Upon signing up for Bananic's services, all customers
agree to comply with Bananic's Terms
of Use. The spirit of this
policy is to ensure our customers are using Bananic
's services with due regard to the rights of other
Internet users and in conformity with the requirements
of Bananic's network environment.
1. Purpose.
This Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
(the "Policy") has been adopted by the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"),
is incorporated by reference into your Registration
Agreement, and sets forth the terms and conditions
in connection with a dispute between you and any
party other than us (Bananic Corporation) over
the registration and use of an Internet domain
name registered by you. Proceedings under Paragraph
4 of this Policy will be conducted according to
the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Policy (the "Rules of Procedure"), and the selected
administrative-dispute-resolution service provider's
supplemental rules.
2. Your Representations.
By applying to register a domain name, or by asking
us to maintain or renew a domain name registration,
you hereby represent and warrant to us that (a)
the statements that you made in your Registration
Agreement are complete and accurate; (b) to your
knowledge, the registration of the domain name
will not infringe upon or otherwise violate the
rights of any third party; (c) you are not registering
the domain name for an unlawful purpose; and (d)
you will not knowingly use the domain name in
violation of any applicable laws or regulations.
It is your responsibility to determine whether
your domain name registration infringes or violates
someone else's rights.
3. Cancellations, Transfers,
and Changes.
We will cancel, transfer or otherwise make changes
to domain name registrations under the following
circumstances:
a. subject to the provisions of Paragraph 8, our
receipt of written or appropriate electronic instructions
from you or your authorised agent to take such
action;
b. our receipt of an order from a court or arbitral
tribunal, in each case of competent jurisdiction,
requiring such action; and/or c. our receipt of
a decision of an Administrative Panel requiring
such action in any administrative proceeding to
which you were a party and which was conducted
under this Policy or a later version of this Policy
adopted by ICANN. (See Paragraph 4(i) and (k)
below.) We may also cancel, transfer or otherwise
make changes to a domain name registration in
accordance with the terms of your Registration
Agreement or other legal requirements.
4. Mandatory Administrative
Proceeding.
This Paragraph sets forth the type of disputes
for which you are required to submit to a mandatory
administrative proceeding. These proceedings will
be conducted before one of the administrative-dispute-resolution
service providers listed at http://www.icann.org/udrp/approved-providers.htm
(each, a "Provider").
a. Applicable Disputes. You are required to
submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding
in the event that a third party (a "complainant")
asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance
with the Rules of Procedure, that
(i) your domain name is identical or confusingly
similar to a trademark or service mark in which
the complainant has rights; and
(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests
in respect of the domain name; and
(iii) your domain name has been registered and
is being used in bad faith. In the administrative
proceeding, the complainant must prove that each
of these three elements are present. b. Evidence
of Registration and Use in Bad Faith. For the
purposes of Paragraph
4(a)(iii), the following circumstances, in particular
but without limitation, if found by the Panel
to be present, shall be evidence of the registration
and use of a domain name in bad faith:
(i) circumstances indicating that you have registered
or you have acquired the domain name primarily
for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise
transferring the domain name registration to the
complainant who is the owner of the trademark
or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant,
for valuable consideration in excess of your documented
out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain
name; or
(ii) you have registered the domain name in order
to prevent the owner of the trademark or service
mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding
domain name, provided that you have engaged in
a pattern of such conduct; or
(iii) you have registered the domain name primarily
for the purpose of disrupting the business of
a competitor; or
(iv) by using the domain name, you have intentionally
attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet
users to your website or other online location,
by creating a likelihood of confusion with the
complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship,
affiliation, or endorsement of your website or
location or of a product or service on your website
or location.
c. How to Demonstrate Your Rights to and Legitimate
Interests in the Domain Name in Responding to
a Complaint. When you receive a complaint, you
should refer to Paragraph 5 of the Rules of Procedure
in determining how your response should be prepared.
Any of the following circumstances, in particular
but without limitation, if found by the Panel
to be proved based on its evaluation of all evidence
presented, shall demonstrate your rights or legitimate
interests to the domain name for purposes of Paragraph
4(a)(ii):
(i) before any notice to you of the dispute, your
use of, or demonstrable preparations to use, the
domain name or a name corresponding to the domain
name in connection with a bona fide offering of
goods or services; or
(ii) you (as an individual, business, or other
organisation) have been commonly known by the
domain name, even if you have acquired no trademark
or service mark rights; or
(iii) you are making a legitimate noncommercial
or fair use of the domain name, without intent
for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers
or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at
issue.
d. Selection of Provider. The complainant shall
select the Provider from among those approved
by ICANN by submitting the complaint to that Provider.
The selected Provider will administer the proceeding,
except in cases of consolidation as described
in Paragraph 4(f).
e. Initiation of Proceeding and Process and Appointment
of Administrative Panel. The Rules of Procedure
state the process for initiating and conducting
a proceeding and for appointing the panel that
will decide the dispute (the "Administrative Panel").
f. Consolidation. In the event of multiple disputes
between you and a complainant, either you or the
complainant may petition to consolidate the disputes
before a single Administrative Panel. This petition
shall be made to the first Administrative Panel
appointed to hear a pending dispute between the
parties. This Administrative Panel may consolidate
before it any or all such disputes in its sole
discretion, provided that the disputes being consolidated
are governed by this Policy or a later version
of this Policy adopted by ICANN.
g. Fees. All fees charged by a Provider in connection
with any dispute before an Administrative Panel
pursuant to this Policy shall be paid by the complainant,
except in cases where you elect to expand the
Administrative Panel from one to three panelists
as provided in Paragraph 5(b)(iv) of the Rules
of Procedure, in which case all fees will be split
evenly by you and the complainant.
h. Our Involvement in Administrative Proceedings.
