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Domain Registration Agreement
This Registration
Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the terms and conditions of your
use of Cheap Domain Registrar's ("cheap-domainregistrar.com")
domain name registration services to register an Internet domain
name, your registration of that domain name, as well as other Cheap Domain Registrar's domain name related services. In this
Agreement "you" and "your" refer to each customer and "we", "us"
and "our" refer to Cheap Domain Registrar. This Agreement
explains our obligations to you, and explains your obligations to
us for various Cheap Domain Registrar services. By selecting
our service(s) 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
Cheap Domain Registrar service(s) or to cancel your Cheap
Domain Registrar service(s) (even if we were not notified of
such authorization), this Agreement covers such service or actions.
By using the service(s) provided by us under this Agreement, you
acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by all terms
and conditions of this Agreement, the Dispute
Policy and any pertinent rules or policies that are or may be
published by us.
This Agreement
will become effective when accepted by Cheap Domain Registrar.
We may elect to accept or reject your domain name registration application
for any reason at its sole discretion, such rejection including,
but not limited to, rejection due to a request for registration
of a prohibited domain name.
1.
Our Services
Cheap Domain
Registrar is a reseller of Active-Domain Co.,
of which Active-Domain is an authorized partner of an
accredited registrar with the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers ("ICANN") for Top Level Domain Names (TLDs). ICANN oversees registrations and other aspects
of the TLDs. Active-Domain
Co. is, upon accepting your domain name registration application, your
billing sponsor for that application. All domain name registrations
we register for TLDs are not effective until we have delivered the
domain name registration information you provide us to the registry
administrator for the TLDs, as applicable, and the registry administrator
puts into effect your domain name registration.
You agree and
acknowledge that Cheap Domain Registrar is 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 your
application and receipt of, or failure to receive, a domain name
registration.
You further
agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the registry administrator
and its directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against
any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including
any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages
and reasonable legal fees and expenses) arising out of, or related
to, your domain name registration.
2.
What We Do Not Do
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 also 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 to indemnify us.
3.
Fees
As consideration for the domain name registration
services and/or other services provided by Active-Domain
Co. to you, you agree to pay us, prior to the effectiveness
of the desired domain name registration, the applicable service(s) fees for the initial registration of
the domain name and, should you choose to renew
the registration, subsequent renewals of the registration.
All fees are non-refundable, for any reason after
your domain name is registered with Internic's
central registry, even if you are forced to relinquish
the domain name as a result of copyright or trademark
violation. However, we will refund the registration
fees to you, in the event that your registration
is unsuccessful for any reason. As long as the
domain name is not registered, you will get your
money back.
The domain registration
fees is only applied for the registration, transfer, or renewal of your domain
name. All the current domain services are provided as complimentary services
except when explicit charges are stated. We reserve the rights to cancel,
withdraw and/or amend these services at any time.
Your requested
domain name will not be registered unless we receive actual payment
of the registration fee. As further consideration for our service(s), 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").
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 the payments
of the registration fee for your domain name registration, you agree
and acknowledge that the domain name registration shall be transferred
to our parent company (Active-Domain Co.) as the paying entity for that registration
to the registry. We will reinstate your domain name registration
solely at our discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial
registration or renewal fee and our reinstatement fee, currently
set at US$50.
We will attempt to
notify you via an email message or via your
account information when renewal fees are due.
Should these fees go unpaid after the expiration date of
your domain name,
your registration will be cancelled. It is your
responsibility as the domain owner to ensure that your domain name is renewed
promptly. Subsequent request to reactivate your domain name will be charged at
US$5 for each domain to be reactivated, on top of the applicable renewal fees. Payment must
be made by credit card or such other method as
we may indicate in the registration application
or renewal form. We will renew your name for you
provided your credit card or other billing information
is available and up to date, unless you instruct
us otherwise within the time specified. If your
billing information is not accurate and you wish
to renew your domain name registration, we will
contact you to update this information and charge
you accordingly.
4.
Disclaimer and Domain Name Dispute Policy
If you request,
reserved or registered a domain name through us, or transferred
a domain name to us from another registrar, you agree to be bound
by Cheap Domain Registrar's current Disclaimer published
on our site ("Disclaimer") and our
current Domain Name Dispute Policy ("Dispute
Policy").
Certain disputes, as specified in the Dispute Policy, are subject
to that Policy. 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 your domain name registration is disputed by the third
party. You also agree that, in the event a domain name dispute arises
with any third party, you will indemnify and hold Cheap Domain
Registrar harmless pursuant to the terms and conditions contained
in the Dispute Policy.
5.
Modifications to Cheap Domain Registrar's Registration Agreement and Dispute
Policy
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 Cheap Domain Registrar's web site, or on notification to
you by email. 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 email.
