Terms & Conditions

For all purposes in these Terms and Conditions, "OnlyDomains" is the trading name and website operated by Centralnic NZ Ltd - NZ Company Number: 5846027.
These Terms and Conditions, together with the applicable country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) Policies constitutes the entire agreement between OnlyDomains and domain name registrant (owner of the registration).
Prior to registration of a Domain Name or the transfer of any Domain Name to OnlyDomains as the Registrar of record, OnlyDomains requires you to have accepted these terms and the applicable ccTLD Policies.

Terminology

Following are definitions of terms used in these Terms and Conditions.

• Approved OnlyDomains Provider

  An organization which provides registration services to Registrants upon the terms of a Approved OnlyDomains Provider contract with OnlyDomains.

• Acceptable Use Policy

  Our Acceptable Use Policy is referred to as (AUP). Our Acceptable Use Policy may be found online at: Only Domains AUP

• Domain Name

  Any domain name registered through OnlyDomains as the Registrar of record.

• Domain Name Services

  Any Domain Name registration, renewal and other services associated with a Domain Name.

• Email Address

  An email address provided by OnlyDomains in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

• Hosted Website

  A Registrant's website that is hosted by OnlyDomains in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

• Registrant

  An individual or organisation whose Domain Name is registered with OnlyDomains. A Registrant is also referred to as the "Name Holder" of the Domain Name.

• Register

  The central listing of Domain Names managed and maintained by Registry.

• Relevant Party

  Includes each of the following parties:

  • OnlyDomains, the Registry and any other entity with whom any of the preceding parties is in a business relationship;
  • every officer, employee, contractor, agent of any entity specified above
  • anyone else that OnlyDomains may procure to perform any obligations or duties of OnlyDomains under any agreement you have with OnlyDomains.

• Services

  Domain Name Services and/or Web and Email Services.

• SRS

  Shared Registry System. The system used by the Registry to receive and action Domain Name registration applications and other requests.

• Web and Email Services

  Any web services or email services offered or provided by OnlyDomains in addition to Domain Name Services.

• You

  The Registrant of the Domain Name.

Your obligations

You agree that:

1. You have read and understand these Terms and Conditions and the relevant ccTLD Policies, and agree to be bound by them.
2. You have and will satisfy yourself that the use (whether directly or indirectly) of the Domain Name will not infringe the legal rights (including, without limitation, the intellectual property rights) of any third party. You agree to protect each Relevant Party from any such claim.
3. You will make sure all information you give OnlyDomains is accurate and complete, keep OnlyDomains informed of changes to any information you give us, and that you have the authority to enter in to this agreement.
4. You will only use the Services for lawful purposes.
5. You will ensure that any Domain Name registered by you does not interfere with other users of the Internet.
6. You will comply with any orders of any authority having jurisdiction in relation to the Services.
7. All registered Domain Names must be hosted on at least two pre-configured domain name servers and you are responsible for at all times meeting this obligation.
8. You will keep the Registrant ID, and any passwords associated with the Domain Name, together with any other security provided to you in connection with the Domain Name ("Password Information"), confidential, safe and secure. OnlyDomains is not responsible for the misuse of any Password Information whether by yourself, or, by any other person (including, without limitation, any employee or contractor of OnlyDomains).

You warrant that:

1. You are an identifiable individual over the age of 18 years of age, or, a legally constituted organisation.
2. Any person or legal entity which uses the Domain Name complies with the obligations set out in clause 1.1 above.
3. In respect of a Restricted Domain Name, you meet and will continue to meet for the period of the Restricted Domain Name registration the eligibility criteria contained in the Restriction Policies.

