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T
THIS AGREEMENT HAS A PROVISION FOR
ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
This Registration Agreement ("Agreement")
sets forth the terms and conditions of your use
of domain name registration and related services
("Services"). In this Agreement "you" and "your"
refer to you and the registrant listed in the
WHOIS contact information for the domain name.
"We", "us" and "our" refer to the registrars,
any one of which will be the registrar for your
domain name and all of which share common
ownership, common terms and conditions, and a
shared Services infrastructure. To determine
which registrar your domain name is registered
with, perform a WHOIS lookup at
http://www.uwhois.com. You obtain the
Services through your primary service provider,
with whom we have a wholesale relationship (your
"Primary Service Provider"). Your relationship
with your Primary Service Provider may be
governed by additional terms, as you and your
Primary Service Provider may agree. "We," "us"
and "our" does not include your Primary Service
Provider, except when specifically mentioned or
unless your Primary Service Provider is one of
us (i.e., if your Primary Service Provider is
also one of the registrars)).
- YOUR AGREEMENT: By using the Services,
you agree to all terms and conditions of
this Agreement, the UDRP (defined below) and
any rules, policies, or agreements published
in association with specific Services and/or
which may be adopted or enforced by the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers ("ICANN"), any registry, or
governments.
- CHANGES TO THIS AGREEMENT: This
Agreement may change over time, either
through amendments by us, changes to ICANN
policy or applicable law which may or may
not be reflected in the text of this
Agreement, or otherwise. Before any material
changes to this Agreement become binding on
you (other than changes resulting from a
change in ICANN policy or applicable law),
we will notify you of such changes by, for
example, sending email to you at your email
address of record. If, as a result of such a
change, you no longer agree with the terms
of this Agreement, your exclusive remedies
are (a) to transfer your domain name
registration services to another registrar,
or (b) to cancel your domain name
registration services with us. Your
continued use of the Services following
notification of a change in this Agreement
indicates your consent to the changes.
Unless otherwise specified by us, any such
change binds you: (1) 30 days after we
notify you of the change, or (2) immediately
if such change is a result of a new or
amended ICANN policy or applicable law.
- YOUR ACCOUNT: You must create an account
to use the Services ("Account"). Your
Account is typically managed and/or provided
by your Primary Service Provider. You are
solely responsible for maintaining,
securing, updating, and keeping strictly
confidential all login IDs and passwords,
and for all access to and use of your
Account by you or any third party.
- ACCOUNT CONTACT INFORMATION AND
DOMAIN NAME WHOIS INFORMATION:
- You must provide certain
current, complete and accurate
information about you with respect
to your Account information and with
respect to the WHOIS information for
your domain name(s). You must
maintain and update this information
as needed to keep it current,
complete and accurate. You must
submit the following with respect to
you, the administrative, technical,
and billing contacts for your domain
name registration(s) and other
Services: name, postal address,
e-mail address, voice telephone
number, and where available, fax
number. The type of information you
are required to provide may change
and you must provide such
information and keep your Account
information current. Not providing
requested information may prevent
you from obtaining all Services.
- You may provide information
regarding the name-servers assigned
to your domain name(s) and, if we
are providing name-server services
to you, the DNS settings for the
domain name. If you do not provide
complete name-server information, or
if you purchase "Name Only"
Services, we may supply this
information (and point your domain
name to a website of our choosing)
until such time as you elect to
supply the name-server information
or until such time as you elect to
upgrade from "Name Only" Services.
- OBLIGATIONS RELATING TO THE ACCOUNT
AND WHOIS CONTACT INFORMATION:
- If, in obtaining Services, you
provide information about or on
behalf of a third party, you
represent and warrant that you have
(a) provided notice to that third
party of the disclosure and use of
that party's information as set
forth in this Agreement, and (b)
obtained the third party's express
written consent to the disclosure
and use of that party's information
as set forth in this Agreement.
- You represent and warrant that
the statements in your application
are true and that no Services are
being procured for any unlawful
purpose, including but not limited
to the infringement of any
intellectual property right, the
unauthorized transfer to yourself or
any other party of any domain name
or Services, or the violation of any
laws, rules, or regulations
(the"Illegal Uses"). Providing
inaccurate information, failing to
immediately update information or
engaging in any Illegal Uses will
constitute an incurable material
breach of this Agreement. Your
failure to respond for over ten (10)
calendar days to inquiries by us
concerning the accuracy of Account
and WHOIS contact information shall
constitute an incurable material
breach of this Agreement.
