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CUSTOMER DOMAIN REGISTRATION PRODUCT
AGREEMENT EXTENSION
WEBMASTER SRL after referred to as
'Parent' AND you referred to as 'Customer')
HAVE
entered into a Customer Master
Agreement ('Agreement') effective from <#=agreementdate#> of which this 'Domain
Registration Product Agreement Extension' is a part.
WHEREAS, Parent is authorized to
provide Internet registration and management services for second-level domain
names within .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, .NAME and .US top level domains and
.NAME Defensive Registrations and .NAME Mail Forwards;
WHEREAS, the Customer wishes to
purchase Registration and/or Management and/or Renewal and/or Transfer for .com
or .net or .org or .info or .biz or .name or .us top level domains or .NAME
Defensive Registrations or .NAME Mail Forwards through Parent;
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in
consideration of the mutual promises, benefits and covenants contained herein
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, adequacy and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Parent and the Customer, intending
to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS
(1) 'TLD' refers to .com, .net,
.org, .info, .biz, .us, .name
(2) 'gTLD' refers to .com, .net,
.org, .info, .name and .biz
(3) 'Domain Order' refers to an
Order fulfilled by the Customer through the Parent under this Domain
Registration Product Agreement Extension
(4) 'Registrant' refers to the
registrant/owner of a Domain Order as in the OrderBox Database.
(5) 'Registrar' refers to the
Registrar of a Domain Order as in the OrderBox Database and/or shown in the
Whois Record;
(6) Registry Operator refers to
the Organisation/Entity that maintains the registry of a TLD of a Domain Order;
(7) 'Whois Record' refers to the
collection of all data elements of the Domain Order, specifically its Registrant
Contact Information, Administrative Contact Information, Technical Contact
Information, Billing Contact Information, Nameservers if any, its Creation and
Expiry dates, its Registrar and its current Status in the Registry;
2. OBLIGATIONS OF THE CUSTOMER
(1) The Customer must ensure that
the Registrant of each Domain Order must agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions laid out by the Registrar of the Domain Name during the term of the
Domain Order. The Customer must familiarize himself with such terms. The
Customer acknowledges that the Registrar has various rights and powers as
mentioned in the Registrar's terms and conditions. Parent is not liable for any
action taken by Registrar pursuant to the Registrar's terms and conditions. The
Customer acknowledges and agrees that the Customer shall indemnify Parent of,
and shall be responsible for any liability resulting from Registrants'
noncompliance with such terms and conditions.
(2) The Customer will not make
any changes to any information associated with the Domain Order without explicit
authorization from the Registrant of that Domain Order.
(3) The Customer must comply with
all applicable terms and conditions, standards, policies, procedures, and
practices laid down by ICANN, the Registrar and the Registry Operator.
3. RIGHTS OF PARENT
Parent and Service Providers, in
their sole discretion, expressly reserve the right to freeze, delete, suspend,
deny, cancel, modify, take ownership of or transfer any Domain Order, in order
to comply with any applicable Dispute policies, requests of law enforcement, or
in compliance with any Court Orders, or if Parent or Service Providers in their
sole discretion determine that the information associated with the Domain Order
is inaccurate, or has been tampered with, or has been modified without
authorization, or if Parent or Service Providers in their sole discretion
determine that the Domain Order ownership should belong to another entity, or if
Customer/Customer/Registrant does not comply with any applicable terms and
conditions, standards, policies, procedures, and practices laid down by Parent,
Service Providers, ICANN, the Registrar and the Registry Operator. The Customer
agrees that Parent and Service Providers, and the contractors, employees,
directors, officers, representatives, agents and affiliates, of Parent and
Service Providers, are not liable for loss or damages that may result from any
of the above.
