Domain Name Management Agreement
1. Introduction
1.1. This Domain Name Traffic Manager Agreement ("Agreement") governs the terms and conditions on which Fabulous.com Pty Ltd ACN 094 218 443 ("Fabulous.com ") agrees to provide you ("Domain Name Owner") with the services described in clause 2 of this Agreement ("Services") in regard to certain internet domain names owned or controlled by the Domain Name Owner ("Domains").
1.2. By using the Services, the Domain Name Owner acknowledges that they have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement (as amended by Fabulous.com in its sole and absolute discretion from time to time).
1.3. The Domain Name Owner acknowledges and agrees that Fabulous.com may in its sole and absolute discretion, suspend, cancel, or modify the Services or the Domain Name Owner's use of the Services at any time and without notice to the Domain Name Owner.
2. Domain Name Traffic Manager Services
2.1. Fabulous.com hereby agrees to provide the following services to the Domain Name Owner ("Services"):
(a) Hosting of the Domains on Fabulous.com's name servers;
(b) Redirecting the internet traffic from the Domains ("Domain Traffic Redirection Service") to the websites of third parties who have an existing commercial arrangement with Fabulous.com to purchase domain name traffic ("Fabulous Advertisers") or to the websites of third parties other than Fabulous Advertisers ("Independent Websites").
(c) The tracking, reporting and payment of revenue earned by the Domain Name Owner as a result of using the Domain Traffic Redirection Service;
(d) Domain name registrations and renewals at a discounted rate;
(e) Free domain name listing and classified service to facilitate the buying and selling of existing registered domain names ("Classified Service"); and
(f) Software, text, images and other content to enable custom websites to be created and hosted on the Domains (“Website Generation Services”).
2.2. For the purposes of this Agreement, acceptable internet traffic constitutes traffic resulting from a domain name type-in and/or organic search engine traffic. It is at the sole and absolute discretion of Fabulous.com as to any other forms of traffic that are regarded as acceptable.
2.3. Any website created or modified using the Website Generation Services (“Generated Websites”) shall at all times remain the property of Fabulous.com and all copyright and other legal and equitable rights in the Generated Websites shall vest with Fabulous.com.
3. Domain Traffic Redirection Service
3.1. The Domain Traffic Redirection Service shall be provided to the Domain Name Owner on the following terms and conditions:
(a) The Domain Name Owner shall not under any circumstances, provide consideration (whether monetary or otherwise) to any third party (whether directly or indirectly) to procure internet traffic by any means whatsoever to the Domains.
(b) The Domain Name Owner shall not under any circumstances use any frameset, landing page or other similar device when redirecting internet traffic from the Domains to Fabulous Advertisers offering payment for this traffic on a "per click" basis.
(c) The Domain Name Owner shall not under any circumstances attempt to redirect internet traffic to the Domains from any other domain names they own or control.
(d) The Domain Name Owner shall not under any circumstances, include hyperlinks to the Domain(s) or sub-domains of the Domain(s):
(i) On or in any website(s) owned or controlled by the Domain Name Owner, or
(ii) On or in any electronic mail message (including both unsolicited and "opt-in" or permission email), newsgroup, message board, banner network, counter, chat room, guest book, IRC channel or on or through any other similar device or facility.
(e) The Domain Name Owner shall not under any circumstances, procure or forward Unqualified Internet Traffic to the Domains. For the purpose of this Agreement, “Unqualified Internet Traffic” means traffic acquired from Incentivized Links or Unauthorised Clicks or from any other source that contains content that does not have a logical and apparent connection with the relevant domain name. “Incentivized Links” shall mean those links accompanied by any representation which encourages individual users to click on the link in order to earn money, points or any other reward. "Unauthorised Clicks" means clicks generated by a Domain Name Owner, the Domain Name Owner's agents and/or the Domain Name Owner's Relative (being the spouse, parent or remoter lineal ancestor, son, daughter or remoter issue, or brother or sister of the Domain Name Owner) to procure internet traffic to the Domain Name Owner's Domains.