- You are responsible for
regularly monitoring email sent to
the email address in your Account.
You may lose your rights to the
domain name(s) or your right to
receive the Services if you do not
respond appropriately and timely to
an email sent in conjunction
therewith.
- ACCESSING YOUR ACCOUNT:
- In order to change any of your
Account or domain name WHOIS
information, you must access your
Account with your Primary Service
Provider, or your Account with us.
It is your duty to safeguard your
Account login identifier and
password from any unauthorized use.
Any person in possession of your
Account login identifier and
password will have both the ability
and your authorization to modify
your Account and domain name
information, initiate transfers of
your domain name(s) to other
registrars, initiate registrant
changes to your domain names which
may terminate your rights to use
such domain name(s), update DNS
changes to your domain name(s) which
may result in changes to the content
associated with your domain name(s)
and take other actions which may
affect or terminate your rights and
access to your domain name(s) and/or
the Services.
- We will take reasonable
precautions to protect the
information we obtain from you from
loss, misuse, unauthorized access or
disclosure, alteration or
destruction of that information and
such reasonable precautions include
procedures for releasing Account
access information to parties who
claim to have lost Account access
information. If we take reasonable
precautions in relation thereto, IN
NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE IF SUCH
REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS DO NOT
PREVENT THE UNAUTHORIZED USE OR
MISUSE OF YOUR ACCOUNT IDENTIFIER OR
PASSWORD AND, EVEN IF WE FAIL TO
TAKE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS, OUR
LIABILITY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
SHALL BE LIMITED BY THE LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY PROVISION FOUND IN
PARAGRAPH 13 BELOW IN THIS
AGREEMENT.
- If you contact us alleging that
a third party has unauthorized
access to your Account or domain
names, we may charge you
administrative fees, currently set
at $50 (US dollars) per hour, for
our time spent in relation to the
matter, regardless of whether or not
we return control over the Account
and/or domain name(s) to you. You
will indemnify us for any reasonable
attorneys’ fees and costs we may
incur in relation to the matter,
even if those fees and costs accrue
as a result of defending an action,
or responding to a threat of an
action, initiated by You or a third
party.
- SHARING OF WHOIS INFORMATION:
- We will make available the
domain name registration information
you provide or that we otherwise
maintain to the following parties:
ICANN, any ICANN-authorized escrow
service, the registry
administrator(s), and to other third
parties as ICANN and applicable laws
may require or permit (including
through web-based and other on-line
WHOIS lookup systems), whether
during or after the term of your
domain name registration services of
the domain name. You irrevocably
waive any and all claims and causes
of action you may have arising from
such disclosure or use of such
information. We may make publicly
available, or directly available to
third parties, some, or all, of the
information you provide, for
purposes of inspection (such as
through our WHOIS service) or for
targeted marketing and other
purposes as required or permitted by
applicable laws, including by way of
bulk WHOIS data access provided to
third parties who enter into a bulk
WHOIS data access agreement with us.
Please
click here if you would like
your WHOIS information made
available for bulk access. We
reserve the right to discontinue
providing bulk WHOIS data access to
third parties.
- ICANN may establish or modify
the guidelines, limits and/or
requirements that relate to the
amount and type of information that
we may or must make available to the
public or to private entities, and
the manner in which such information
is made available. Information
regarding ICANN's guidelines and
requirements regarding WHOIS can be
found at
http://www.icann.org/registrars/wmrp.htm,
http://www.icann.org/registrars/wdrp.htm,
and elsewhere on the ICANN website
at
http://www.icann.org/.
- OUR SERVICES:
- DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION.
- We are accredited registrars
with ICANN for generic Top Level
Domain Names ("gTLDs") (such as
.com, .net, .org, etc.). ICANN
oversees registrations and other
aspects of the gTLDs. We also are
registrars for a variety of country
code Top Level Domains ("ccTLDs")
(such as .co.uk, .de, etc.). For a
partial list of registry
administrators and for more
information on gTLDs, see
http://www.icann.org/tlds/.
Domain name registrations are not
effective until the registry
administrator puts them into effect.
Domain name registrations are only
for limited terms which end on the
expiration date. For domain names
which are created as a new
registration out of the pool of
available domain names, the term
begins on the date the domain name
registration is acknowledged by the
applicable registry. For domain name
registrations which were not
returned to the pool of available
domain names, the term begins on the
date the previous registrant's
domain name registration was
acknowledged by the applicable
registry.
