Domain Name Registration Agreement

This Registration Agreement ("Agreement") is between you, any agent or person authorized to act on your behalf, the registrant listed in the WHOIS contact information for the domain name ("You", "Registrant"), and the following companies, which work in association with SGK Hosting - LiquidNet Ltd., an ICANN accredited domain registrar, headquartered in London, UK (No. 4654498) and LiquidNet US LLC, a US company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. SGK Hosting, LiquidNet US LLC and LiquidNet Ltd. will be referred to in this document as 'We', 'Us', 'Our' and 'Service Provider', for the sake of brevity.

  1. YOUR AGREEMENT

    The Agreement sets forth the terms and conditions of your use of domain name registration and related services ("Services"). It explains the obligations of the Service Provider to you, and explains your obligations to the Service Provider for various services offered by the Service Provider.

    By using the service(s) provided by the Service Provider under this Agreement, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by all terms and conditions of this Agreement, the accompanying dispute policy and any pertinent rules or policies that are or may be published by the Service Provider, the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy ("UDRP"), and the rules, policies, or agreements published in association with specific of the Service(s) and/or which may be enforced by Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), the registries, and governments.

  2. DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION/TRANSFER

    The Service Provider provides domain registrations for both generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs).

    1. All domain registrations and renewals are non-refundable. When a domain is registered/renewed, all registrar companies (including ours) pay a service fee to the top-level Registry organization ("Registry Operator") that manages the particular extension. As the Registries do not reverse dates and do not refund service fees, it is not possible for us to do this either.
    2. Domain name registrations/transfers are non-refundable. As changes are no longer allowed after a registration request is submitted, you should always check for correct spelling before purchasing a domain name.
    3. Domain name registrations are not operative before the registry оperator activates the domain name(s). The domain name registration(s) are only active during the registration period chosen by the registrant (you). The registration period of newly registered domain names starts from the date on which the registration is approved by the registry.
    4. The Service Provider and the top registry оperator, also known as Primary Service Provider, will not be held accountable for any inadvertences, mistakes or otherwise deviations on the side of the registry оperator in regards to requests for registration, renewal, or any modifications of already registered domain name(s).
    5. You, as the registrant, agree that the domain name registration is a service, which cannot be interpreted autonomously from the services described in this Agreement or a similar Agreement from the registrar. You, as a Registrant, accede that domain name registration services do not develop a proprietary significance and you will not be entitled to any such proprietary significance claims for domain name(s) registered through our company.
    6. The Registered Name Holder shall "indemnify and hold harmless the Registry Operator and its directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) arising out of or related to the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration." At its simplest, this means that if the Registry Operator (or its employees, etc.) for the registered name is sued because of the Registered Name Holder's domain name registration, the Registered Name Holder will pay the Registry Operator for all fees and expenses in defending against the suit as well as pay for any judgments or liabilities awarded. This "indemnification" is not solely limited to court cases.

    You can view the full list of Registrant Benefits, Rights and Responsibilities, approved by ICANN, on their website:
    http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/registrant-rights-responsibilities-en.htm
    https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#registrant

    If you register a .INFO domain name, you also enter into a contract of registration with Afilias Limited, which is represented by the following Terms & Conditions:
    http://afilias.info/policies

    If you register a .UK, .CO.UK, .ORG.UK or .ME.UK domain name, you also enter into a contract of registration with Nominet UK, which is represented by the following Terms & Conditions:
    http://www.nominet.uk/uk-domain-names/registering-uk-domain/legal-details/terms-and-conditions-domain-name-registration

