Rent Agreement Nameshift.com





The Rentor and Rentee will enter into a rental agreement of the domain name through the website which is operated by the Third Party, also known as the Contractor Nameshift.com (Third Party)

This Rental Agreement is an additional agreement that's only applicable in case of an Rental Agreement where a domain is rented instead of purchased.


The Parties agree to deposit the Domain Name with the Third Party under the conditions specified herein;


The parties have agreed as follows:


This agreement is entered into with no hard end date. This means that the domain can be rented as long as the rentee wants to and doesn't miss any payment deadlines for the Rental Price. The Rentor and Rentee agreed to the stated rent per month, to be paid ultimately on the payment deadline. The first rental payment should be credited on the day that this agreement is formalized. The following payment periods constitute deadlines. After 7 consecutive business days of non-payment, the contract is automatically terminated, with no reimbursements.


The Rentee can submit the DNS/Nameserver settings they'd like to set for the domain which will be updated in the records of the domain by the Third Party, thus allowing the Rentee to effectively control/develop the Domain Name.


Nameshift charges an additional 5% to the Rentee for administrative costs, domain renewal fees are payed by Nameshift as long as they don't exceed the equivalent of 20 euro excl. taxes. annualy, additional costs are for the Rentor.

Rental terms:


After the first Rental Price is submitted, the Rentor and Rentee are prohibited to sell or rent the Domain Name to a third party, to pledge the Domain Name as security if such pledge frustrates the (performance of this) agreement, or to act in any other way which is in conflict with this agreement or which may cause damages to the Third Party and/or the Rentee. If the Rentor/Rentee violates this clause, the Rentor/Rentee shall be liable for all the actual damages caused to the Third Party and/or the Rentor/Rentee.

The Third Party functions as an intermediary between the Provider/Rentor and is not part of this rental agreement. The Third Party solely manages the Domain Name in accordance with this agreement and does not in any way grant any credit, nor does it have any legal claims on the Domain Name against the Rentor. The Rentor and the Rentee shall resolve any conflicts which may arise themselves. The Rentor and the Rentee indemnify and hold harmless the Third Party from any claim made by any (third) party due to or arising out of any breach of contract or any unlawful act.

The Rentee is solely entitled to use the Domain Name with due diligence. The Rentee shall not in any way use the Domain Name which in any respect:

a. is in breach of any law, statute, regulation or by law;

b. is fraudulent, criminal or unlawful;

c. promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

d. may infringe or breach the copyright or any intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright, trademark rights and broadcasting rights) or privacy or other rights of the Third Party or any third party;

e. contains video, audio photographs, or images of another person without his or her permission (or in the case of a minor, the minor's legal guardian);

f. provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons or drugs, violating someone's privacy, or providing, disseminating or creating computer viruses;

g. publicizes or promotes commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;

h. involves the use, delivery or transmission of any viruses, unsolicited emails, trojan horses or any other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.


Any (other) illegal activities or any other activities which may cause damages to the Rentor or the Third Party and/or which may decrease the value of the Domain Name are strictly prohibited. Such activities include, without limitations, the use of aggressive SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey search engines guidelines (black hat SEO), such as keyword stuffing, invisible text, doorway pages, adding unrelated keywords to the page content or page swapping (changing the webpage entirely after it has been ranked by search engines), and the use of the Domain Name for spam activities.

In case of violation of (any) clauses the Rentee shall forfeit without further notice of default is required a directly and not open to mitigation claimed fine of 80 times the monthly rent per violation to be paid to the Provider, notwithstanding the Rentor's or the Third Party's right to claim the actual damages. The Rentee is furthermore obligated to limit any damages and/or undo the decreasing of the value of the Domain Name.

This agreement shall continue from the date hereof and shall be extended automatically with every timely and successful Rental Price Payment. The Rentee can cancel a Rental Agreement by notifying the Third Party provider or by not paying the Rental Price before the payment deadline.

If the Rentee fails and/or neglects to carry out the terms as set out in this agreement, the Rentor may terminate this agreement immediately without prior notice. The Rentee is liable to compensate all damages caused by this breach of contract, if any.

This agreement shall terminate immediately without prior notice if the Rentee suffers bankruptcy, applied for suspension of payment, ceases operations or the company of the Rentee is liquidated.

After termination of this agreement, the Rentor may rent or sell the Domain Name to any party, including to competitors of the Rentee.

Parties herewith expressly relinquish the right to invoke the dissolution of the present agreement, on whatever grounds.

This agreement shall be governed by the law of the Netherlands. In the event of disputes regarding or related to the agreement concerned, Parties shall exclusively apply to the competent authority in the Netherlands.

Terms published 24 March 2025.