- We and your Primary Service
Provider are not liable or
responsible in any way for any
errors, omissions or any other
actions by the registry
administrator arising out of or
related to a request to register,
renew, modify the settings for, or
transfer of a domain name
registration. You acknowledge that
domain name registration is a
service, domain name registrations
do not exist independently from
services provided pursuant to this
or a similar registration agreement
with a registrar, domain name
registration services do not create
a property interest and you have no
such property interest in any domain
name(s) which you may register with
us.
- AFTER MARKET DOMAIN NAMES:
- We offer for sale domain names
that are registered to third parties
(also known as aftermarket domain
names) in a variety of top level
domain names ("TLDs") ("After Market
Domain Name(s)"). All After Market
Domain Name registrations are
offered on a first come, first
served basis. If you are the first
to complete an After Market Domain
Name registration application for a
particular domain name, including
payment of the purchase price we
designate, we will initiate a
transfer of the relevant After
Market Domain Name to your Account.
At the time of transfer of the After
Market Domain Name into your
Account, we will add one year to the
existing registration period. Any
subsequent renewals of the After
Market Domain Name will be charged
at the then-current renewal fee.
Once you submit your order for an
After Market Domain Name, you have
entered into a valid, binding and
enforceable contract to pay the
designated purchase price for the
After Market Domain Name. Because we
are selling After Market Domain
Names initially registered to third
parties, we have no control and make
no representations regarding the
accuracy or legality of domain names
advertised, the accuracy or legality
of any domain name listing, or the
right and the ability of the third
party seller to transfer the After
Market Domain Name or complete the
transaction. We do not control
whether or not third party sellers
will complete a transaction. We
reserve the right to reject or
cancel your After Market Domain Name
registration for any reason
including, but not limited to, any
pricing errors. In the event your
After Market Domain Name
registration is rejected or
cancelled by us, for any reason, we
will refund in full the amount of
the purchase price for the After
Market Domain Name as your sole
remedy.
- Once the After Market Domain
Name is transferred into your
Account, such After Market Domain
Name may not be transferred away
from us to another registrar during
the first 60 days following the
transfer, during which time the
After Market Domain Name may be
placed on transfer lock. All of your
obligations under this Agreement
which apply to the registration or
renewal of domain name(s) created by
you apply to any After Market Domain
Name(s) acquired by you, including
but not limited to prohibition
against any Illegal Uses.
- NOT INCLUDED IN THE SERVICES:
- We are not responsible to
determine whether the domain name(s)
you select, or the use you or others
make of the domain name(s), or other
use of the Services, infringes legal
rights of others. It is your
responsibility to know whether or
not the domain name(s) you select or
use or allow others to use infringe
legal rights of others.
- We might be ordered by a court
or arbitrator to cancel, modify, or
transfer your domain name; it is
your responsibility to list accurate
contact information in association
with your Account and to communicate
with litigants, potential litigants,
and governmental authorities. It is
not our responsibility to forward
court orders or other communications
to you. Our policy is to comply with
court orders from courts of
competent jurisdiction as well as
UDRP Panel decisions. If you contact
us informing us that you are
contesting a court order from a
court of competent jurisdiction, we
may, but are not obligated to, place
a transfer lock on the domain name
pending the outcome of the dispute.
If you contact us informing us that
you are contesting an adverse UDRP
Panel decision, your time limits and
procedures to do so are subject to
the requirements set forth in the
UDRP. We will not delay
implementation of a UDRP Panel
decision based solely on your
informing us that you intend to
contest the decision.
- USE OF FREE SERVICES:
- In consideration for providing
additional optional Services for
which we do not charge an additional
fee, including, but not limited to,
free trials, URL forwarding, email
forwarding, free parking page, free
website hosting, free email
services, or other free services
which we may introduce from time to
time ("Free Services"), we may
display advertising in conjunction
therewith through the use of pop-up
or pop-under browser windows, banner
advertisements, audio or video
streams, appendices to emails, or
any other advertising means, and we
may aggregate for our own use,
related usage data by means of
cookies and other similar means. We
may discontinue any Free Services at
any time with or without providing
you prior notice.
