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.
We
reserve the right to modify this Policy at
any time with the permission of ICANN. We
will post our revised Policy at www.enom.com/drp.asp
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.