Message Domains

Domain Owner Agreement

Version 1.0 · November 6, 2026

This agreement is between Osher Mevin, Inc., a Delaware corporation doing business as Message Domains (“Message Domains”, “we”), and the person or company that signs it (“Owner”, “you”). It lets us lease addresses under a .us domain you own.

Section 5 explains the risks you keep as the domain’s registrant. You sign it separately.

1. Definitions

  • Domain: the .us domain named on the signature page, for example loves.us.
  • Address: a hostname directly under the Domain, for example our-dog.loves.us.
  • Lease: our grant to a buyer of the right to use an Address for a paid term.
  • Net Lease Revenue: what a buyer pays us for a Lease of an Address, including any Hosted Page fee, minus card-processing fees, sales tax, refunds and chargebacks, and excluding any named-person surcharge.
  • Owner Share: 60% of Net Lease Revenue for the days an Address is served in a month.
  • Effective Date: the date you sign.

2. What you grant

2.1 You grant us, for the term of this agreement, the exclusive right to lease, operate and control every Address under the Domain, and to operate the Domain’s DNS, root page and TLS certificates.

2.2 You keep ownership of the Domain and stay its registrant. Nothing in this agreement transfers the Domain, except under section 9.

3. Term and renewal

3.1 This agreement starts on the Effective Date and runs for 12 months. It then renews for 12 months at a time unless either side gives notice under section 11.

3.2 The Domain must have at least 12 months left before its expiry date when you sign, and must stay registered and set to auto-renew while this agreement and any Lease under section 11.3 last.

4. What we do

4.1 We operate the Domain’s DNS on our Cloudflare account, issue certificates, publish the root page and route every Address.

4.2 We lease Addresses on the same public price list as every other verb; every verb has the same prices. We change the price list at most once a quarter, with 30 days’ public notice, and the same change applies to every verb.

4.3 We run the compliance check, handle complaints and legal notices, bill buyers, answer buyers and keep records, all under our published policies.

4.4 We decide what goes live under the Domain only by our published rules. You may not choose, approve or block buyers, labels or content, and you agree not to contact buyers about their content.

5. Risk allocation (signed separately)

5.1 You are the registrant. In any domain dispute (including usDRP and UDRP), lawsuit or inquiry about the Domain, you are the formal respondent. You pay your own costs and fees in it.

5.2 Registration data. You are responsible for the accuracy of the Domain’s registration data and for meeting the .us nexus requirement. You will answer any registry or registrar nexus inquiry within 10 days and send us a copy.

5.3 Indemnity. You will indemnify and defend us against any claim, loss or expense, including reasonable lawyers’ fees, arising from your registration data, your nexus status, your title to the Domain, or your breach of this agreement.

5.4 Suspension. We may suspend any Address at any time, including to end a dispute. When we learn that a proceeding about an Address has been formally filed, we suspend it within 24 hours so that no Address remains in issue.

5.5 Our responsibility. We are responsible only for the operation of our own systems and for paying the Owner Share. We are not responsible for buyers’ content, and we do not take part in any proceeding about the Domain except to comply with legal process.

6. What you do

You will:

  1. keep the Domain’s nameservers set to the two we assign, and not change its DNS records;
  2. keep the Domain registered, set to auto-renew and under registrar lock;
  3. not use, lease or allow anyone else to use any Address or hostname under the Domain;
  4. tell us within 2 business days about any dispute, complaint, notice or proceeding about the Domain;
  5. keep your contact details and payout account current.

7. Owner Share and payment

7.1 For each Lease, we spread its Net Lease Revenue evenly over the days of its term. You earn the Owner Share for the days an Address is actually served.

7.2 By the 5th of each month we pay the Owner Share earned in the previous month, by transfer to your Stripe Connect account. Amounts under US$10 roll over to the next month.

7.3 Each month we send you a statement listing each Lease by masked address (for example o***.loves.us), the days served, the Net Lease Revenue and your share. We do not share buyers’ identities or contact details with you.

7.4 Refunds and chargebacks reduce the Owner Share only for days not yet served. Unearned amounts are never paid, so nothing paid is clawed back except under section 10.