- From time to time we may provide
you with free or low-cost domain
name(s) registration services
("Promotional Name(s)"). If we do
so, the services for the Promotional
Name(s) will be placed in the same
Account as your other domain name(s)
and you will be listed as the
registrant, though we may point the
Promotional Name to IP address(es)
of our choosing. If you want to
assume control over the services
provided to the Promotional Name,
including the right to transfer or
push the Promotional Name service to
other registrars or other Accounts
or the ability to control the DNS
settings for the Promotional Name,
you must pay the promotional
registration fee or renewal fee, if
any, and the terms of this Agreement
will apply to such Promotional
Name(s). If you do not want the
Promotional Name services, you may
request that you be removed as the
registrant of such Promotional Names
and we may be listed as the domain
name registrant or we may delete
such domain names or make them
available to others. For any domain
name services, including these
Promotional Names, for which you are
listed as registrant but for which
you do not pay the registration or
renewal fee, we may assign
name-servers to the domain name and
point the domain name to IP
address(es) designated by us until
the registration or renewal fee is
paid.
- SERVICES PROVIDED AT WILL; TERMINATION
OR SUSPENSION OF SERVICES:
- We and your Primary Service Provider
may reject your domain name registration
application or elect to discontinue
providing Services to you for any reason
within 30 days of a Service initiation
or a Service renewal. Outside of this
period, we and your Primary Service
Provider may terminate or suspend the
Services at any time for cause, which,
without limitation, includes (i)
registration of prohibited domain
name(s), (ii) abuse of the Services,
(iii) payment irregularities, (iv)
allegations of illegal conduct, (v)
failure to keep your Account or WHOIS
information accurate and up to date,
(vi) failure to respond to inquiries
from us for over ten (10) calendar days,
or (vii) if your use of the Services
involves us in a violation of any third
party’s rights or acceptable use
policies, including but not limited to
the transmission of unsolicited email or
the violation of any copyright.
- If we terminate or suspend the
Services provided to you under this
Agreement, we may then, at our option,
make either ourselves or a third party
the beneficiary of Services which are
substantially similar to those which
were previously provided to you. If we
have grounds to terminate or suspend
Services with respect to one domain name
or in relation to other Services
provided through your Account, we may
terminate or suspend all Services
provided through your Account. No fee
refund will be made when there is a
suspension or termination of Services
for cause.
- At any time and for any reason, we
may terminate the Services thirty (30)
days after we send notice of termination
via mail or email, at our option, to the
WHOIS contact information provided in
association with your domain name
registration. Following notice of
termination other than for cause, you
must transfer your domain name within
such thirty (30) day notice period or
risk that we may delete your domain
name, transfer the registration services
associated with your domain name to
ourselves or a third party, or suspend
or modify Services related to your
domain name. If we terminate Services
for a reason other than cause, we will
provide a pro-rata refund of your fees.
- Your registration of a domain name
is subject to suspension, cancellation
or transfer by any ICANN procedure now
in affect or which may come into affect
at a later date, by any registrar or
registry administrator procedures
approved by an ICANN-adopted policy or
any policy adopted by any ccTLD registry
or governing body, to correct mistakes
by us, another registrar or the registry
administrator in administering the
domain name or for the resolution of
disputes concerning the domain name or
as a result of any government decree,
rule, law or regulation.
- FEES: You agree to pay, prior to the
effectiveness of the desired Services, the
applicable Service fees set forth on the
pricing or otherwise communicated to you. In
the event any of the fees for Services
change, we will use reasonable efforts to
give you thirty (30) days prior notice of
such changes on the prices or by other
reasonable means. Please check the prices
often for any changes to our Services fees.
All fees are non-refundable, in whole or in
part, even if your domain name registration
is suspended, cancelled or transferred prior
to the end of your then current registration
term, unless this Agreement specifically
provides for a refund. At our option, we may
require that you pay fees through a
particular payment means (such as by credit
card or by wire transfer) or that you change
from one payment provider to another.
- PAYMENT ISSUES: In the event of a charge
back by a credit card company (or similar
action by another payment provider allowed
by us) in connection with your payment of
fees for any Services, we and/or your
Primary Service Provider may suspend access
to any and all Accounts you have with us
and/or your Primary Service Provider and all
interests in and use of any domain name
registration services, website hosting,
and/or email services, including all data
hosted on our systems and/or on the systems
of your Primary Service Provider may be
assumed by us or your Primary Service
Provider, as the case may be, or may be
terminated. We may reinstate your rights to
and control over these Services solely at
our discretion, and subject to our receipt
of the unpaid fees and our then-current
reinstatement fee set forth on the prices or
otherwise communicated to you. Reinstatement
of Services by your Primary Service Provider
may be according to the terms between you
and your Primary Service Provider relating
to reinstatement. If you have an issue with
credit card or other payment charges, you
should contact your Primary Service
Provider, first, and us, second, regarding
the issue before you contact your credit
card or other payment process company to
request a charge back or reversal of the
charges.
- EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL OF SERVICES: It
is your responsibility to keep your own
records and to maintain your own reminders
regarding when your domain name registration
or other Services are set to expire and to
maintain current and accurate credit card
information should any Services be placed
on"auto-renew." As a convenience to you, and
not as a binding commitment, we and/or your
Primary Service Provider may notify you via
an email message or via your Account when
renewal fees are due. Should these fees go
unpaid, your Services will expire or be
cancelled. Payment must be made by credit
card or such other method as we may allow or
require from time to time. If you select
automatic renewal of the Services, we may
attempt to renew the Services a reasonable
time before expiration, provided your credit
card or other billing information is
available and up to date. It is your
responsibility to keep your billing
information up to date and we are not
required to, but may, contact you to update
this information in the event that an
attempted transaction is not processed
successfully. Please note: for certain TLDs,
the automatic renewal option is not
available.
- EXPIRATION OF A DOMAIN NAME
REGISTRATION: Immediately after the
expiration of the term of domain name
registration services and before deletion of
the domain name in the applicable registry's
database, we may direct the domain name to
name-servers and IP address(es) designated
by us, including, without limitation, to no
IP address or to IP address(es) which host a
parking page or a commercial search engine
that may display advertisements, and we may
either leave your WHOIS information intact
or we may change the contact information in
the WHOIS output for the expired domain name
so that you are no longer the listed
registrant of the expired domain name.
- Reactivation Period Process. For a
period of approximately 30 days after
expiration of the term of domain name
registration services, we may provide a
procedure by which expired domain name
registration services may be renewed. We
may, but are not obligated to, offer
this process, called the "reactivation
period." You assume all risks and all
consequences if you wait until close to
or after the expiration of the original
term of domain name registration
services to attempt to renew the domain
name registration services. We may, in
our sole discretion, choose not to offer
a reactivation period and we shall not
be liable therefore. The reactivation
period renewal process, if any, may
involve additional fees which we and
your Primary Service Provider may
determine. We may make expired domain
name services(s) available to third
parties, we may auction off the rights
to expired domain name services (the
auction beginning close to the end or
after the end of the reactivation
period), and/or expired domain name
registration services may be
re-registered to any party at any time.
- After the reactivation period, we
may:
- Discontinue the domain name
registration services at any time
thereafter without notice. In which
case, certain registry
administrators may provide
procedures by which discontinued
domain name registration services
may nonetheless be renewed. We may,
but are not obligated to,
participate in this process,
typically called the "Redemption
Grace Period" ("RGP"). We may, in
our sole discretion, choose not to
participate in the RGP process with
respect to any or all of your domain
name registration services and we
shall not be liable therefore. If
available, RGP typically ends
between 30 and 42 days after the end
of the reactivation period of the
domain name services. The current
RGP fee is set forth on the prices
and does not include any
registration fees that may also be
due. We are not obliged to contact
you to alert you that the domain
name registration services are being
discontinued; or
- Pay the registry's registration
fee or otherwise provide for the
registration services to be
continued. In which case, we may
then set the name-servers and the
DNS settings for the domain name
services, we may set the DNS to
point to no IP address or to IP
address(es) which host parking
page(s) or a commercial search
engine that may display paid
advertisements, and we may change
the contact information in the WHOIS
output for the expired domain name
so that you are no longer the listed
registrant of the expired domain
name. We do not have to pay you any
of the proceeds we may earn as a
result. We are not obliged to
contact you to alert you that the
domain name registration services
are being continued. The domain name
will be designated as being in the
extended redemption grace period
("ERGP"), and you will be allowed to
assume, during the first 120 days of
the then extant registration term,
complete management of the domain
name services, including the right
to control the DNS settings,
provided that you pay the fee set
forth on the prices plus any
registration fees. After the end of
the 120-day period, if you do not
exercise your rights under this
provision, you have abandoned the
domain name services, and relinquish
all interests and use of the domain
name services; or
- If we auctioned the domain name
services to a third party, we may
transfer the domain name
registration services to such third
party. In which case, the third
party who won the auction for the
domain name services will control
the domain name services, including
control over the WHOIS information
and the DNS settings. You may
recover the domain name registration
services for a period of up to 42
days after the end of the
reactivation period, as such
reactivation period applied to you.
