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Changes To Terms And Conditions

6th November 2008

As a result of Nominet's transfer in procedure being amended, we hereby give you notice in accordance with General Provisions, Clause 1d of our Business Terms and Conditions, and Clause 1e of our Consumer Terms and Conditions that the following amendments will be effective from 0.00am on Wednesday, 26 November 2008:

Schedule A, Clause 7 (g) to be replaced with the following wording:

"Where a .uk domain is transferred to us, it is your responsibility to ensure you have an account with us and you have followed our .uk transfer in process in order for us to be able to accept and complete the domain transfer on your behalf. We cannot be held responsible for any domain name(s) that is/are rejected when you have not completed the .uk transfer in process through your account with us. If at any time the domain name needs to be removed from the account created and placed in another account with us (ie a reseller's account) then we will require authorisation from the legal registrant for the domain name for this to occur."

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To clarify our internal Registrar Transfer process, we hereby give you notice in accordance with General Provisions, Clause 1d of our Business Terms and Conditions, and Clause 1e of our Consumer Terms and Conditions that the following amendments will be effective from 0.00am on Wednesday, 26 November 2008:

Schedule A, Clause 2 (e) the following paragraph to be added at the end:

"You acknowledge that by us performing a Registrar Transfer, the domain name(s) will be blocked from transferring to any other domain name registrar for a period of 60 days from the date the transfer is completed."

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To clarify our auto renew process, we hereby give you notice in accordance with General Provisions, Clause 1d of our Business Terms and Conditions, and Clause 1e of our Consumer Terms and Conditions that the following amendments will be effective from 0.00am on Wednesday, 26 November 2008:

General Provisions, Clause 4 (c) to be moved and renumbered General Provisions, Clause 5 (j) (i).

The following clause to be added as General Provisions, Clause 5 (j) (ii):

"It is your responsibility to ensure that any products/services which you have selected to auto renew through your account with us, have valid up-to-date credit/debit card details assigned to it/them at all times. We cannot be held responsible for failed payments or loss of any product or service(s) as a result of invalid, expired or missing credit/debit card details."

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Launch of our new Service, 'SiteMaker', we hereby give you notice in accordance with General Provisions, Clause 1d of our Business Terms and Conditions, and Clause 1e of our Consumer Terms and Conditions that the following amendments will be effective from 0.00am on Wednesday, 26 November 2008:

The addition of the following wording and Schedule:

Table of Contents

"SiteMaker Service (Schedule L)"

General Provisions, Clause 1 (b) (xi):

"Schedule L applies specifically to our SiteMaker Service"

SCHEDULE L

Terms and conditions relating to our SiteMaker Service ("the Service")

The Service is provided by a third party company, SiteMaker Software Limited, and branded by us as SiteMaker. The Terms and Conditions below relate to the sale and provision of the Service through us, in conjunction with these terms you also agree to SiteMaker's End User License Agreement, which can be found online at

http://www.names.co.uk/sitemaker-eula.html

1. Definitions

   In this schedule:

   1. "Brand Features" means all trade marks, service marks, logos and other distinctive brand features.
   2. "Links" means button pointer graphic text (including our Brand Features) incorporated within your Site, which permit users to navigate directly to our Site.
   3. "Product" means any item offered for sale through our Site.
   4. "Site" means either your World Wide Web site or one belonging to us.
   5. "Sub-domain Name" means a name selected to be part of your free 14 day trial.
   6. "The trial", "free trial", "14 Day FREE Trial" means the free 14 day trial of the Service.
   7. "User" means a visitor referred to our Site through the Links on your Site.
2. Orders
   1. Your order must be submitted to us using either the on-line order form or through one of our representatives.
3. Service
   1. A description of the packages and services we offer can be found on our web site www.names.co.uk/sitemaker.html
   2. First Line Technical Support for the Service is provided by Namesco.
   3. The Service is not available to customers with a shared hosting package on their domain.
4. Requirements for Service
   1. The Services must be used in respect of a registered domain name, except if you have signed up for "14 Day FREE Trial", where you are required to select your subdomain of "Subdomainname".my14daytrial.co.uk
5. Activation of Service
   1. In order to activate the Service you need to login to your account with us and follow the instructions supplied under SiteMaker.
   2. In order to activate "14 Day FREE Trial" you need to ensure you have provided us with username, password, valid email address and Sub-domain Name.
6. Duration
   1. The contract for the provision of the free trial is for 14 days from date of signup and/or order. At end of your free trial, your SiteMaker account and its content will be frozen and/or deleted, unless transferred to a registered domain with an associated SiteMaker product through us.
   2. If you transfer the Service to an associated SiteMaker product through us following expiry of the free trial, the Service will continue on an ongoing basis, unless terminated in accordance with clause 8 below.
7. Charges
   1. We require payment in advance for the purchase and renewal of the Service.
8. Termination
   1. The Service may be terminated by you at any time on giving 30 days written notice to us, or will be deemed to have been terminated by you through non-payment of the renewal due on the expiry date of the Service. Please note that should you terminate the Service your site(s) and all its contents will be deleted. Please note that deleting your site(s) does not terminate your contract, you need to explicitly cancel the subscription in writing.
   2. Neither us nor SiteMaker can take any responsibility for additional funds charged to you unless you explicitly terminate your subscription and receive confirmation that this has taken place.
   3. We shall be entitled to terminate the Service immediately on serving written notice if:
      1. Our third party provider is unable to provide the Service or becomes bankrupt or has a receiver or administrator appointed over all or any part of their assets
      2. It becomes unlawful for us to provide the Service
   4. Please refer to our Refund Policy (www.names.co.uk/legal.html).