  3. SERVICE PAYMENTS, RECURRING CONTRACTS AND CHARGEBACKS

    1. When signing up for an account with the Service Provider, you agree to pay for the period of one year (365 days) and abide by our Order Verification Policy. Our Sales Department will strictly scrutinize each account order and carefully processes each payment in order to ensure that no fraudulent user can take advantage of our web hosting system.
    2. The Service Provider will charge customers with fees based on the fee structure of our system at the time of the sign-up process. The Service Provider expressly reserves the right to change or modify its prices and fees at any time, and such changes or modifications shall be posted online on the Service Provider-owned websites and effective immediately without need for further notice to you. If you have purchased the service(s) for a period of months or years, changes or modifications in prices and fees shall be effective when the service(s) in question come up for renewal. For our current fee structure, you may access the schedule of fees available on the Service Provider-owned website.
    3. Each customer of ours will be able to take advantage of the domain service he/she has purchased at the introductory price levels, and with one and the same set of features in the course of the whole contract period. The Service Provider reserves the right to introduce certain changes to the Services (in the form of complementary services) to the benefit of the customer.
    4. When you pay for a domain name via credit card or PayPal, a 12-month recurring billing subscription will be created automatically for your convenience, for which you will get a notification from the payment processor.
    5. All automatic payments go through exactly 7 days before the due date so as to avoid any downtime to your websites if there is a problem with the credit card/PayPal account.
    6. We'll send you a reminder of the due payment at least 24 hours before the automatic charge takes place.
    7. You can cancel the subscription at any time from the Control Panel -> My Account -> Recurring, or directly through PayPal - if it's a PayPal account subscription.
    8. If a chargeback request is initiated through your bank, our payment processor will impose a penalty fee of $30 on us for handling the chargeback procedure. Thus, if you decides to reactivate the given domain/hosting service, you will have to cover the respective service fee and the penalty fee that resulted from your chargeback.

  4. EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL OF SERVICES; EXPIRATION NOTIFICATIONS

    5. Even though the Service Provider will provide regular reminders about the expiration of the domain name(s) registered through the company, it is your obligation to keep track of when the registration service(s) will expire. Should you fail to renew a domain name before its expiration date, the domain name will be suspended or canceled.

    1. After a domain name's expiration date, there is a period of 30 days, in which the domain name can be renewed. Certain domain name extensions do not have such a period, so leaving a domain name to expire before attempting a renewal is at your own discretion.
    2. After the 30-day renewal period has passed, some domain names (as per TLD Registry Operator Policies) enter a so-called Redemption Grace Period. A domain name, which has entered a Redemption Grace Period can still be renewed. However, additional fees will be added to the domain's renewal price.
    3. The RGP fee depends on the given TLD and on the registrar through which it is registered as follows:

      Registrar TLD RGP fee
      LiquidNet Ltd .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz $90.00
      LogicBoxes .us, .in, .cc, .tv $90.00
      EURid .eu $20.00
      eNom .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz,.co, .asia, .ca, .name, .mobi, .tw, .com.tw, .org.tw, .idv.tw, .pro, .me $270.00
    4. You can find the official information regarding the Redemption Grace Period on ICANN's page: http://www.icann.org/registrars/redemption-proposal-14feb02.htm
    5. If a Redemption Grace Period is applicable for a specific domain name, it will last between 30-42 days.
    6. Extended Redemption Grace Period - the extended redemption period may add another 7 - 30 days to the domain name's redemption period. During this period the domain name owner is allowed to retrieve the domain name from deletion by contacting the domain's registrar.
    7. If you do not redeem your domain name prior to the end of the Redemption Grace Period/Extended Redemption Grace Period (or the renewal period - if RGP is not applicable), the Service Provider reserves the right to delete the domain name, as per ICANN's Domain Deletion & Auto-renewal Policy (EDDP).
    8. After the redemption period of an expired domain name is over, follows the Pending Delete Period - a registry level period of up to 5 days during which no one is allowed to renew the domain name and it cannot be newly registered because it's still not returned to the public pool of domain names.
    9. Released by Registry Period - after the domain name's 'Pending Delete Period' is over, it is released back into the public pool of domain names and is newly available for registration.

    NOTE: As per EURid's domain expiration policy, all .EU domain names will be suspended one day BEFORE their official expiration date and will enter a 40-day Redemption Grace Period during which they can still be renewed. However, an additional fee will be added atop the renewal price.

