
submission of a complaint to a Provider, in which event the version of the
Policy in effect at the time it was invoked will apply to you until the dispute
is over, all such changes will be binding upon you with respect to any domain
name registration dispute, whether the dispute arose before, on or after the
effective date of our change. In the event that you object to a change in this
Policy, your sole remedy is to cancel your domain name registration with us,
provided that you will not be entitled to a refund of any fees you paid to us.
The revised Policy will apply to you until you cancel your domain name
registration.
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