You acknowledge that:

1. OnlyDomains must adhere to the relevant registry Policies and any instructions received from time to time from the DNC and InternetNZ and from other respective regulatory authorities. Accordingly, you agree that OnlyDomains is entitled to take all actions that may be reasonably necessary or prudent to comply with the relevant ccTLD Policies or any such instructions received from time to time from the registries without incurring any liability to you or any person for whom you are responsible.
2. Additional conditions may apply for the registration and/or administration of any domain name in the .NZ name space including a requirement to also acknowledge the NZ Core Terms and Conditions. The NZ Core Terms and Conditions will apply to the following domain name extensions including:

   • .NZ

   • .CO.NZ

   • .AC.NZ

   • .GEEK.NZ

   • .GEN.NZ

   • .KIWI.NZ

   • .MAORI.NZ

   • .NET.NZ

   • .ORG.NZ

   • .SCHOOL.NZ

   • And for any future .NZ domain name extensions offered by the Domain Name Commission.

   You also acknowledge that any conditions detailed within the NZ Core Terms and Conditions be found to be in conflict with any conditions identified in OnlyDomains general Terms and Conditions, any such conditions as found in the NZ Core Terms and Condition shall prevail.
3. OnlyDomains validates new customers for the purpose of filtering potential fraudulent orders. Accordingly, you agree that if you are a new customer, OnlyDomains is under no obligation fulfill your order until your account has passed our validation test. You also agree that we are not bound by our obligations to fulfill your order until your account has been successfully validated.

Your Obligations Regarding Web and Email Services

You agree that:

1. You will perform all tasks and responsibilities requested of you by OnlyDomains in respect of the Web and Email Services.
2. You will ensure that any Hosted Website and any email sent or received from or by an Email Address:
   1. does not infringe any intellectual property rights of any person;
   2. does not contain any material which is obscene, offensive, upsetting, defamatory, insulting, abusive or in any way unsuitable for persons under the age of 18 years;
   3. is not comprised or is not used for any unlawful purpose or activity.
3. You will comply with the requirements of any restriction or exclusion relating to any Web and Email Service notified to you by OnlyDomains from time to time.
4. OnlyDomains may modify, enhance or withdraw any Web and Email Service by posting notice on the OnlyDomains Website 30 days before the change is to take effect.
5. OnlyDomains does not provide website maintenance services in respect of any Hosted Website. Without limiting this exclusion, you also agree that OnlyDomains accepts no responsibility for any deficiency or inaccuracy in any Hosted Website that is attributable to defects in that website.
6. You will read and agree to be bound by our AUP.
7. Your use of Titan Email packages purchased through OnlyDomains.com is governed by the Titan Email Terms and Conditions, Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Policy.

OnlyDomains's Obligations

When providing any Domain Name Services, OnlyDomains will:

1. Comply with all relevant ccTLD Policies and accurately represent these Policies to you.
2. Disclose accurately and completely all the terms and conditions (including price and billing information) associated with the provision of the registration of a Domain Name to you, and the maintenance of the Domain Name sought to be used by you.
3. Comply with your lawful directions in a diligent and timely manner regarding the Domain Name (including, without limitation, relating to registration, cancellation, amendment, deletion and associated technical support and billing).
4. Process any Domain Name registrations with the Register within 72 hours from the time that OnlyDomains receives all the information required to complete the registration.
5. Notify you of the registration of the Domain Name including the details of the Domain Name, your contact details, OnlyDomains's contact details, the registration period and the passwords for the Domain Name.
6. Arrange for correction of any error in the information in the register about the registered Domain Name when requested by you.
7. Provide the password for the Domain Name to you, or to someone that OnlyDomains reasonably believes is acting on your behalf, when requested and at no charge. We agree to take reasonable care to satisfy ourselves that you have permitted that person to act on behalf of you.
8. Use your personal information only as authorised by you and otherwise, in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
9. Take all reasonable commercial steps to safeguard and protect all information about you stored in OnlyDomains's databases and systems.
10. Comply with any order or authority having jurisdiction regarding the Domain Name registered to you.
11. Use best endeavours to deal with any complaints you may have about the Domain Name Services.

