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Agreement Between User and MyDomain.com
Thank you for using the services of MyDomain.com. MyDomain.com is
the proud provider of services which empower you to register and manage
your domains online and includes without limitation web parking, web forwarding,
e-mail, e-mail forwarding, DNS and other services which may be offered
from time to time by MyDomain.com for use with your MyDomain.com account
(collectively and individually referred to as the "MyDomain.com Website", "Website",
the "MyDomain.com Services", "Services", or "MyDomain.com").
Your use of the MyDomain.com Website and Services is conditional
upon your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions and
notices contained herein. Your use
of our Services constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions
and notices.
1. Sign Up - Basic Terms
1.1 Upon approval of your application you
will become a member of MyDomain.com.
1.2 You agree to provide and maintain accurate,
complete and updated information to MyDomain.com.
1.3 The MyDomain.com Services are
currently offered free of charge to members and we are able to offer you
these services through the support of various advertising initiatives.
We reserve the right to make such Services advertiser supported in the
future, including but not limited to placement of advertising banners,
textlinks, search boxes, pop-ups, pop-unders and exit windows.
1.4 We currently have advertising on the MyDomain.com Under
Construction/Welcome Page and through use of our free URL Forwarding services,
but may change or add advertising banners, textlinks, search boxes, and
exit windows at any time.
1.5 In exchange
for membership privileges you agree to receive our periodic newsletters
and information on offers and promotions from our affiliates and partners
at any time.
2. Modification of Terms of Service
2.1 We reserve the right to change the terms
and conditions of this agreement at any time without prior notice. Such
changes will be posted on our web site at www.MyDomain.com. You agree to review
any changes to this agreement and, if such changes are not acceptable to
you, immediately terminate your use of the MyDomain.com service.
If you continue to use the MyDomain.com service after the effective
date of such changes, such use will constitute acceptance of the changes.
3. Modifications to MyDomain.com Service
3.1 By accepting this Agreement, you hereby
acknowledge and agree that, in our sole discretion, we may modify or discontinue,
temporarily or permanently, any aspect of the MyDomain.com Service
at any time with or without prior notice, including, without limitation,
modification or discontinuance of advertising, content and applications
appearing as part of the MyDomain.com Service. You agree that we
will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension
or discontinuance of the MyDomain.com Service.
4. Domain Registration
4.1 You understand and acknowledge that MyDomain.com is
not itself a registrar of domain names, but offers such registration services
on its Website as a service to its members by providing registration pages
and links to official sellers and registrars of domain names. Members are
under no obligation to use any of the domain registration services available
at MyDomain.com. If you use any of the domain registration services
on the MyDomain.com Website you will also be subject to the Registration
Agreement of the registrar for such domains, current Namesdirect.com.
4.2 You understand and acknowledge that
you will also have to pay an annual registration fee per domain name to
your designated registrar to maintain the registered status of each domain.
The fees vary from registrar to registrar. If you direct one or more domain
moves, you understand and acknowledge that you must continue to pay the
yearly registrar fees for your domain(s) to maintain registered status
of each domain, and that moving your domain to Mydomain's network in no
way alters your payment obligations to your registrar.
4.3 Once a domain is registered in your
name, or moved to Mydomain's network, you are considered the registrant
of the domain, and assume all responsibility for any and all trademark
disputes, infringements, maintenance fees or other obligations or liabilities
related to the domain. You shall not include us in any such dispute and
we reserve the right to raise any and all defenses and take other appropriate
action to protect our interests. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless MyDomain.com.
4.4 In the event that a conflict arises
between a MyDomain.com member account holding a domain name and
the listed registrant of said domain name, Mydomain will move, edit or
otherwise shift control of the use of the domain name within the MyDomain.com database
to the Admin Contact as listed in the Whois database at its discretion.
