Updated 28th May 2007

Please read this agreement in its entirety. All users of our service will be bound by this agreement. This agreement applies to all domain name extensions. We may change this agreement from time to time. Your use of our Services after the date on which updates are stated shows your unconditional agreement to them as set out below.

Definition of Terms

The following words and expressions shall have meanings hereby assigned to them except where the context otherwise requires:

"1st Domains", "us", "we" and "our" means 1st Domains;

"Service", means your Domains Name registration and/or services provided by 1st Domains to customers subscribing for the same;

"Client" and "You" means the party or parties who enters into this agreement with 1st Domains

1. The Registrar's Obligations

We agree that we will:

1.1 disclose accurately and completely all our terms and conditions associated with your use of our        services to register and maintain a domain name sought to be used by you, including price and        billing information;

1.2 comply with your lawful directions in a diligent and timely manner regarding your domain name,       (for example, registration, cancellation, amendment, deletion, and associated technical support       and billing);

1.3 process any new domain name registrations with the applicable registry within 24 hours from the       time we receive all the information required to complete a registration if it is within our advertised       business hours of 8:30am-5:00pm Monday-Friday, and otherwise within 48 hours.

1.4 notify you of the registration of your domain name(s), including the details of: the domain name,       your contact details, our contact details, the registration period, your account id and password for       your domain name and your obligations as a registrant;

1.5 arrange for correction of any error in the information in the register about any domain name        registered to you when requested;

1.6 take all reasonable steps to safeguard and protect all information about you stored in our       databases and system(s);

1.7 comply with any order of any authority having jurisdiction regarding any domain name registered to        you;

1.8 use our best endeavours to deal with any complaints you may have about the services we provide        for you.

2. The Registrant's Obligations

You agree that you will:

2.1 comply with all applicable domain name policies. You agree that you have read and understood        the current policies;

2.2 make sure all information you give us is accurate and complete, keep us informed of changes to        any information you give us, and that you have the authority to enter into this agreement;

2.3 keep any security information that we give to you confidential, safe and secure;

2.4 satisfy yourself that your use of a domain name will not infringe anybody's intellectual property        rights and protect us, and everybody we are in any business relationship with to provide services to        you, from any such claim;

2.5 ensure that you only use our services for a lawful purpose;

2.6 ensure that the use of any domain name registered to you does not interfere with other users of the        Internet;

2.7 ensure that any order of any authority having jurisdiction regarding any domain name registered to        you is complied with;

2.8 protect us, and everybody we have a business relationship with, against any legal action taken        against us because of the receipt or use of our services by you or someone you are responsible        for, including reliance by us or anybody we have a business relationship with, on information        supplied by you.

Duties of Other Persons

2.9 You agree to make sure everyone you are responsible for or who uses a domain name registered        to you also meets the above duties.

3. Registration of a Domain Name

When a domain name is registered to you, or in your name as directed by you, then you agree:

3.1 that the following information becomes available to any member of the public:
       - your name,
       - your contact details and
       - the domain name, its commencement and expiry dates and addresses/details of the name          servers for it, and our name.

3.2 the domain name is registered in your name only because no other person has it according to the        records of the register; and

3.3 neither we nor anybody else is representing anything else to anybody regarding that domain        name. The entry of a domain name in the "who is" database shall not be taken as evidence of        anything other than such registration; and

3.4 that you protect us and everybody we have a business relationship with to provide services to you,        from any claim arising out of the domain name being registered in your name or as you direct.

3.5 If you choose at anytime to use the 1st Domains domain name parking service, you agree that 1st
       Domains may place advertising on your parking page and 1st Domains specifically reserves this
       right. 1st Domains also reserves the right to collect and retain all revenue obtained from
       such advertising. You may terminate your use of the domain name parking service at any time
       through your online Domain Name Manager.

4. Register is the Record

For all purposes the details shown in the register shall be treated as
correct and the authoritative record.