Registration of a Domain Name

You agree that:

1. Registration of a Domain Name by OnlyDomains is carried out on a "first come, first served" basis.
2. Registration of a Domain Name confers no property or ownership rights to that Domain Name.
3. Upon the registration of a Domain Name by you, your contact details, the Domain Name, its commencement and expiry date, the address and details of the nameservers for the Domain Name and OnlyDomains's name becomes publicly available to any member of the public.
4. The Domain Name is registered in your name only because no other person has it according to the records of the Register.
5. The entry of a domain name in the "whois" database will not be taken as evidence of anything other than the registration of the Domain Name.
6. OnlyDomains will not become involved (whether directly or indirectly) in any dispute pertaining to the Domain Name and where a conflict arises between Name Holders or prospective Registrants about the Domain Name registration, those parties must resolve the issue independently of OnlyDomains.
7. The details held in the Register shall be treated as correct and as the authoritative record.
8. OnlyDomains does not accept any responsibility for the content of a Name Holder's website and OnlyDomains shall not be obliged to enforce the removal of content from a website unless it has been instructed by a Court Order to do so.
9. Confirmation of your order does not guarantee that the domain name has been successfully registered. We will not accept any responsibility, nor provide any guarantee that the domain name has been successfully registered until we receive registration confirmation from the registry. When a domain name has been successfully registered, a confirmation email will be sent to you confirming the successful registration.
10. The availability and price information we return for a given domain name is an indicator only, based on the information available to our systems at the time of checks and dependent on third-party systems. As such we cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or inaccuracy of availability and pricing checks.
11. In the event a given domain name is unavailable for registration or has been assigned a higher ('premium') cost by the registry operator, we will contact you regarding your wishes and your options relating to any payment already made to us for this order
12. Upon the domain name passing its expiry date, we may initiate a transfer lock on the domain name record.
13. Upon the domain name passing its expiry date, the use of the domain name may be interrupted by a DNS hold or be re-directed to a third-party for advertising purposes.
14. The transfer lock and/or domain name interruption may be removed by you by choosing to renew the domain name or requesting that we immediately delete the domain name.
15. The conditions listed above on Points 12, 13, and 14 under Registration of a Domain name will not apply for the following extensions: .NZ, .CO.NZ, .AC.NZ, .GEEK.NZ, .GEN.NZ, .KIWI.NZ, .MAORI.NZ, .NET.NZ, .ORG.NZ, .SCHOOL.NZ
16. You agree to keep all passwords and access data received from OnlyDomains or generated yourself for access to our services confidential and to inform OnlyDomains once you receive any information about third parties gaining access to your passwords or account. You acknowledge that you are responsible for any orders or statements issued with your user identification and that you bear the risk of unauthorised use of your access details. Should unauthorised third parties use services of OnlyDomains while using your account, you are responsible for all fees and damages. OnlyDomains may lock access to your account if there is sufficient reason to assume it is used by unauthorised parties. OnlyDomains will inform you without delay of any such measure.

Management of gTLD Domain Name

DESIGNATED AGENT FOR REGISTRANT CHANGES AND/OR DOMAIN NAME TRANSFERS FOR gTLDs

You agree and authorise OnlyDomains to act as your "Designated Agent" with respect to the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registrars/transfers-en) for all gTLD domains.

You agree that when we act as your "Designated Agent" we have the explicit authority to approve and accept each "Change of Registrant" (as per the IRTP) on your behalf, whether this change represents a change from your Registrant information or to your Registrant information, and will do so in all instances. You also agree accept that authorising us to act as your Designated Agent is a condition of registering or managing your domain with OnlyDomains.

Domain Free Parking

OnlyDomains provides a free parking service to the owner of the domain in order to publicise the Domain name to third parties, and in no way endorses any meaning it may have for visitors. Any links that may appear on this page are provided by a third-party for advertising purposes and have not been chosen nor specifically approved by OnlyDomains. If you wish to remove this page please advise us.