We are not obliged to contact you to
alert you that the domain name
registration services are or were
auctioned. We do not have to pay you
any of the proceeds we may earn as a
result of such an auction. To
exercise your rights to recover
auctioned domain name services, you
must contact us and provide us with
a certified letter addressed to
"Expiration Recovery" and include
documents setting forth your
identity and address, which identity
and address must be the same as the
registrant as it was listed in the
WHOIS information for the domain
name services immediately prior to
expiration, a copy of a commonly
accepted (in the United States)
picture ID (such as a drivers
license or passport) which supports
your identity and address claim, a
front and back photocopy of the
credit card you used to pay for
Services and you must provide a
statement authorizing payment of the
reinstatement fee to such credit
card, which amount is set forth on
the prices, plus any registration
fees. In doing so, you must provide
us with sufficient time, in our sole
discretion, to allow us to receive
and evaluate your documents and to
contact the auction winner prior to
the end of 30 days after the end of
the reactivation period of the
domain name services.
- TRANSFERS:
- Transfer of your domain name(s)
services shall be governed by ICANN's
transfer policy, available at
http://www.icann.org/transfers/,
including the Registrar Transfer Dispute
Resolution Policy, available at
http://www.icann.org/en/transfers/dispute-policy-12jul04.htm
as well as the UDRP as described in
Section 16 of this Agreement, as these
policies may be modified from time to
time. To transfer your domain name(s)
you should first login to your Account
to lock or unlock your domain name(s)
and/or to obtain the EPP "AuthCode"
which is required to transfer domain
services in an EPP registry (such as
.org). Alternatively, you should contact
your Primary Service Provider to have
your domain name(s) services locked or
unlocked or to obtain the EPP
"AuthCode." If your Primary Service
Provider is unresponsive, you may
contact us to have your domain name(s)
locked or unlocked or to obtain the EPP
"AuthCode" though we may first contact
your Primary Service Provider to request
that the Primary Service Provider
address the request. Only the registrant
and the administrative contacts listed
in the WHOIS information may approve or
deny a transfer request. Without
limitation, domain name services may not
be transferred within 60 days of initial
registration, within 60 days of a
transfer, if there is a dispute
regarding the identity of the domain
name registrant, if you are bankrupt, or
if you fail to pay fees when due. We
will follow the procedures for both
gaining and loosing registrars as
outlined in ICANN's transfer policies.
Transfer requests typically take five
business days to be processed. A
transfer will not be processed if,
during this time, the domain name
registration services expire, in which
event you may need to reinstate the
transfer request following a redemption
of the domain name, if any. You may be
required to resubmit a transfer request
if there is a communication failure or
other problem at either our end or at
the registry. YOU ASSUME ALL RISK FOR
FAILURE OF A TRANSFER WHETHER OR NOT THE
TRANSFER PROCESS IS INITIATED CLOSE TO
THE END OF A REGISTRATION TERM.
- We may place a "Registrar Lock" on
your domain name services and this will
prevent your domain name services from
being transferred without your
authorization, though we are not
required to do so. By allowing your
domain name services to remain locked,
you provide express objection to any and
all transfer requests until the lock is
removed.
- OWNERSHIP OF INFORMATION AND DATA: We
own all database, compilation, collective
and similar rights, title and interests
worldwide in our domain name database, and
all information and derivative works
generated from the domain name database. We
own the following information for those
registrations for which we are the
registrar: (a) the original creation date of
the registration, (b) the expiration date of
the registration, (c) the name, postal
address, e-mail address, voice telephone
number, and where available fax number of
the registrant and all contacts for the
domain name registration, (d) any remarks
concerning the registered domain name that
appear or should appear in the WHOIS or
similar database, and (e) any other
information we generate or obtain in
connection with the provision of Services,
other than the domain name being registered,
the IP addresses of the primary nameserver
and any secondary nameservers for the domain
name, and the corresponding names of those
nameservers. We do not have any ownership
interest in your specific personal
registration information outside of our
rights in our domain name database.