4. SURVIVAL
In the event of termination of this
Product Agreement Extension for any reason, Sections 2 and 3 shall survive
Domain Names have a
variety of basic rules:
.COM, .NET
and .ORG Domain Names
.COM - to be used for
commercial and personal sites
.NET - recommended for companies involved in Internet
.ORG - recommended for not-for-profit organizations
Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
Must have less than 63* characters, not including .COM, .NET and .ORG
*.com, .net and .org names exceeding a total of 26 characters are supported by
most browsers. However,certain browsers, email programs and other related
applications may not support domain names over 26 characters.
.BIZ Domain Names
.BIZ - WebSite, to be
used for commercial sites
Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
.BIZ domains registered through us can not have more then 63 characters (Minimum
3 characters) not including the .BIZ extension.
.INFO Domain Names
.INFO - WebSite, to be
used for commercial / personal sites
Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
.INFO domains registered through us can not have more then 63 characters
(Minimum 3 characters) not including the .INFO extension.
NAME Domain Names
.NAME - Eligibility
requirements
.name is aimed exclusively for people's personal names, for use as both a domain
name and an email forwarding account.
Definition of personal name
A personal name in the .name context, is a person's legal name, or a name by
which the person is commonly known. This includes pseudonyms and stage names.
Any individual or entity is eligible to register a personal name if it falls
into one of the following categories:
The personal name of an individual, providing it is his or her own personal name
The personal name of a fictional character, providing that individual or entity
has trademarks or service mark rights in that character's personal name
Additional characters. Registrants may add numeric characters to their personal
name to differentiate it from other personal names, e.g. john.smith2001.name or
john1950.smith.name
US Domain Names
WebSite, to be used for commercial / personal sites
Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
.US domains registered through us can not have more then 63 characters (Minimum
3 characters) including the .US extension.
Registration Restrictions
Any United States Business or Individual can now register their own domain name
in the new dot US name space to establish their own American Internet identity.
Individuals, organizations, businesses, city/county governments, Native
Sovereign Nations, schools (K-12, private, community colleges), libraries, state
agencies, and museums may all obtain a .US domain name.
Domain Name Registration
Terms of Use.
1. AGREEMENT. In this Service
Agreement ("Agreement") "you" and "your" refer to each customer, "we", us" and
"our" refer to Smart Business Online and Services refers to the services provide
by us. This Agreement explains our obligations to you, and explains your
obligations to us for various Services. By selecting our Services you have
agreed to establish an account with us for such Services. When you use your
account or permit someone else to use it to purchase or otherwise acquire access
to additional Services or to cancel your Services (even if we were not notified
of such authorization), this Agreement covers such service or actions. By using
the Services under this Agreement, you acknowledge that you have read and agree
to be bound by all terms and conditions of this Agreement and any pertinent
rules or policies that are or may be published by us.
2. SELECTION OF A DOMAIN NAME. We cannot and do not check to see whether
the domain name you select, or the use you make of the domain name, infringes
legal rights of others. We urge you to investigate to see whether the domain
name you select or its use infringes legal rights of others, and in particular
we suggest you seek advice of competent counsel. You may wish to consider
seeking one or more trademark registrations in connection with your domain name.
You should be aware that there is the possibility we might be ordered by a court
to cancel, modify, or transfer your domain name. You should be aware that if we
are sued or threatened with lawsuit in connection with your domain name, we may
turn to you to hold us harmless and indemnify us.
3. FEES, PAYMENT AND TERM. As consideration for the services you have
selected, you agree to pay us the applicable service(s) fees. All fees payable
here under are nonrefundable unless we provide otherwise. As further
consideration for the Services, you agree to: (1) provide certain current,
complete and accurate information about you as required by the registration
process and (2) maintain and update this information as needed to keep it
current, complete and accurate. All such information shall be referred to as
account information ("Account Information"). You hereby grant us the right to
disclose to third parties such Account Information. The Registrant, by
completing and submitting the Domain Name Registration Agreement ("Registration
Agreement"), represents that the statements in its application are true and that
the registration of the selected Domain Name, so far as the Registrant is aware,
does not interfere with or infringe upon the rights of any third party. The
Registrant also represents that the Domain Name is not being registered for any
unlawful purpose.