(f) Fabulous.com reserves the right to determine in its sole and absolute discretion, that traffic from the Domains is Unqualified Internet Traffic. In the event that such a determination is made, Fabulous.com may immediately upon notifying the Domain Name Owner (in writing or via email) of its determination, suspend or terminate the Domain Traffic Redirection Service in relation to the offending Domains or suspend or terminate the Services altogether. The Domain Name Owner shall not be entitled to receive any commissions or others amount derived from Unqualified Internet Traffic.
(g) If the Domain Name Owner agrees to use the Fabulous.com Suggested Phrase/Related Links service for the Domains subject to the Domain Traffic Redirection Service, they shall be responsible to ensure that they submit relevant Phrases and/or Terms. For the purposes of this Agreement, Phrases and/or Terms shall be relevant only if they relate to goods or services that have a logical and apparent connection with the Domain(s), so that it could reasonably be expected that individual users comprising the traffic from the Domain(s) would be interested in acquiring the goods or services of the relevant Fabulous Advertisers or the Independent Websites to whom the traffic is sent.
(h) The Domain Name Owner shall be responsible for categorizing each of the Domains to ensure that the traffic from the Domains is sent to the Appropriate Fabulous Advertisers. For the purposes of this Agreement, the Appropriate Fabulous Advertisers shall be those Fabulous Advertisers that provide goods or services that have a logical and apparent connection with the relevant Domain, so that it could reasonably be expected that individual users comprising the traffic from the relevant Domain would be interested in acquiring the goods and services of the Fabulous Advertisers to whom the traffic is sent.
(i) Fabulous.com reserves the right to determine in its sole and absolute discretion, that the traffic from one or more of the Domains is not being redirected to the Appropriate Fabulous Advertisers. In the event that such a determination is made, Fabulous.com may immediately upon notifying the Domain Name Owner (in writing or via email) of its determination, redirect the traffic from the relevant domain name to those Fabulous Advertisers it chooses (in its sole and absolute discretion) until such time as the Domain Name Owner and Fabulous.com reach an agreement (in writing or email) regarding who the Appropriate Fabulous Advertisers for the relevant domain name are.
(j) Fabulous.com reserves the right to determine in its sole and absolute discretion whether the Phrases and/or Terms submitted by the Domain Name Owner when utilizing the Fabulous.com Suggested Phrase/Related Links service are relevant. A determination by Fabulous.com that the Phrases and/or Terms for the Domain(s) are relevant does not necessarily mean that they have been approved by the Fabulous Advertisers or the Independent Websites, and as such, Fabulous.com reserves the right to modify, remove or replace these Phrases and/or Terms at any time.
4. Fabulous.com Domain Name Registration Services
4.1. By registering and or renewing domain names with Fabulous.com, the Domain Name Owner acknowledges that they have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Fabulous.com Domain Name Registration Agreement located at http://www.fabulous.com/informationcenter/index.htm?formdata[qid]=269
5. Dark Blue Affiliate Services
5.1. By using the Domain Traffic Redirection Service for the purposes of sending traffic to Fabulous Advertisers, the Domain Name Owner shall be deemed to be an "Affiliate" as that term is defined in the Dark Blue Affiliate Program Agreement located at: http://www.darkblue.com/index.htm?mainPage=1§ion=aff_tc (“Affiliate Program Agreement”) so far as is relevant. The Domain Name Owner hereby acknowledges that they have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Affiliate Program Agreement, so far as is relevant.