Web and Email Services

1. If OnlyDomains provides you with Hosting services, you may obtain any Web and Email Service from OnlyDomains in connection with the Domain Name. You agree on your own behalf, and on behalf of the Registrant if you are acting as the agent of the Registrant that the Web and Email Services are not available for Name Holders of Moderated Domain Names.
2. OnlyDomains will endeavour to provide the Web and Email Services with due care and skill, however, OnlyDomains does not guarantee the availability of the Web and Email Services. OnlyDomains will remedy any unavailability of the Web and Email Services as soon as it is able but does not guarantee that any unavailability will be resolved outside OnlyDomains's trading hours. In addition, OnlyDomains does not guarantee that any Web and Email Service will be:
   1. interruption or fault free or that any faults or errors will be corrected;
   2. available at any particular time or location; available, or available without change, for any minimum period of time;
   3. secure or private;
   4. free of viruses or other harmful features.
3. OnlyDomains does not provide any service level targets with any of our hosting plans unless previously agreed to in writing. In the absence of such service levels we do not guarantee performance levels of our hosted Web and Email services.
4. OnlyDomains will use best endeavours to notify you of any scheduled maintenance times which may also affect the performance of our Web and Email hosting services.
5. OnlyDomains will provide regular backup services for your Web and Email hosting services however these backup services will be performed at our own discretion. Any such backups will not be customized in accordance with your own requirements.

Cancellation of a Domain Name or a Web and/or Email Service

1. You may cancel a Domain Name or any Web and Email Service at any time by notifying OnlyDomains in writing. You agree that:
   1. on receipt of such notice, OnlyDomains will cancel the relevant Domain Name and/or cancel the relevant Web and Email Service; and
   2. OnlyDomains will have no liability to you whatsoever in relation to such deletion and/or cancellation.
2. OnlyDomains may, in its sole discretion, cancel a Domain Name and any additional services such as Web and Email Services provided to you by OnlyDomains in respect of that Domain Name upon 14 days' notice where you fail to pay any fees that are due to OnlyDomains.
3. Either party may terminate this agreement and cancel the Domain Name on one month's written notice to the other party.

Fees

You agree that:

1. Where you have appointed an Approved OnlyDomains Provider to manage your Domain Name, and the Approved OnlyDomains Provider provides you with billing services, the fees payable for any Domain Name Service, and the payment terms for that Domain Name Service, will be as agreed between you and the Approved OnlyDomains Provider; or
2. Where you have elected to manage your own Domain Name, or have appointed an Approved OnlyDomains Provider to manage your Domain Name which does not supply billing services to you:
   1. the fees for any Domain Name Service or any Web and Email Service are as set out in the relevant 'pricing' pages of the OnlyDomains website; and
   2. if OnlyDomains is required to incur additional charges in connection with the provision of any Domain Name Service or Web and Email Service to you, we will notify you prior to incurring any such additional charge;
   3. you will pay the fees for any Domain Name Service or any Web and Email Service to OnlyDomains in accordance with the payment terms set out on the OnlyDomains Website at the time the Domain Name and/or Web and Email Service application is submitted to OnlyDomains, or, as otherwise specified on the OnlyDomains Website or these Terms and Conditions;
   4. OnlyDomains may alter any fees set out in this clause at any time on 30 days prior written notice; and
   5. the payment terms related to any Domain Name Service and/or OnlyDomains Service include the following:
      1. All fees are payable in advance unless specified otherwise.
      2. All fees are non-refundable, unless stated otherwise in our Refund Policy
      3. A renewal fee is payable in respect of the renewal of each Domain Name registration.
      4. OnlyDomains has no obligation to record the registration of any Domain Name if OnlyDomains has not received the applicable fees for that Domain Name.
      5. Failure to pay the domain name renewal fee in respect of a Domain Name registration will result in cancellation of that domain name registration
      6. If you transfer the Domain Name to another entity or Registrar all charges owing to OnlyDomains as at the date of the transfer are immediately due for payment.
      7. Any amounts payable by a Registrant as a result of exceeding email or website limits will be charged monthly in arrears and will be due by the date specified on the invoice.
   6. OnlyDomains has the discretionary right to refund in part or in full any non-refundable fees where Instra Corporation has confirmed in writing the existence of such a billing irregularity, and
   7. OnlyDomains may require you to return signed documentation before exercising its discretionary right to process a refund
3. All fees paid to OnlyDomains are non-refundable. However, where you pay for registration of a Domain Name and that Domain Name is not accepted for registration through no fault of your own, then OnlyDomains will provide a credit to your account for an amount equivalent to the unused third party registration fees that you have paid. You will be entitled to use that credit towards payment of fees for registration of an alternative Domain Name or towards payment for any other Services that OnlyDomains provides to you, provided that you apply the credit within 365 days of the credit being loaded onto your account. If you have not applied the credit within 365 days of it being loaded onto your account, the credit will be forfeited.