Notice of your termination will be effective on receipt and processing
by us. You agree that, by continuing to use our 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. Your continued use of the domain name
registered to you shall constitute your acceptance of this Agreement
and the Dispute Policy with the new modifications. You acknowledge
that if you do not agree to any of such changes, you may request
that your domain name registration be cancelled or transferred to
a different domain name registrar. You agree that such cancellation
or request for transfer will be your exclusive remedy if you do
not wish to abide by any changes to this Agreement or the Dispute
Policy.
6.
Account Information and Its Use
a. Information
You Are Required to Submit. As part of the registration process,
you are required to provide certain information and to update this
information promptly as needed to keep it current, complete and
accurate. The information you are obligated to provide in connection
with the domain name you are registering is the following:
- i. The domain
name being registered;
- ii. Your
(or The domain name holder's) name, postal address, email address,
voice telephone number, and where available, fax number; and
- iii. The
name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number,
and where available, fax number of the billing contact for the
domain name; and
- iv. Valid
payment information
You agree and
acknowledge that when you renew your domain name registration, the
type of information you are required to provide may have changed.
If you do not wish to provide the new required information, your
registration may not be renewed.
All other information
which we may request from you at registration is voluntary. However,
not providing the requested information may prevent you from obtaining
all products and services made available to domain name registrants
by us, other than registration of the domain name.
b. Additional Information Maintained About Your
Registration. In addition to the information you
provide, we maintain records relating to your domain name registration. These records
may include:
- i. The original
creation date of the registration;
- ii. The submission
date and time of the registration application to us and by us
to the proper registry;
- iii. Communications
(electronic or paper form) constituting registration orders, modifications,
or terminations and related correspondence between you and us;
- iv. Records
of account for your domain name registration, including dates
and amounts of all payments and refunds;
- v. The IP
addresses of the primary nameserver and any secondary nameservers
for the domain name;
- vi. The corresponding
names of those nameservers;
- vii. The
name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number,
and where available, fax number of the technical contact for the
domain name;
- viii. The
name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number,
and where available, fax number of the zone contact for the domain
name;
- ix. The expiration
and renewal date of the registration;
- x. Information
and copies in electronic or paper form regarding all other activity
between you and us and third parties relating to your domain name
registration and related services.
c. Your Obligations Relating to the Account
Information. In the event that, in registering the
domain name, you are providing information about or on behalf of a third party, you
hereby represent 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) that you
have obtained that third party's express consent to the disclosure and use of that
party's information as set forth in this Agreement. By registering a name or applying
for services you also represent that the statements in its application are true and you
also represent that the Domain Name is not being registered for any unlawful purpose.
You acknowledge
that willfully providing inaccurate information or willfully failing
to update information promptly will constitute a material breach
of this Agreement and will be sufficient basis for cancellation
of your domain name registration. You further agree that your failure
to respond for over ten (10) calendar days to inquiries by Cheap
Domain Registrar concerning the accuracy of contact details
associated with your registration shall constitute a material breach
of this Agreement and will be sufficient basis for cancellation
of your domain name registration.
d. Privacy Policy: Disclosure and Use of Registration
Information. You agree and acknowledge that Cheap
Domain Registrar will make available domain name registration information you provide or
that we otherwise maintain to ICANN, to the registry administrator(s),
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 for targeted marketing and other purposes
as required or permitted by ICANN and applicable laws.
Additionally,
you acknowledge that ICANN may establish 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.
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 and
other information by us.
You may access
your domain name registration information in our possession to review,
modify or update such information, by accessing your account at
our web site (https://domainpanel.com),
or via a similar service. In order to change any of your account
information with us, you must use your Account Identifier and Password
that were sent to you when you establish your account with us. Please
safeguard your Account Identifier and Password from any unauthorized
use. You agree that any person in possession of you Account Identifier
and Password will have the ability and your authorization to modify
your account information. In no event will we be liable for the
unauthorized use or misuse of your Account Identifier or Password. We will take reasonable precautions to
protect the information it obtains from you from our loss, misuse,
unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction of
that information.
7.
Ownership of Information and Data
You agree and
acknowledge that Cheap Domain Registrar owns the following
information for those registrations for which we have accepted:
(a) the original creation date of the registration, (b) the expiration
date of the registration, (c) the name, postal address, email address,
voice telephone number, and where available fax number of 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 domain name registration
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 its
rights in our domain name database.
8.
Agents and Licenses
You agree that,
if you are registering a domain name for or on behalf of someone
else, you represent that you have the authority to nonetheless bind
that person as a principal to all terms and conditions provided
herein, including the Dispute Policy.
You agree that
if you license the use of the domain name registered to you to a
third party, you nonetheless remain the domain name holder of record,
and remain responsible for all obligations 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.
