domain terms of sale
who sells the domains
the domains are sold by CommuteGeek Corp. of Alberta, Canada (“we”, “us”), the maker of memoe, at memoe.co/domains. email: info@commutegeek.com. by ticking the box and placing a bid you agree to these terms. memoe’s terms of use and privacy policy apply as well; where they differ, these terms decide for a domain sale.
what you are buying
you are buying one domain name, as it is registered to us today, and its transfer to you. you are not buying a trademark, a business, a website, email, hosting or any promise about what the name is worth, how it ranks or who else has rights in the words in it. some of these names are crude or adult in tone; checking whether you may use a name, and how, is up to you. you are responsible for the registry’s rules and the law wherever you use it.
buying a domain also gives you the same preorder benefits as a preorder of the founding edition at memoe.co: the memoe app when it launches, the discount on memoe pro and a founder badge. they come on the founding edition’s terms of sale, and they cost nothing more than the domain. you get one set of them for each buyer, however many domains you buy. they aren’t added to anything for you: to claim them, write to info@commutegeek.com with your sale reference. what you pay for a domain isn’t added to a founding edition total and doesn’t give a place on its leaderboard.
how an auction works
- each domain has its own auction, and it lasts 12 hours from the moment it opens. the page shows when each one opens and when it ends.
- we set a minimum price for each domain. the first bid has to be at least that. each bid after it has to beat the highest by at least the step for the price it beats, in whole dollars. the step is $50 under $5,000, $100 from $5,000 and $500 from $25,000.
- a bid in the last 5 minutes adds 5 minutes to the end, so no one can win by waiting for the last second. the end can move later this way, but never by more than 24 hours past the time it was first set.
- we may move the end time of an auction, earlier or later, at any time before it ends. the page always shows each auction’s current end time and, when it changes, shows the new one. after we move an end time, the 24 hours above count from the end time we set.
- when it ends, the highest bid wins. the time that counts is the time on memoe’s server, which the page shows.
- you can’t bid against yourself, and a bid can’t be taken back. a bid ten times or more the price it beats, of $500 or more, is asked about once before it’s placed, in case of a typing mistake.
- we don’t bid on our own domains and no one bids for us.
- we can cancel an auction before it ends if there is a mistake, a problem with the name or a sign of fraud; no one is charged for a cancelled auction. we can block a bidder who gives false details, bids in order to disrupt the auction, or can’t be charged.
what you tell us, and your card
to bid for the first time you type your email address, tick the box that says you have read and understood these terms in full, and you save a card with Stripe. Stripe’s page, which shows your email, asks for the card, your full name as it is on the card and your billing address; you can also give a phone number here before you bid, which helps us reach you if there is a question about the sale. what you give must be yours and true, and you must be old enough to make a contract where you live. when the card is saved your bank may ask you to confirm it (3-D Secure); that confirmation is part of the record. the bid you typed is placed when you come back from Stripe’s page, if it is still a valid bid then; if the price has moved while you were there, your card is saved and no bid is placed until you bid again.
we keep what you gave us; the card’s brand, last four digits, country and fingerprint, your billing address and country, what the bank did about 3-D Secure; the time you ticked the box, the version of these terms and the address and browser you used; and every bid you place. we use them to run the sale, to stop fraud and to answer a payment dispute, and we keep them as long as a dispute or the law requires. the privacy policy says more. the public sees only a name you chose, or “bidder” and a number, and your billing country.
a bid is a binding offer, and you pay when you win
placing a bid is a binding offer to buy that domain at that price. by placing it you allow us to charge your saved card the winning price, once, automatically, as soon as the auction ends if your bid is the highest. there is no spending limit other than your own bid, the price is the winning bid and nothing is added to it by us, and you don’t have to do anything more. your bank may add its own fees, and you are responsible for any tax that applies to you.
if the charge doesn’t go through (the card is declined, or the bank wants you to confirm it), the page tells you and gives you a payment page to pay the same price by card. until it is paid you are still the buyer. if you don’t pay, we can offer the domain to the next highest bidder at their own bid, or put it up again, and we can block you from later auctions.
if you think a charge is wrong, please write to us first at info@commutegeek.com. if you dispute a sale with your bank, we will give the bank the record of it: your details, the time you accepted these terms, your bids, the payment and the transfer of the domain.
getting the domain
after the sale, write to info@commutegeek.com from the email you gave us, with your sale reference (the page shows it) and where to send the domain: the account at your registrar, or an authorization code if you prefer to transfer it that way. we transfer the domain to you within 24 hours after you write to us. we may check that you are the person who bought it before we do. where a registrar or registry needs longer to finish a transfer we have sent, that time isn’t ours, and we will tell you if a rule delays it.
until it is transferred the domain stays registered to us. after, you are responsible for renewing it and for your registrar’s fees. the sale and the charge stand whenever you write to us, so please write soon. the page has a button to tell us the domain has arrived.
refunds
a sold domain can’t be refunded: bids are binding, and a domain name can’t be given back. we refund the whole price if we can’t transfer the domain to you, or if we cancel the sale. this doesn’t limit any right to a refund that the law where you live gives you.
what we don’t promise
we sell a name as it is, with no promise that it is free of anyone else’s rights or that it will keep working. our responsibility for a sale is limited to the price you paid for it, except where the law doesn’t allow that. the preorder benefits are the founding edition’s, on its terms of sale, and don’t include a place on its leaderboard.
the law that applies
these terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and disputes will be handled in the courts of Alberta. if you are a consumer, nothing here takes away the protection the mandatory law of the place you live gives you. if these terms change, a sale keeps the version it was made under.