- AGENTS AND LICENSES: If you are
registering a domain name for or on behalf
of someone else, you represent that you have
the authority to bind that person as a
principal to all terms and conditions
provided herein. If you license the use of a
domain name you register to us or a to third
party, you remain the domain name holder of
record, and remain responsible for all
obligations at law and under this Agreement,
including but not limited to payment
obligations, and providing (and updating, as
necessary) both your own full contact
information, and accurate technical,
administrative, billing and zone contact
information adequate to facilitate timely
resolution of any problems that arise in
connection with the domain name and domain
name registration and for ensuring
non-infringement of any third party
intellectual property rights.
- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: WE WILL NOT BE
LIABLE FOR ANY (a) SUSPENSION OR LOSS OF THE
SERVICES, (b) USE OF THE SERVICES, (c)
INTERRUPTION OF SERVICES OR INTERRUPTION OF
YOUR BUSINESS, (d) ACCESS DELAYS OR ACCESS
INTERRUPTIONS TO OUR WEB SITE(S) OR SERVICES
OR DELAYS OR ACCESS INTERRUPTIONS YOU
EXPERIENCE IN RELATION TO A DOMAIN NAME
REGISTERED WITH US; (e) LOSS OR LIABILITY
RESULTING FROM ACTS OF OR EVENTS BEYOND OUR
CONTROL (f) DATA NON-DELIVERY, MIS-DELIVERY,
CORRUPTION, DESTRUCTION OR OTHER
MODIFICATION; (g) THE PROCESSING OF AN
APPLICATION FOR A DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION;
(h) LOSS OR LIABILITY RESULTING FROM THE
UNAUTHORIZED USE OR MISUSE OF YOUR ACCOUNT
IDENTIFIER OR PASSWORD; OR (i) APPLICATION
OF ANY DISPUTE POLICY. NEITHER WE NOR YOUR
PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER WILL BE LIABLE FOR
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 OR
YOUR PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER HAVE BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR OR YOUR PRIMARY
SERVICE PROVIDER'S MAXIMUM AGGREGATE
LIABILITY EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY
YOU FOR SERVICES, BUT IN NO EVENT GREATER
THAN $400.00 (US Dollars). BECAUSE SOME
STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR
INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH STATES, OUR AND
YOUR PRIMARY SERVICE PROVIDER'S LIABILITY
SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW.
- INDEMNITY: You hereby release,
indemnify, and hold us, ICANN, the registry
operators, and your Primary Service
Provider, as well as the contractors,
agents, employees, officers, directors,
shareholders, and affiliates of such parties
harmless from and against any and all
liabilities, claims, damages, costs and
expenses, including reasonable attorneys’
fees and court costs, for third party claims
relating to or arising under this Agreement,
including any breach of any of your
representations, warranties, covenants or
obligations set forth in this Agreement, the
Services provided hereunder, or your use of
the Services, including, without limitation,
infringement by you, or by anyone else using
the Services, of any intellectual property
or other proprietary right of any person or
entity, or from the violation of any of our
or ICANN’s operating rules or policies
relating to the Services provided. We may
seek written assurances from you in which
you promise to indemnify and hold us
harmless from the costs and liabilities
described in this paragraph. Such written
assurances may include, in our sole
discretion, the posting of a performance
bond(s) or other guarantees reasonably
calculated to guarantee payment. Your
failure to provide such assurances may be
considered by us to be a breach of this
Agreement by you and may, in our sole
discretion, result in loss of your right to
control the disposition of domain name
Services for which you are the registrant
and in relation to which we are the
registrar of record. This indemnification is
in addition to any indemnification (a)
required under the UDRP or any other ICANN
policy or any policy of any relevant
registry; or (b) set forth elsewhere in this
Agreement.
- REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES: YOU
REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT NEITHER THE
REGISTRATION OF A DOMAIN NAME NOR THE MANNER
IN WHICH IT IS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY USED
NOR THE USE OF OTHER OF THE SERVICES
INFRINGES THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF A THIRD PARTY
OR WILL OTHERWISE SUBJECT US TO A LEGAL
CLAIM. THE SERVICES ARE INTENDED FOR USE BY
PERSONS WHO ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD AND BY
USING THE SERVICES, YOU REPRESENT AND
WARRANT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD
AND ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU IN
CONNECTION WITH YOUR PROCUREMENT OF THE
SERVICES IS ACCURATE. ALL SERVICES ARE
PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS" AND WITH ALL FAULTS.