Exclusions and Limitations of Liability

1. OnlyDomains does not investigate whether or not any Registrant is entitled to register or hold any rights in a Domain Name or request any Web and Email Services, except for ccTLDs where such investigation is required by the policy set out by the relevant registry.
2. By registering a Domain Name, OnlyDomains is not acknowledging that any person has any rights in the name or words comprised in the Domain Name and does not authorise any person to use the Domain Name in the course of trade.
3. You agree that no Relevant Party will have any liability to you for any claim arising from any breach of this agreement by a Relevant Party or any act or omission of any Relevant Party except where any Relevant Party has acted in bad faith.
4. You agree that where a Relevant Party has acted in bad faith, or where OnlyDomains has acted negligently, the liability of such party to you will be capped to the amount of the fees paid by you to OnlyDomains in the month immediately prior to the event of liability in respect of the Domain Name.
5. All conditions and warranties, which may be implied by law into this contract, are excluded except to the extent that it would be unlawful to do so. You agree that this clause 10.4 is for the benefit of each Relevant Party.

Indemnities

1. You indemnify and hold harmless OnlyDomains on its own behalf, and as agent for each other Relevant Party, from and against all liability or loss, cost, expense or damage (including reasonable attorneys fees) incurred or sustained as a result of, or in connection with:
   1. any claim or dispute pertaining to the registration of the Domain Name, whether in your name or in such name as you direct;
   2. any claim that the manner in which the Domain Name or other Service is directly or indirectly used by you or anyone for whom you are responsible infringes the legal rights of any third party;
   3. any other claim relating to the use by you or anyone for whom you are responsible, of the Domain Name, or any service provided to you under these Terms and Conditions; or
   4. any claim arising in relation to the content or operation of any Hosted Website (other than claims caused by OnlyDomains's breach of these Terms and Conditions); and provided that, you shall not be required to indemnify and hold harmless OnlyDomains for any claims arising from OnlyDomains' negligence or bad faith.

Notices

1. Any notice to be given by OnlyDomains under these Terms and Conditions or in relation to any services provided by OnlyDomains will be in writing sent to the email address recorded in the Register in respect of the relevant domain name or by posting the relevant information on OnlyDomains's website. Such notice shall be deemed to have been given at the time it is sent by OnlyDomains.