5. Privacy
5.1 MyDomain.com adheres to a Privacy
Statement and will not release any confidential information about you without
your consent, or as required by law or regulatory authority. You acknowledge
that some of your contact information will be attached to your domain(s)
and will therefore become publicly available. To review our Privacy Statement, click
here.
6. No Unlawful or Prohibited Use, Spam
and Termination
6.1 As a condition of your use of the MyDomain.com Services,
you agree that you will not use our Website for any purpose that is unlawful,
illegal or prohibited by these Terms of Services, or our other terms, conditions
or notices. You agree that you will not modify, copy, distribute, transmit,
reproduce, publish, license, transfer, sell or create derivative works
from, any data, software, Services or products obtained through our Website.
6.2 You agree that you will not use our
Services to conduct any activity or solicit the performance of any activity
that is prohibited by law or by regulatory authorities. You further agree
that you will not use our Services in any manner that could disable, damage,
overburden or impair our Website. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion,
to deny access at any time to users who breach our policies or cause other
abuses which we deem disruptive to the MyDomain.com or the Internet
community at large.
6.3 We reserve the right to decline the
registration or domain moves of adult-oriented domains and to revoke without
refund any Services which we, in our sole judgment, deem are being used
for any unlawful purpose, or to promote adult-oriented or "offensive" material,
or as a source of unsolicited bulk e-mail, or as an address to use for
replying to unsolicited bulk e-mail, or in a manner injurious to our members,
their reputation or the business reputation of the MyDomain.com.
This policy also applies to Usenet spam (off-topic, bulk posting/cross-posting,
advertising in non-commercial newsgroups, etc.). This policy will not apply
to e-mail return addresses used without the owner's consent or knowledge.
Under no circumstances will we interfere with your ownership of your registered
Domain.
6.4 The following are grounds for immediate
termination of service without notice:
6.4.1 Posting a single article or substantially
similar articles to an excessive number of newsgroups (i.e., more than
3) or posting of articles which are off-topic (i.e., off-topic according
to the newsgroup charter or the article provokes complaints from the readers
of the newsgroup for being off-topic) using a MyDomain.com hosted domain.
6.4.2 Sending unsolicited mass e-mails
(i.e., to more than 10 individuals, generally referred to as spamming)
which provokes complaints from any of the recipients; or engaging in spamming
from any provider and using a MyDomain.com hosted domain as a response
address.
6.4.3 Offering for sale or otherwise
enabling access to software products that facilitate the sending of unsolicited
e-mail or facilitate the assembling of multiple e-mail addresses ("spamware").
Advertising, transmitting, linking to, or otherwise making available any
software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate these
terms, which includes the facilitation of the means to spam, initiation
of pinging, flooding, mailbombing, denial of service attacks, and piracy
of software.
6.4.4 Harassment of other individuals
utilizing the Internet after being asked to stop by those individuals,
a court, a law-enforcement agency and/or MyDomain.com.
6.4.5 Impersonating another user or
otherwise falsifying one's identity for fraudulent purposes in e-mail,
Usenet postings, on IRC, or with any other Internet service.
6.4.6 Using a MyDomain.com hosted
domain to point to or otherwise direct traffic to any material that, in
the sole opinion of MyDomain.com, is associated with spamming, bulk e-mail,
e-mail harvesting, warez (or links to such material), is in violation of
copyright law, or contains material judged, in the sole opinion of MyDomain.com,
to be threatening or obscene or inappropriate is considered misuse of service.
6.4.7 A MyDomain.com hosted domain
is violating our terms if it is used to point to adult material, nudity,
or any material that, in the sole opinion of MyDomain.com, is considered
inappropriate, if the domain, in the sole opinion of MyDomain.com:
a) does not contain an obviously
adult term
b) contains misleading terms,
or
c) is likely a typo for another
domain, or
d) is not consistent with
the prior use of the domain by a previous owner
Such misuse can result in the cancellation
of your entire account and the blacklisting of your domains without notice.
