Terms of Service

Version 1.8 · November 11, 2026

These terms are a contract between you and Osher Mevin, Inc., a Delaware corporation doing business as Message Domains (“Message Domains”, “we”, “us”). They apply when you create an account at messagedomains.us or lease an address from us.

Please read section 17. It requires disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration instead of in court, waives class actions and jury trials, and explains how to opt out within 30 days.

1. What we provide

1.1 Hostname leases. We operate domains made of verbs, such as crushes.us. A lease gives you the right to use one address under one of those domains, such as rent.crushes.us, for the term you pay for. Each address reads as a sentence (“Rent crushes us.”).

1.2 Delivery modes. An address either redirects visitors to a web page you choose (“Redirect”) or shows a one-page template we host for you (“Hosted Page”). Both include a QR print kit and basic visit counts. Hosted Page is available when we announce it on the pricing page.

1.3 What we are not. We lease hostnames and host template pages, much as a registrar and web host do. We do not write, edit, suggest or choose any words, subjects or targets for you. We do not sell placement, audiences or targeting. We do not judge disputes between you and anyone else. We do not collect money for you, and no payment forms run on any address.

1.4 Owners of verb domains. Some verb domains are owned by third parties who let us lease addresses under them. That does not change these terms or your price. If an owner leaves, your lease continues until the end of the term you have paid for (section 6.7).

2. Eligibility and accounts

2.1 You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. If you act for an organization, you confirm that you are authorized to bind it, and “you” includes that organization.

2.2 You sign in with Google, an emailed sign-in link or a passkey. Keep your sign-in methods secure. You are responsible for activity on your account. Tell us at once at support@messagedomains.us if you think your account has been misused.

2.3 You must give accurate information when you sign up, declare your buyer type, verify your identity or submit any form, and keep it current.

2.4 During a private beta, only invited email addresses can lease.

2.5 Organization accounts. An organization account belongs to the organization, not to the person who opened it. Whoever opens one becomes its first owner and must keep a passkey on their sign-in. Owners and admins can invite people by email and give each one a role: owner, admin (manages members and leases), editor (writes redirect targets and Hosted Pages), billing (pays, sees receipts and manages the plan) or viewer (sees the account). Only an owner can make or remove another owner. Every member acts for the organization, and the organization is responsible for what its members do in the account. The same goes for API keys an owner or admin makes for the account: whatever is done with a key is done by the organization, until the key is revoked. An organization account always has at least one owner and at most 25 members. A member may leave at any time, and an owner or admin may remove any member who is not an owner. Seats need the organization plan (section 6.8).

3. Leases

3.1 A lease is a license, not ownership. You do not own the address or any domain. You may not sell, sublease, assign or transfer a lease. An organization account may move a lease to another account of the same organization after that account passes the same identity checks.

3.2 First come, first served. Addresses are leased in the order paid for. We do not hold, reserve, auction or set aside addresses for anyone. Some labels are reserved for technical reasons and are never offered.

3.3 Labels. A label may use letters, digits and hyphens. We may refuse a label that breaks the Content Policy, is on our published word list, was ended under section 12 in the past 12 months, or is reserved.

3.4 Your sentence. You choose the label. The sentence it forms with the verb is your statement, not ours.

4. The compliance check

4.1 Every label, Hosted Page version and redirect target is checked against the eight rules and the subject rule in our Content Policy (messagedomains.us/content-policy). Independent models from several US companies run the check under fixed decision rules. No person at Message Domains reads or chooses content.

4.2 A label is checked after you tell us who you are and before you pay. A redirect target or Hosted Page is checked after you pay. If it fails, your payment is kept and the address waits: you can give another target, up to 5 times a day, and the address goes live, with your term starting, when one passes. If you would rather not go on, ask us for a full refund (section 7.1).

4.3 Redirect targets are checked again once a month, and whenever you change them. If a monthly check finds rule 1, 2 or 4 broken, the address is suspended at once. If it finds another rule broken, we email you and you have 72 hours to change the target before the address is suspended. Either way the address comes back as soon as a new target passes. The term keeps running while an address is suspended.

4.4 Decisions are final. If something is rejected you will see the rule number and its text. Before you pay, you may check up to 20 labels a day; after you pay, you may edit and resubmit up to 5 times a day per lease. There is no human appeal, and we do not suggest changes.

5. Prices, payment and taxes

5.1 Prices are on our public price list (messagedomains.us/pricing). A price depends only on the term, the delivery mode and the date of purchase. Every verb costs the same, and a price never depends on the label or on who you are. Everyone pays the same price; we offer no bulk pricing, coupons or private deals. A promotion, if we ever run one, is open to everyone on the same written terms.

5.2 We announce a new price list at least 30 days before it takes effect. Paid terms are not affected. Renewals use the price list in effect on the renewal date.

5.3 Labels that name a real person. A label that the compliance check finds names a real person is offered in two cases:

(a) Public figures. If the person is a public figure (a candidate, a current or former officeholder, or a national public figure), the label costs three times the Redirect price for the term (plus the Hosted Page fee for a Hosted Page lease), is leased only for one or two years, and requires an identity check before you pay. It may not lead to a page that sells goods or services, whether by redirect or on a Hosted Page, unless (b) applies to you; if it does, we treat it as a broken rule under sections 4.3 and 11. The amount above the standard price is shown on your receipt as “Named-person label pricing (3x)”. We keep none of it: each quarter we give it in full to the organizations listed at messagedomains.us/surcharge. It is part of the price of the service, not a gift by you, and it is not tax-deductible for you.