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
CHEAP DOMAIN REGISTRAR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY (1) SUSPENSION
OR LOSS OF THE DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION IN YOUR NAME, (2) USE OF
YOUR DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION, (3) INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS, (4)
ACCESS DELAYS OR ACCESS INTERRUPTIONS TO OUR SITE OR THE WEB SITE(S)
OR SERVICES YOU ACCESS BY THE DOMAIN NAME REGISTERED IN YOUR NAME;
(5) LOSS OR LIABILITY RESULTING FROM ACTS OF GOD (6) DATA NON-DELIVERY,
MIS-DELIVERY, CORRUPTION, DESTRUCTION OR OTHER MODIFICATION; (7)
EVENTS BEYOND OUR CONTROL; (8) THE PROCESSING OF THIS APPLICATION;
(9) LOSS OR LIABILITY RESULTING FROM THE UNAUTHORIZED USE OR MISUSE
OF YOUR ACCOUNT IDENTIFIER OR PASSWORD; OR (10) APPLICATION OF THE
DISPUTE POLICY. CHEAP DOMAIN REGISTRAR ALSO WILL NOT 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 HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
11.
Indemnity
You agree to
release, indemnify, and hold Cheap Domain Registrar, its
contractors, agents, employees, and affiliates harmless from all
liabilities, claims and expenses, including attorney's fees, of
third parties relating to or arising under this Agreement, our services provided hereunder or your
use of our services, including without limitation infringement by
you, or someone else using any of our service with your computer,
of any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person
or entity, or from the violation of any Cheap Domain Registrar
operating rule or policy relating to the service(s) provided. 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. This indemnification is in
addition to any indemnification required under the Dispute Policy.
12.
Representations and Warranties
YOU REPRESENT
THAT, TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF, NEITHER THE REGISTRATION
OF THE DOMAIN NAME NOR THE MANNER IN WHICH IT IS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
USED INFRINGES THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF A THIRD PARTY. YOU FURTHER REPRESENT
AND WARRANT THAT ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU IN CONNECTION WITH
YOUR DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION IS ACCURATE. ALL DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
SERVICES ARE PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS." WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS
OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION
WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ITS DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION SERVICES, INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, UNLESS SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
ARE NOT LEGALLY EXCLUDABLE. 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. YOU UNDERSTAND
AND AGREE THAT 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 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. CHEAP DOMAIN REGISTRAR MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING
ANY GOODS OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE EMAIL SERVICE
OR ANY TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH THE EMAIL 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.
13.
Breach and Revocation
Cheap Domain
Registrar reserves the right to suspend, cancel, transfer or
modify your domain name registration or suspend, cancel or modify
other services we provide in the event (a) you materially breach
this Agreement (including the Dispute Policy) and do not cure such
breach within thirty (30) days of notice by us, (b) you use the
domain name registered to you to send unsolicited commercial advertisements
in contradiction to either applicable laws or customary acceptable
usage policies of the Internet, (c) you use your domain name in
connection with unlawful activity, or (d) grounds arise for such
suspension, cancellation, transfer or other modification as provided
for in this Agreement. You further acknowledge and agree that your
registration of a domain name is subject to suspension, cancellation
or transfer by any ICANN procedure, by any registrar or registry
administrator procedures approved by an ICANN-adopted policy, (1)
to correct mistakes by us, another registrar or the registry administrator
in administering the name or (2) for the resolution of disputes
concerning the domain name.
You also agree
that we shall have the right in its sole discretion to suspend,
cancel, transfer or otherwise modify a domain name registration
upon seven (7) calendar days prior written notice, or at such time
as we receive a properly authenticated order from a court of competent
jurisdiction, or arbitration award, requiring the suspension, cancellation
transfer or modification of the domain name registration.
14.
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 service(s), or to delete
your domain name within five (5) calendar days from receipt of
your payment for such services. In the event we do not register
or reserve your domain name,
or we delete your domain name within such five (5) 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 Cheap Domain Registrar service(s)
15.
Notices
You agree that
any notices required to be given under this Agreement by Cheap
Domain Registrar to you will be deemed to have been given if
delivered in accordance with the contact information you have provided.
16.
Infancy
You attest that
you are of legal age to enter into this Agreement.
17.
General
This Agreement,
our Disclaimer and the Dispute Policy, together with all modifications,
constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between you and
Cheap Domain Registrar, and supersede and govern all prior
proposals, agreements, or other communications. Nothing contained
in this Policy shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership,
or other form of joint enterprise between the parties. The failure
of Cheap Domain Registrar 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 Policy 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 Policy 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, the original objectives and our
intent as reflected in the original provision. This Agreement, our
Disclaimer and the Dispute Policy may not be amended or modified
by you except by means of a written document signed by both you
and an authorized representative of Cheap Domain Registrar.
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