4. 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, Section
20. 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,
Section 20. 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 abide by
any such revisions or changes. You further agree that we, in our sole
discretion, may modify our Dispute Policy at any 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.
5. 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.
6. 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 our current Domain Name Dispute Policy ("Dispute Policy")
which is incorporated herein and made a part of this Agreement by reference. The
current version of the Dispute Policy may be found at the Network Solutions web
site. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with such policy.
7. 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 your domicile, the courts of the
geographic location indicated by your WHOIS information for your domain name,
and the courts of The United States of America.
8. AGENTS. You agree that, if an agent for you (i.e., an Internet Service
Provider, employee, etc.) purchased our Services on your behalf, you are
nonetheless bound as a principal by all terms and conditions herein, including
the Dispute Policy.
9. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We reserve the right to distribute information to you
that is pertinent to the quality or operation of our services and those of our
service partners. These announcements will be predominately informative in
nature and may include notices describing changes, upgrades, new products or
other information to add security or to enhance your identity on the Internet.
10. 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 development or interruption of your Web site or e-mail
service. The registrant agrees that we will not be liable for any loss of
registration and use of registrant's 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 one hundred ($100.00) dollars.
11. INDEMNITY . You agree to release, indemnify, and hold us, our
contractors, agents, employees, officers, directors and affiliates harmless from
all liabilities, claims and expenses, including attorney's fees, of third
parties relating to or arising under this Agreement, the Services provided here
under or your use of the Services, including without limitation infringement by
you, or someone else using the E-mail 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.
12. 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 or terminate your e-mail account without further notice. 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.
13. 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.
14. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. You agree and warrant that the information
that you provide to us to register or reserve your domain name or register for
other Services is, to the best of your knowledge and belief, accurate and
complete, and that any future changes to this information will be provided to us
in a timely manner according to the modification procedures in place at that
time. 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 disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied,
including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchant ability, 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 our e-mail
service or that defects in the Services software will be corrected. You
understand and agree that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise
obtained through the use of the our e-mail 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 e-mail service or any transactions entered
into through the e-mail service. No advice or information, whether oral or
written, obtained by you from us or through the e-mail service 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.
15. REVOCATION. You agree that we may delete your domain name or
terminate your right to use other Services if the information that you provided
to register or reserve your domain name or register for other Services, or
subsequently to modify it, contains false or misleading information, or conceals
or omits any information we would likely consider material to our decision to
register or reserve your domain name. You agree that we may, in our sole
discretion, delete or transfer your domain name at any time.
16. 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, or to delete your domain name 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 or reserve,
or delete your domain name or register you for other Services.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. NON-WAIVER. Our failure to require performance by the Registrant 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.
20. 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 notice to us to Domain Name Registration or, in the
case of notice to you, at the e-mail address provided by you in your Affiliate
Program application or as updated from time to time. Mail shall be sent to Smart
Business Online 910 West San Marcos Blvd, San Marcos CA 92069 and to you at the
mailing address provided in your registration application or as updated from
time to time. 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. and otherwise on the next
business day. Any communication sent via regular mail shall be deemed to have
been validly and effectively given 5 business days after the date of mailing.
21. ENTIRETY . You agree that this Agreement, the rules and policies
published 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.
22. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND INTERPRETED AND
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE FEDERAL
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA APPLICABLE THEREIN WITHOUT REFERENCE TO
RULES GOVERNING CHOICE OF LAWS. ANY ACTION RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT MUST BE
BROUGHT IN THE PROVINCIAL COURTS LOCATED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND YOU IRREVOCABLY
CONSENT TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS.
23. INFANCY. You attest that you are of legal age to enter into this Agreement.
24. ACCEPTANCE OF AGREEMENT . YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT
AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
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