    Pursuant to ICANN's Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP), the Service Provider will notify the Registrant of an expiring domain name before and after its expiration date. The Service Provider's renewal reminder will consist of an email message sent to the Registrant's email address as it is listed in the expiring domain's Whois record. The pre-expiration emails are sent 30, 14 and 7 days before the expiration date itself. The post-expiration notices are sent on the very expiration date, as well as 7 and 14 days after it. Where appropriate, the Service Provider sends such notices to the given domain name's administrative contact, and/or any other email address that the Service Provider determines, in its sole discretion, to be sufficiently related to the domain name in question. You therefore acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to provide and maintain accurate contact information so that the Service Provider can send you important notices regarding your account.

  5. BACKORDERING EXPIRING DOMAINS 

    6. Backordering a domain allows you to attempt to acquire an attractive domain that expires within the upcoming few days, the moment it becomes available for registration. The service is currently available only for .COM and .NET TLDs.

    Placing a backorder does not guarantee that you will acquire the domain name you have requested. We cannot guarantee a successful registration and will not be held liable if we are unable to register the requested domain name, because this registration process is on a first-come-first-served basis where we might be unsuccessful in our attempt to register it for you.

    In order to be eligible for the backorder domain service, you will need to deposit or have enough funds in your wallet balance. The amount placed in the wallet is non-refundable, so if we do not succeed in registering the domain for you, the funds will be returned in your overall wallet balance and you can use them for another service or attempt to backorder another domain.

  6. DOMAIN NAME WHOIS INFORMATION

    7. You agree to provide current, complete and accurate contact details with respect to the WHOIS information for your domain name(s). Within seven (7) days of any change to such information, you must update such information as needed to keep it current, complete and accurate.

    What you are required to submit will vary by registration but may include the administrative, technical, and billing contacts for your domain name registration(s) and other services: name, postal address, email address, voice telephone number, and where available, fax number, as well as the name of authorized person for contact purposes in the case of an Registrant that is an organization, association, or corporation.

    Not all data elements will be required for every domain registration, but the required elements will be detailed at time of registration or renewal. The type of information you are required to provide may change and you must provide such information and keep your Account information current.

    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, 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.

  7. REGISTRANT INFORMATION AND DATA SHARING

    1. Data required for the registration of a domain name varies by top-level domain. The required data for a domain name registration will be presented at the time of registration or renewal and may include up to:
      • registered name;
      • names of the primary nameserver and secondary nameserver(s) for the Registered Name;
      • name, postal address, email address, and voice and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the registrant contact for the domain name;
      • name, postal address, email address, and voice and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the administrative contact for the domain name;
      • name, postal address, email address, and voice and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the billing contact for the domain name; and
      • name, postal address, email address, and voice and fax (if available) telephone numbers of the technical contact for the domain name.
    2. You acknowledge and agree that the contact details of your domain, as well as its registration and expiration dates and the name server associated with it, may be shared with the relevant authoritative Registry Operator for your top-level domain.

      The identity of the Registry Operator can be found at https://www.iana.org/whois. The registration data for domains in any TLD you have registered can be found in the Data Use Information Page.

  8. COMPLETE AND ACCURATE DOMAIN NAME WHOIS INFORMATION

    9. You represent and warrant that the statements in your application are true and that no Services are being procured for any unlawful or abusive purpose, including but not limited to the infringement of any intellectual property right or other right; the distribution of malware; the abusive operation of botnets; phishing; fraudulent or deceptive practices; the unauthorized transfer to yourself or any other party of any domain name or services; counterfeiting; or any other activity in violation of any laws, rules, or regulations.

    Registrant's willful provision of inaccurate or unreliable information, its willful failure to update information within seven (7) days of any change, will constitute a material breach of the present Agreement and be a basis for suspension and/or cancellation of the domain name registration.

    If the information provided by the Registrant is deemed inaccurate by the Service Provider, and the Registrant fails to respond within 15 calendar days of the date the Service Provider sends a notice to the Registrant, this will be treated by the Service Provider as a material breach of the present Agreement and be a basis for suspension and/or cancellation of the domain name registration.

    You are solely responsible for keeping track of the emails that will be sent by the Service Provider to the email address associated with the registered domain name. Inability to respond to such inquiries and emails may result in losing ownership over the domain name(s).

  9. THIRD-PARTY USE OF DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATIONS

    10. If, in obtaining the Service Provider's 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 will represent that, to the best of the your knowledge and belief,