EXCEPT FOR OUR STATEMENT REGARDING OUR
ACCREDITATION AS ICANN-APPROVED DOMAIN NAME
REGISTRARS, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, UNLESS
SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES ARE NOT
LEGALLY EXCLUDABLE. WITHOUT ANY LIMITATION
TO THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS
OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER THAT
REGISTRATION OR USE OF A DOMAIN NAME UNDER
THIS AGREEMENT WILL IMMUNIZE YOU EITHER FROM
CHALLENGES TO YOUR DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION,
OR FROM SUSPENSION, CANCELLATION OR TRANSFER
OF THE DOMAIN NAME REGISTERED TO YOU. ANY
MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE
OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF OUR E-MAIL
FORWARDING OR OTHER EMAIL SERVICE IS DONE AT
YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND 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 OUR E-MAIL SERVICES OR ANY
TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OUR E-MAIL
SERVICES. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER
ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US
SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE
HEREIN. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE
EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF
THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
- DISPUTE RESOLUTION POLICY: You are bound
by all ICANN consensus policies and all
policies of any relevant registry, including
but not limited to the Uniform Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"), which is
available at
http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp-rules-24oct99.htm
and
http://www.icann.org/dndr/udrp/policy.htm
along with the UDRP Rules and all
Supplemental Rules of any UDRP provider. The
UDRP may be changed by ICANN (or ICANN's
successor) at any time. 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
UDRP in effect at the time your domain name
registration is disputed by the third party.
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 of the UDRP. If you or your
domain name are the subject of litigation,
we may deposit control of your domain name
record into the registry of the judicial
body by providing a party with a registrar
certificate.
- GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION FOR
DISPUTES:
- Except as otherwise set forth in the
UDRP or any similar ccTLD policy, with
respect to any dispute over a domain
name registration, this Agreement, your
rights and obligations and all actions
contemplated by this Agreement shall be
governed by the laws of the United
States of America and the State of
Washington, as if the Agreement was a
contract wholly entered into and wholly
performed within the State of
Washington.
- Any dispute, claim or controversy
arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or the breach, termination,
enforcement, interpretation or validity
thereof, including the determination of
the scope or applicability of the
agreement to arbitrate, shall be
determined by arbitration in King
County, Washington, before one
arbitrator. The arbitration shall be
administered by JAMS pursuant to its
Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and
Procedures. Judgment on the Award may be
entered in any court having
jurisdiction. This clause shall not
preclude parties from seeking
provisional remedies in aid of
arbitration from a court of appropriate
jurisdiction. Service of process on you
by us in relation to any dispute arising
under this Agreement may be served upon
you by first class mail to the address
listed by you in your Account and/or
domain name WHOIS information or by
electronically transmitting a true copy
of the papers to the email address
listed by you in your Account and/or
domain name WHOIS information.
- Notwithstanding the foregoing, for
the adjudication of third party disputes
(i.e., disputes between you and another
party, not us) concerning or arising
from use of domain names registered
hereunder, you shall submit without
objection, without prejudice to other
potentially applicable jurisdictions, to
the subject matter and personal
jurisdiction of the courts (i) of the
domicile of the registrant as it appears
in the public WHOIS record for the
domain name(s) in controversy, and (ii)
where we are located, currently those
State or federal courts whose geographic
districts include Bellevue, Washington.
- NOTICES: Any notices required to be
given under this Agreement by us to you will
be deemed to have been given if delivered in
accordance with the Account and/or domain
name WHOIS information you have provided.
- GENERAL: This Agreement and all
applicable ICANN policies and the policies
of any relevant registry, including but not
limited to the UDRP, together with all
modifications, constitute the complete and
exclusive agreement between you and us, and
supersede and govern all prior proposals,
agreements, or other communications. Nothing
contained in this Agreement shall be
construed as creating any agency,
partnership, or other form of joint
enterprise between the parties. The failure
of us to require your performance 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. In the event that any provision of
this Agreement shall be unenforceable or
invalid under any applicable law or be so
held by applicable court decision, such
unenforceability or invalidity shall not
render this Agreement unenforceable or
invalid as a whole. We will amend or replace
such provision with one that is valid and
enforceable and which achieves, to the
extent possible, our original objectives and
intent as reflected in the original
provision. This Agreement may not be amended
or modified by you except by means of a
written document signed by both you and an
authorized representative of us.
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PhilDomain's
Registrar has been accrredited by ICANN, the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers
PhilDomain's Registrar is also a member of the Internet Council
of Registrars (CORE)
Please review our Terms and Conditions: Disclaimer,
Registration Agreement, and Dispute
Policy.
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