General

1. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, these Terms and Conditions contain all the terms of our relationship and continues to apply no matter where you are located at the time any of the Services are provided or where you reside, and shall continue to apply until these Terms and Conditions are cancelled or terminated, except as otherwise stated in these Terms and Conditions.
2. OnlyDomains may transfer its rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions to any third party upon prior written notice to you.
3. If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held to be unenforceable in whole or in part all other provisions contained herein shall continue to be valid and enforceable.
4. Each provision of these Terms and Conditions is separately binding on OnlyDomains. If, for any reason, you, any Relevant Party cannot rely on any applicable provision in these Terms and Conditions, all other applicable provisions in these Terms and Conditions shall nonetheless be binding.
5. To the extent permitted, the parties agree that:
   1. any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions must be brought within 60 days from the date on which the event giving rise to the dispute or claim occurred;
   2. where you or any Registrant for whom you are acting as agent supplies incorrect information regarding a Domain Name and OnlyDomains incurs costs in any matter concerning that Domain Name, OnlyDomains may recover those costs from you.
6. The cancellation or termination of these Terms and Conditions will not affect any rights or obligations that have arisen prior to such cancellation or termination of these Terms and Conditions, and which by their nature survive (or should survive) the cancellation or termination, including, without limitation, any warranties, indemnities and limitations of liability provisions.

Changes to Terms and Conditions

1. OnlyDomains reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time by thirty days' prior written notice to you ("Relevant Notice Period"). You agree that your use of any Domain Name or other Service following the expiry of the Relevant Notice Period will constitute your acceptance of the modified Terms and Conditions. In some circumstances it may not be possible to provide a 30 day notice period, however in these circumstances we will endeavour to provide you with as much notice as possible.

Termination or Expiry of these Terms and Conditions

1. Where the Registrant transfers its Domain Name from OnlyDomains to another Registrar in accordance with the relevant ccTLD Policies and these Terms and Conditions, the parties agree that these Terms and Conditions will terminate effective from the date of such transfer.
2. The parties agree that these Terms and Conditions will terminate on the effective date of the cancellation of the Registrant's Domain Name (and associated Web and Email Services) in accordance with the terms specified in the Cancellation of a Domain Name or a Web and/or Email Service Section of these Terms and Conditions.
3. The parties agree that these Terms and Conditions will expire where the Registrant's Domain Name licence expires and is not renewed by the Registrant prior to the deletion of the Domain Name.

Compliance With Local Laws

OnlyDomains makes no representations or warranties that the products of services provided on our web site are appropriate for every country or jurisdiction. Regardless of which jurisdiction you are domiciled on, some products, or services, or web content may be considered illegal. Anyone who orders or uses products or services provided on the OnlyDomains web site must ensure that they comply with all local laws, rules and regulations. For country code top level domain names, it is your responsibility to ensure you comply with the local laws of that respective country.

Jurisdiction (Governing Law)

Except for disputes governed by the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (uDRP) Policy, this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of New Zealand, without regard to conflict of laws principles. You agree that any action relating to or arising out of this Agreement shall be brought before a recognized arbitrator or law court of New Zealand, and you hereby consent to jurisdiction and venue in the Commonwealth of New Zealand.

Survival

The titles and headings of this Agreement are for convenience and ease of reference only and shall not be utilized in any way to construe or interpret the agreement of the parties as otherwise set forth herein. If a court of competent jurisdiction holds any provision (or portion of a provision) of this Agreement to be illegal, invalid, or otherwise unenforceable, the remaining provisions (or portions of provisions) of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby and shall be found to be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

You hereby consent to any and all such disclosures and use of information provided by you in connection with the registration of a domain name (including any updates to such information), whether during or after the term of your registration of the domain name. You hereby irrevocably waive any and all claims and causes of action you may have arising from such disclosure or use of your domain name registration information by OnlyDomains.

You may access your domain name registration information in our possession to review, modify or update such information, by accessing our domain manager service, or similar service, made available by us through your Reseller.

OnlyDomains will not process data about any identified or identifiable natural person that it obtain from you in a way incompatible with the purposes and other limitations which are describe in these terms and conditions of service.

OnlyDomains will take reasonable precautions to protect the information it obtains from you from OnlyDomains’s loss, misuse, unauthorized accessor disclosure, alteration or destruction of that information.

ACCEPTANCE OF AGREEMENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF THE SERVICE AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT, GUARANTEE OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.