6. Prohibited use of Domains
6.1. The Domain Name Owner hereby warrants and covenants that:
(a) The Domain(s) shall not be used in such a way as to mislead or deceive minors into viewing sexually explicit material, whether in breach of the provisions of H.R.939 "Truth in Domain Names Act" or otherwise ("Misleading Activity");
(b) The Domain(s) shall not be redirected to Independent Website(s) that contain material or content (or links to such content) that:
(i) Is hateful, defamatory, derogatory or bigoted based on racial, ethnic, political grounds or may otherwise injure, damage or cause harm of any kind to any person or entity;
(ii) Is threatening or invades another person's privacy or property rights or is otherwise in breach of a duty owed to a third party;
(iii) Depicts minors engaged in any activity of a sexual nature or which may otherwise harm minors;
(iv) Infringes the registered trademark, copyright, patent rights, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of a third party;
(v) Violates any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation;
(vi) Promotes, is involved in or assists in, the conduct of illegal activity of any kind or promotes business opportunities or investments which are not permitted under law;
(vii) Advertises or offers for sale any goods or services that are unlawful or in breach of any national or international law or regulation; or
(viii) Advertises or offers for sale any goods or services the Advertiser does not have the legal right to sell,
(collectively referred to as "Illegal Activities").
6.2. Fabulous.com does not condone the use of the Domain(s) for or in connection with any Misleading Activity or Illegal Activity and reserves the right to report such activities to the relevant legal enforcement agencies if it determines in its sole and absolute discretion that the Domain(s) are being used in such manner.
6.3. Domain Names with an Australian connection
In relation to any Domain(s) that are .com.au second level domain names or top level domain names which includes any word or phrase which may be reasonably be interpreted as intended to target internet users located in Australia ("Australian Domain(s)"), the Domain Name Owner hereby warrants and covenants that the Domain Name Owner shall not under any circumstances, redirect internet traffic (either directly or indirectly) from any Australian Domain(s) to website(s) that contain content (or links to such content) that involves the provision or promotion of gambling or gaming activities (whether or not such activities are legal or illegal in the jurisdiction in which the activities are conducted).
7. Indemnity
7.1. The Domain Name Owner shall remain solely responsible for and liable in respect of all acts and omission related to redirecting traffic from the Domain(s) to Independent Website(s).
7.2. Under no circumstances shall Fabulous.com be responsible or liable for the acts or omissions of the Domain Name Owner in relation to redirecting traffic from the Domain(s) to the Independent Website(s), nor for the material or content on the Independent Websites.
7.3. The Domain Name Owner hereby agrees to indemnify, keep indemnified and forever hold harmless, Fabulous.com and the Affiliates, and their 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 in connection with the use of the Services.
8. Monitoring of Traffic Quality
8.1. The traffic generated by the Domain(s) will be continuously monitored by Fabulous.com to ensure that traffic that is being sent through to the advertisers is of an acceptable standard so as to protect Advertisers, other domain name owners using the Services and the integrity of the network.
8.2. Fabulous.com reserves the right to immediately suspend, cancel or modify the Services in relation to a particular Domain upon giving notice to the Domain Name Owner, if it determines in its sole and absolute discretion that the quality of the traffic from the Domain is not of an acceptable standard.
9. Prohibited Domain Traffic
9.1. The Domain(s) or links to the Domain(s) whether direct or indirect, shall not be displayed on or in newsgroups, message boards, electronic mail messages (including both unsolicited and "opt-in" or permission based e-mail, banner networks, counters, toolbars, chat rooms, guest books, IRC channels or any similar devices ("Prohibited Traffic").
9.2. Traffic generated by the Domain(s) as a result of adware, spyware, viruses, Trojans or any similar program installed on the Visitor's computer shall as be deemed to be Prohibited Traffic.
9.3. Fabulous.com reserves the right to immediately suspend, cancel or modify the Services in relation to a particular Domain upon given notice to the Domain Name Owner, if it determines in its sole and absolute discretion that any traffic from the Domain(s) is Prohibited Traffic, whether caused by the actions of the Domain Name Owner or a previous owner of the Domain(s).
10. Suspension, Cancellation or Modification of Services
10.1. Fabulous.com may in its sole and absolute discretion, suspend, cancel or modify the Services, without notice to the Domain Name Owner, if Fabulous.com has reasonable grounds to believe the use of the Domain(s) is in breach of this Agreement.