6.4.8 Using a MyDomain.com hosted
domain that, in our sole opinion, has been used for the following (but
not limited to) activities:
Transmitting
Unsolicited Commercial e-mail (UCE)
Transmitting
bulk e-mail
Being
listed, or, in our sole opinion is about to be listed, in any Spam Blacklist
or DNS Blacklist
Posting
bulk Usenet/newsgroup articles
Denial
of Service attacks of any kind
Excessive
use of the web forwarding service
Excessive
use of the mail forwarding service
Copyright
or trademark infringement
Reselling
or attempting to resell MyDomain.com services
Unlawful
or illegal activities of any kind
Promoting
net abuse in any manner (providing software, tools or information wich
enables, facilitates or otherwise supports net abuse)
Causing
lossage or creating service degradation for other MyDomain.com users
whether intential or inadvertent.
6.5 We
reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to suspend or terminate your
access to our Website and the related Services or any portion thereof,
at any time, without notice. We will terminate for any breach of our terms
of service or for any activity that constitutes an unlawful or prohibited
use as described herein.
6.6 Member understands that service being
terminated to a domain under any terms of this agreement is grounds for
termination of related domains on the system under the same login or related
logins or domains sharing common contact records in the whois database
and that such termination can occur without notice.
6.7 We do whatever we can to prevent the
sending of unsolicited bulk e-mail messages. If you intend to use our Services
to spam the Internet community, please do not register with us.
6.8 MyDomain.com reserves the right
to reject any e-mail to or passing through a MyDomain.com hosted
domain or any MyDomain.com computer from any user, domain, provider,
IP address/netblock, or company that engages in, permits, or allows itself
to be used for spamming.
7. No Warranties/Limited Liability/Indemnification
7.1 The MyDomain.com service and
each portion thereof is provided "as-is" without any warranties
of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise including
but not limited to, any warranty that the MyDomain.com service will
meet your requirements, the MyDomain.com Service will be uninterrupted,
timely, secure or error-free, or any implied warranties of merchantability,
fitness for any particular purpose or noninfringement. Your use of the MyDomain.com Service
is entirely at your own risk. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the
exclusion or limitation of implied warranties, aspects of the above exclusion
may not apply to you. In such jurisdictions, any warranties will be limited
to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
7.2 You represent and warrant that any material
which you place or permit to be placed on the MyDomain.com service
with or without your authority, or on the Internet and/or the Web through MyDomain.com's
service, including your domain name(s), will not violate the rights of
any third party and will not give rise to any claim of such violation,
violate any federal, state or local law, rule or regulation of any type
of any nature (civil or criminal), including without limitation, laws with
respect to obscenity, indecency, harassment, or export controls, or contain
or transmit any software disabling devices or internal controls including,
without limitation, time bombs, worms, viruses or the like. You shall indemnify
and hold MyDomain.com and its employees, agents, shareholders, officers,
directors and successors and assigns harmless from and against any and
all claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses (including attorneys'
fees and costs and settlement costs) arising out of any breach by you of
any of the representations, warrantees or agreements set forth in these
Terms and Conditions.
7.3 YOU AGREE THAT MYDOMAIN.COM WILL NOT
BE LIABLE FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (A) SUSPENSION OR LOSS OF THE DOMAIN
SERVICES IN YOUR NAME; (B) USE OF YOUR DOMAIN BY YOU OR OTHERS, WHETHER
OR NOT AUTHORIZED BY YOU TO HAVE SUCH USE; (C) INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS;
(D) ACCESS DELAYS, DENIAL OF SERVICE (DOS) ATTACKS OR ACCESS INTERRUPTIONS
TO THIS SITE OR THE WEB SITE(S) YOU ACCESS BY YOUR DOMAIN; (E) DATA NON-DELIVERY,
MIS-DELIVERY, CORRUPTION, DESTRUCTION OR OTHER MODIFICATION; (F) EVENTS
BEYOND MYDOMAIN.COM?S REASONABLE CONTROL; (G) THE PROCESSING OF THIS APPLICATION;
OR (H) ANY FAILURES OF ENCRYPTION OR OTHER SERVICES PROVIDED.
