Re: Registration Agreement Problem with Jurisdiction Clause

From: Charles Daminato (chuck@opensrs.org)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 13:13:48 EDT


You likely won't "necessarily" have to travel to Ontario, I believe the
clause means "using the laws of Ontario"...

Now - I'm not a lawyer. This conversation is best kept on the policy-list
- as there's likely persons there more familiar with the litigious nature
of this request.

I'd ask a lawyer to be sure :)

Lance Woodson wrote:
>
> Has anyone else received an email such as this?:
>
> -----
> I was progressing through the registration process on your site to
> register a domain name when I found a clause that suggested that if
> there was a complaint about the name of my domain, I must settle the
> issue in the province on Ontario. Since I live in the United States, I
> can't go fight for something in Ontario. Did I misread that or is that
> your policy?
> -----
>
> Any ideas on how to calm their fears?
>
> Thanks,
> Lance

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Charles Daminato OpenSRS Support Manager chuck@opensrs.org



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