[ga] [Fwd: CIRA Important Changes to you Dot-ca Domain Name Agreement]
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To all CIRA Registrants, The purpose of this email is to notify you of some VERY IMPORTANT CHANGES to the Registrant Agreement. These changes will apply to you and your dot-ca domain name registrations as of June 5, 2003. If you would like to view this notice in French, please click on the following link: http://www.cira.ca/fr/q2.2003.html You can view this notice on CIRA's website at: http://www.cira.ca/en/q2.2003.html The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is the corporation responsible for operating the dot-ca domain name registry. As a dot-ca domain name registrant, you entered into a Registrant Agreement (the "Agreement") with CIRA when you registered your first dot-ca domain name. The terms of this Agreement apply to all your current and future dot-ca domain name registrations. In the event of differences between the summary below and the text of the amended Agreement, the text of the Agreement will govern. SUMMARY OF CHANGES 1. The Registrant Agreement allows CIRA to notify you of changes to the Registrant Agreement that apply to domain name registrations by giving you notice by email and posting the changes on CIRA's website. The changes will not take effect until the later of least thirty (30) days of posting the amendments on CIRA's website (currently at http://www.cira.ca) and thirty (30) days after CIRA gives notice of such amendment to the Registrant and the Registrant's Registrar. (See section 10.1 of the Agreement.) 2. The Agreement has been amended to include, for the sake of clarity, definitions such as, "Account Information," "Activation," "Authorized Signing Representative," "CIRA Elections," and "Meetings" (See section 1.2). 3. Certain obsolete language has been deleted and some grammatical and typographical errors have been corrected throughout the document. 4. You are no longer permitted to transfer the Domain Name registration to another registrant or change your Registrar of Record for thirty (30) days from the time that the registration was activated, as defined in the Agreement (see section 2.2). 5. The Agreement clarifies that your Registrar has the ability to change the contact details for your administrative contact at any time, without having to go through the Change of Critical Information process, as set out in section 8.3 of the Registration Rules (http://www.cira.ca/en/doc_Registrar.html) and as amended in the "General Registration Rules", PROVIDED you have consented to this and granted this authority to your Registrar. (See section 2.6). 6. Your Registrar may request CIRA to cancel your Domain Name registration within seven (7) days of its activation, without your consent. (See sections 2.6, 6.2 and document entitled "Cancelling a New Registration Request Policy, Rules, and Procedures" (Version 1.0 - Effective Date: June 5, 2003)). 7. Your Registrar may cancel a renewal term for your Domain Name registration, if the renewal term has not yet commenced. (See section 2.6 and document entitled "Cancellation of Renewal Request policy, Rules, and Procedures" (Version 1.0 - Effective Date: June 5, 2003.)). 8. The Administrative Contact's role in relation to the Registrant has been clarified. For example, the Agreement has been changed to state that all CIRA notices to you, the Registrant, will ONLY be sent to your administrative contact email address, as listed in the Registration Information for the respective Domain Name Registration. (See section 2.7 and 2.8). 9. Also, certain limits to the authority granted to your administrative contact have been imposed. For instance, your administrative contact is no longer permitted to vote for you. As an individual Registrant, only the individual is permitted to vote at any CIRA elections and attend and vote at any CIRA members' meetings. When a Registrant is not an individual, someone in the organization who is a full-time employee and who has the authority to vote or has signing authority, that is not limited to CIRA Elections or Meetings, may vote during a CIRA board of director election or attend and vote at a CIRA members' meeting. (See section 2.9) 10. It has been now explicitly stated that it is your obligation to ensure that all fees payable to the Registrant's Registrar have been paid when they are due. Failure to pay the applicable fees to your current or former Registrar may result in cancellation, by CIRA, of your Domain Name registration. (See sections 3.1(n) and 6.4). 11. Also, the Agreement makes it clear that you are now also subject to the terms and conditions of the use of CIRA's website, as set out in the Legal Notice on CIRA's website (www.cira.ca) (see section 3.1(o)). 12. The Agreement has been modified to clarify what information can be used by CIRA on the WHOIS search. (See section 4.1). 13. The Agreement now clarifies that CIRA has the right to restrict your use of your Domain Name in accordance with applicable CIRA Policies, Rules, and Procedures (see section 6.1). 14. The Agreement has been amended to include situations where termination of the Agreement may occur if you amalgamate, change your name, or ceased to exist as the Person listed in the CIRA WHOIS database (see section 6.16(d)). 15. The Registrant notification process for changes to the Registrant Agreement has changed to indicate the CIRA is only required to send you notification that their have been changes to the agreement and not provide a summary of those changes to you. Instead, CIRA may send a notification to you that contains a link to a page on CIRA's website that provides you with a summary of the changes and access to a copy of the amended Agreement. 16. FOR A FULL TEXT OF THE AMENDED REGISTRANT AGREEMENT, (VERSION 1.4 – EFFECTIVE DATE JUNE 5, 2003) PLEASE SEE HTTP://WWW.CIRA.CA/EN/DOC_REGISTRAR.HTML. Thank you for your time and attention in this matter. Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) About CIRA CIRA is the not-for-profit corporation mandated to operate the dot-ca top-level domain for all Canadians. It is responsible for setting policy and managing the 335,000 dot-ca domain name database as well as registering domain names through its network of certified registrars. Additional information is available at www.cira.ca. CIRA will host the June 2003 meeting of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the world Internet governing body, from June 22 to 26, 2003, in Montreal. Visit www.icannmontreal.ca for more information. |