7.4 MYDOMAIN.COM 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 MYDOMAIN.COM
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL
MYDOMAIN.COM?S MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID
BY YOU FOR USE OF OUR SERVICES.
7.5
SHOULD
THIS AGREEMENT OR A DISPUTE POLICY BE AMENDED IN SUCH A MANNER THAT YOU
DO NOT ACCEPT OR AGREE TO, YOUR SOLE REMEDY WILL BE TO CANCEL YOUR DOMAIN
SERVICES.
7.6 Indemnification. You agree to defend,
indemnify and hold Mydomain.com and all of their respective current and
former officers, directors, members, shareholders, agents, and employees
harmless from any claims, losses, damages, causes of action, liabilities
and expenses (including attorneys? fees) related to or arising out of acts
or omissions of you or your employees, directors, shareholders, members,
officers, agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or breach of any of the
foregoing representations and warranties.
8. Ownership of Data
8.1 You agree and acknowledge that MyDomain.com owns
all rights, title and interests to all database compilation in our domain
name database and all information and derivative works generated from the
domain name database. MyDomain.com does not have any ownership interest
in your specific personal registration information or in your registered
Domain. MyDomain.com does not have any ownership interest in the
materials you provide, post, upload, input or submit to our Website.
9. Copyright and Trademark Notices
9.1 All contents of our Website are Copyrighted
by MyDomain.com and its parent corporation. All rights reserved.
Except as otherwise agreed in writing, MyDomain.com owned content
received through our Website may be downloaded, displayed, reformatted
and printed for your personal, non-commercial use only. You agree not to
modify, copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, license, transfer,
sell or create derivative works from the content received through our Website
to anyone, without our express prior written consent. Trademarks or copyrights
of Third parties mentioned on our Website or hyper linked there from are
the registered trademarks and copyrights of their respective owners. Content
owned by licensors of MyDomain.com may be subject to additional
restrictions. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
10. General
10.1 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 MyDomain.com. This agreement,
together with all approved modifications, constitutes the entire and exclusive
agreement between you and MyDomain.com and supercedes all prior
proposals, agreements and other communications.
10.2 You
agree that this agreement does not create any agency, partnership, or other
form of joint enterprise between you and MyDomain.com or its affiliated
companies.
10.3 Mydomain.com may assign this agreement
and/or its responsibilities under this agreement at any time. You may
not assign this agreement, in whole or in part, without Mydomain?s written
consent. Any attempt by you to assign this Agreement without such consent
will be null and void and may result in this agreement being void, at Mydomain?s
discretion.
10.4 The failure of MyDomain.com 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 MyDomain.com of a breach of any provision hereof be taken
or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.
10.5 Force Majeure. Without limiting the foregoing
and except for payment obligations, Mydomain.com shall not have any liability
for any failure or delay resulting from any condition beyond the reasonable
control of such party, including but not limited to governmental action
or acts of terrorism, earthquake or other acts of God, labor conditions,
and power failures.
10.6 Governing Law. This Agreement will be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Washington,
USA. Any action to enforce this Agreement or any matter relating to your
use of the Website shall be brought exclusively in the Superior Court in
Clark County, Washington, or if there is no jurisdiction in such court,
then in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
in Tacoma.
10.5 In the event that any provision of this
agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability
shall not render this Agreement invalid or unenforceable as a whole.
10.6 You agree that any notices required to
be given under this Agreement by MyDomain.com to you will be deemed
to have been given if delivered in accordance with the contact information
you have supplied.
10.7 A printed version of this agreement and
of any notice provided in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial
or administrative proceedings to the same extent and subject to the same
conditions as non-electronic business documents and records.
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