7.5 You are responsible for your own taxes. Stripe issues any required tax forms for payments to your account.

7.6 You may ask us once a year to explain any statement. We will answer within 30 days.

8. Your dashboard

Your dashboard shows the Domain’s status (nameservers, certificate, expiry date, nexus inquiries), the number of active Leases, earnings, statements, compliance totals for the Domain and any proceeding involving it. It does not list labels or buyers.

9. Our option to buy the Domain

9.1 We may buy the Domain at any time for the greater of: (a) three times the Owner Share paid to you in the 12 months before our offer; and (b) US$500.

9.2 Our dashboard shows the current buyout price. If we exercise the option, you will start the transfer to our registrar account within 10 days of our written notice, and sign any transfer authorization the registrar needs. We pay within 5 business days of the transfer completing. The Owner Share stops on the day the transfer completes.

10. Breach

10.1 These are breaches: changing the Domain’s nameservers or DNS without our consent; letting the Domain expire, be put on hold or be deleted; any use under section 6.3; false registration or nexus data; and any other material breach of this agreement.

10.2 If one happens, we may suspend every Address under the Domain and tell you. You have 24 hours to cure a nameserver or DNS change and 10 days to cure anything else.

10.3 If you do not cure in time, we may end this agreement at once. You forfeit the Owner Share for the month in which the breach began, which we withhold from your next payment or, if it has been paid, which you repay within 30 days. You also reimburse any refunds and service extensions we give buyers because of the breach.

11. Ending the agreement

11.1 Either side may end this agreement by giving notice at least 30 days before the next renewal date. We may also end it at any time with 30 days’ notice.

11.2 From the end date, we stop taking new Leases and renewals under the Domain.

11.3 Leases already paid for continue until the end of their current paid term, which is at most 24 months. Until the last one ends, you keep the nameservers set to ours and section 6 continues to apply, and we keep paying the Owner Share for the days served.

11.4 When the last Lease ends, we remove the Domain from our systems and you may change its nameservers.

11.5 If we end this agreement under section 10.3, or you ask in writing, we may instead end the remaining Leases early, refund their buyers for unused days, and release the Domain sooner. If we do this because of your breach, section 10.3 applies to those refunds.

12. Confidentiality

Each side keeps the other’s non-public business information confidential, except as the law requires or as needed to perform this agreement. The terms of this agreement and your statements are confidential. The existence of the Domain on our site is not.

13. Your promises

You confirm that you are at least 18; that you are the Domain’s registrant or are authorized by the registrant to sign; that the Domain’s registration and nexus data are true; that no one else has rights to Addresses under the Domain; and that you have authority to enter this agreement.

14. Limitation of liability

14.1 Neither side is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits.

14.2 Our total liability under this agreement is limited to the Owner Share paid to you in the 12 months before the claim arose.

14.3 These limits do not apply to your obligations under section 5.3 or to amounts you owe under section 10.3.

15. Notices

We send notices to the email on your account. Send notices to owners@messagedomains.us and, for formal service, to Osher Mevin, Inc., 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958.

16. Disputes

16.1 Any dispute under this agreement is resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, by video unless both sides agree otherwise. Either side may bring a qualifying claim in small claims court, or ask a court for an injunction to protect the Domain or the service.

16.2 Claims may be brought only individually, not in a class, collective or representative proceeding. Both sides waive jury trial.

16.3 Delaware law governs this agreement. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

17. General

17.1 Electronic signature. You sign by typing your full legal name and checking the boxes on the signature page. You agree that this is your signature under the federal ESIGN Act and Delaware law. We record the time, your account and a hashed IP address with the signed copy.

17.2 Entire agreement. This agreement and our published price list, Content Policy and Complaints Policy are the whole agreement about the Domain.

17.3 Assignment. You may assign this agreement only to someone who acquires the Domain, and only with our written consent. We may assign it to a successor to our business.

17.4 Survival. Sections 5, 7.4, 10.3, 11.3, 12, 14 and 16 survive the end of this agreement.

17.5 Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

Signature page

Field Value
Domain {domain}
Owner (person or company) {owner_name}
Signed by (full legal name, typed) {signer_name}
Title, if signing for a company {signer_title}
Date and time (UTC) {signed_at}
  • I have read section 5 and accept the risks it describes. (initialed separately: {initials})
  • I agree to this Domain Owner Agreement.