5. Payment of Fees

5.1 You agree to pay for the services we provide for you.

5.2 If you transfer a domain name registered to you to another registrant or to be managed by another        registrar, all charges owing to us shall become immediately due and payable on the date of that        transfer.

5.3 Our usual fees are for the domain name registrations and renewals, but we may also charge you        for web hosting and email services provided by us upon your request. We will tell you before any        additional charge is incurred.

5.4 Our prices are stated in New Zealand dollars and exclude GST. Customers who reside outside        New Zealand are exempt from paying GST.

5.5 If you fail to pay your bill for any services offered by 1st Domains excluding domain name       registrations and renewals, your service will be cancelled without notice and the outstanding       amount due will be recovered through our debt collection agency. Our debt collection agent may       charge you a fee equal to 25% of the unpaid portion of the bill, but not less than $21.50. Where the       total debt collection agency costs, legal and other costs arising from the collection of any owing       amount exceeds the debt collection fee charged, our debt collection agent is also entitled to       recover such additional costs from you.

6. Suspension And Refusal To Supply Services

If you do not pay our charges for a domain name registered to you we may:
- cancel registration of that domain name; or
- refuse to provide a service you request.

7. Cancellation of a Domain Name

If we are going to cancel the registration of a domain name registered to you as a result of you not paying our charges relating to that registration, we will give you fourteen days notice before we initiate action to cancel that domain name.

8. Exclusion of Liability

We exclude all liability we may have to you for any claim except where we have acted in bad faith. This exclusion also applies for the benefit of :

8.1 every officer, employee, contractor, agent of us

8.2 anyone else we get to perform our duties under any agreement you have with us.
       None of the persons specified above is liable or has to pay you for anything else in connection with        or resulting from anything any of us does or does not do, or delays in doing, whether or not it is        contemplated or authorised by any agreement you have with us. This exclusion applies whatever        you are claiming for and in whatever way liability might arise. This exclusion does not prevent you        getting a court order requiring us to do anything we have agreed to do for you and does not limit        any rights you may have under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993.

9. Limitation of our Liability

We have excluded all other liability we or any of the persons specified in clause 8 may have to you. If any of those persons is ever liable to you and, for any reason, cannot rely on the exclusion of liability set out in clause 8 then this clause applies. Where this clause applies, the maximum combined amount the persons specified above (together) will have to pay you and anyone else who uses the services we provide for you (together) is the amount of the last month's fee paid by you under this agreement.

10. Law and Jurisdiction Applying to this Agreement

Unless we otherwise agree in writing, this agreement contains 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. This will be the case until this agreement is cancelled except to the extent clause 14
says otherwise.

To the extent legally permitted:

10.1 all our services are provided under New Zealand law;

10.2 any claim or dispute arising out of or in connection with this agreement must be instituted within          60 days from the date the relevant service was supplied to you;

10.3 except as otherwise stated, you may take action against us only in a New Zealand court;

10.4 where you or any registrant for whom you act supplies incorrect information regarding a domain          name and we incur cost in any matter concerning that name then we may recover the costs          incurred by us from you.

11. Cancelling the Agreement

11.1 We may cancel or suspend this agreement by giving you one month's notice if you do not meet          your duties to us. We may end the agreement for any other reason by giving you one month's          notice.

12. More Than One Person

You are responsible for everybody who you permit to act for you as a registrant. We will take reasonable care to satisfy ourselves that you have permitted those persons to act for you.

13. Each Clause Separately Binding

Each clause of the agreement you have with us is separately binding. If for any reason we, you, or any of the persons specified in clause 8 cannot rely on any clause, all other clauses of it are binding.

14. Rights and Responsibilities that Continue

The cancelling of any agreement you have with us does not affect any rights and responsibilities, which are intended to continue or come into force afterwards. These include the rights and duties under 2, 4 - 10, 12 - 13, and this clause 14.