We do not, and will not, participate in the administration
or conduct of any proceeding before an Administrative
Panel. In addition, we will not be liable as a
result of any decisions rendered by the Administrative
Panel.
i. Remedies. The remedies available to a complainant
pursuant to any proceeding before an Administrative
Panel shall be limited to requiring the cancellation
of your domain name or the transfer of your domain
name registration to the complainant.
j. Notification and Publication. The Provider
shall notify us of any decision made by an Administrative
Panel with respect to a domain name you have registered
with us. All decisions under this Policy will
be published in full over the Internet, except
when an Administrative Panel determines in an
exceptional case to redact portions of its decision.
k. Availability of Court Proceedings. The mandatory
administrative proceeding requirements set forth
in Paragraph 4 shall not prevent either you or
the complainant from submitting the dispute to
a court of competent jurisdiction for independent
resolution before such mandatory administrative
proceeding is commenced or after such proceeding
is concluded. If an Administrative Panel decides
that your domain name registration should be canceled
or transferred, we will wait ten (10) business
days (as observed in the location of our principal
office) after we are informed by the applicable
Provider of the Administrative Panel's decision
before implementing that decision. We will then
implement the decision unless we have received
from you during that ten (10) business day period
official documentation (such as a copy of a complaint,
file-stamped by the clerk of the court) that you
have commenced a lawsuit against the complainant
in a jurisdiction to which the complainant has
submitted under Paragraph 3(b)(xiii) of the Rules
of Procedure. (In general, that jurisdiction is
either the location of our principal office or
of your address as shown in our Whois database.
See Paragraphs 1 and 3(b)(xiii) of the Rules of
Procedure for details.) If we receive such documentation
within the ten (10) business day period, we will
not implement the Administrative Panel's decision,
and we will take no further action, until we receive
(i) evidence satisfactory to us of a resolution
between the parties;
(ii) evidence satisfactory to us that your lawsuit
has been dismissed or withdrawn; or
(iii) a copy of an order from such court dismissing
your lawsuit or ordering that you do not have
the right to continue to use your domain name.
5. All Other Disputes
and Litigation.
All other disputes between you and any party other
than us regarding your domain name registration
that are not brought pursuant to the mandatory
administrative proceeding provisions of Paragraph
4 shall be resolved between you and such other
party through any court, arbitration or other
proceeding that may be available.
6. Our Involvement in
Disputes.
We will not participate in any way in any dispute
between you and any party other than us regarding
the registration and use of your domain name.
You shall not name us as a party or otherwise
include us in any such proceeding. In the event
that we are named as a party in any such proceeding,
we reserve the right to raise any and all defenses
deemed appropriate, and to take any other action
necessary to defend ourselves.
7. Maintaining the Status
Quo.
We will not cancel, transfer, activate, deactivate
or otherwise change the status of any domain name
registration under this Policy except as provided
in Paragraph 3 above.
8. Transfers During
a Dispute.
a. Transfers of a Domain Name to a New Holder.
You may not transfer your domain name registration
to another holder (i) during a pending administrative
proceeding brought pursuant to Paragraph 4 or
for a period of fifteen (15) business days (as
observed in the location of our principal place
of business) after such proceeding is concluded;
or (ii) during a pending court proceeding or arbitration
commenced regarding your domain name unless the
party to whom the domain name registration is
being transferred agrees, in writing, to be bound
by the decision of the court or arbitrator. We
reserve the right to cancel any transfer of a
domain name registration to another holder that
is made in violation of this subparagraph. b.
Changing Registrars. You may not transfer your
domain name registration to another registrar
during a pending administrative proceeding brought
pursuant to Paragraph 4 or for a period of fifteen
(15) business days (as observed in the location
of our principal place of business) after such
proceeding is concluded. You may transfer administration
of your domain name registration to another registrar
during a pending court action or arbitration,
provided that the domain name you have registered
with us shall continue to be subject to the proceedings
commenced against you in accordance with the terms
of this Policy. In the event that you transfer
a domain name registration to us during the pendency
of a court action or arbitration, such dispute
shall remain subject to the domain name dispute
policy of the registrar from which the domain
name registration was transferred.
9. Policy Modifications.
We reserve the right to modify this Policy at
any time with the permission of ICANN. We will
post our revised Policy at least thirty (30) calendar
days before it becomes effective. Unless this
Policy has already been invoked by the submission
of a complaint to a Provider, in which event the
version of the Policy in effect at the time it
was invoked will apply to you until the dispute
is over, all such changes will be binding upon
you with respect to any domain name registration
dispute, whether the dispute arose before, on
or after the effective date of our change. In
the event that you object to a change in this
Policy, your sole remedy is to cancel your domain
name registration with us, provided that you will
not be entitled to a refund of any fees you paid
to us. The revised Policy will apply to you until
you cancel your domain name registration.
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