(b) Your own name. Any label that names a person may be leased by the person whose legal name it is. We read the name from a government ID in an identity check that matches a selfie to the ID (section 10.6). The label must be your first name and surname, in either order, with or without your middle names or their initials, and spelled with the letters on the ID (accents, apostrophes and hyphens aside); a first name or a surname alone, or a near spelling, does not count. If the label also names a public figure, (a) still sets the price, the terms and the surcharge, and your page may sell your own goods or services on two conditions: visitors first see our notice that the address is leased by a person who shares the name and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the public figure; and your page must not present itself as the public figure, use their image or likeness, their slogans or political messages or their trademarks, or suggest that they endorse you or are connected with you. If it does, we treat it as a broken rule under sections 4.3 and 11. Any other label that names a person is priced like other labels, and its page may sell goods or services. In every case, sharing a name gives you no right in a trademark that uses it: you must not use the name for goods or services that someone else’s trademark covers, or in any way likely to cause confusion with that trademark. A lease under (b) stays with the account that passed the check and cannot be moved under section 3.1.

5.4 Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not see or store your full card number. Sales tax is added where it applies and shown before you pay.

5.5 You authorize us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method for the price shown when you pay and for each renewal of a recurring lease (section 6).

6. Terms, renewal and cancellation

6.1 Monthly and quarterly leases renew automatically. Before you pay we show the price, the renewal period and how to cancel, and you confirm by checking a box. Your lease renews at the end of each period, and we charge the price list in effect on that date, until you cancel. We email a receipt each time.

6.2 Cancelling a recurring lease. Cancel at any time in Billing on your account page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period; the address stays live until then. We do not refund the current period when you cancel.

6.3 Year and two-year leases are paid once and do not renew automatically. You may renew from 30 days before the end date, at the price list in effect that day. We email reminders 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before the end date.

6.4 Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries for up to 7 days. If it still fails, the lease moves to its grace period.

6.5 Grace period. For 30 days after a lease ends, the address shows a neutral “not active” page and you may renew to keep it. A renewal in the grace period starts the new term on the day you pay; a renewal before the end date adds the new term to the end date. After that the label is released, and everyone who asked to be told when it frees up is told at the same moment.

6.6 Ending a lease yourself. You may end a lease at any time from its page. The address goes offline and the label is released right away. Ending a lease yourself is not refunded.

6.7 If a domain owner leaves. If the owner of a verb domain ends its agreement with us, your lease continues until the end of the term you have paid for. A recurring lease under that domain will not renew after that date; we will tell you at least 30 days before.

6.8 The organization plan. Seats in an organization account need its plan, at the price on our price list ($99 a month or $990 a year). The plan is a subscription separate from your leases. Before you pay we show the price, the renewal period and how to cancel. It renews at the end of each month or year at the price list in effect on that date until you cancel in Billing. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period, which is not refunded. If a payment fails, Stripe retries for up to 7 days, and then the plan ends. While the plan isn’t running, members other than owners and the billing contact can see the account but can’t change anything, and no one new can join. The plan never changes the price of a lease, and your leases keep running and renewing whether or not it does.

6.9 Several addresses in one payment. On the organization plan you may pay for up to 10 year or two-year leases on one verb domain at once. Each address is checked on its own and is its own lease, with an equal share of the payment (any odd cent on the first). Refunds, receipts and the rules in section 7 apply to each address and its share; an address that cannot be leased after you pay is refunded its share.

7. Refunds

7.1 Full refund if your redirect target or Hosted Page fails the compliance check after you pay and you ask for a refund before the address goes live, or if the check cannot be finished.

7.2 Pro-rata refund of unused days if we end your lease under section 10.4 (identity check not finished), 11.5 (named private individual), 12 (formal proceeding) or 15.3 (verb domain discontinued).

7.3 No refund if you end a lease yourself, if you cancel a recurring lease, if we end it under section 15.2 for a breach of these terms, or for time an address spends suspended because its content broke a rule (sections 4.3 and 11).

7.4 Refunds go to the original payment method. Sales tax is refunded to the extent Stripe can refund it.

7.5 If you dispute a charge with your bank, the lease is suspended until the dispute is resolved. We send the bank our records of the lease.

8. Content Policy

8.1 You must follow the Content Policy, which is part of these terms. In short: opinion, criticism, praise, satire and hyperbole about public figures, public bodies, companies, bills, issues and ordinary things are allowed. Threats, private information, harassment of private individuals, false voting information, impersonation or implied endorsement, hateful attacks, copyright infringement, malware, phishing, adult content and anything unlawful are not. Private individuals and local small businesses may not be named.

9. Your responsibilities

9.1 You are the author. You are solely responsible for your label, your Hosted Page and the page your address points to.

9.2 What you promise. You promise that your content and its use: (a) are lawful; (b) do not infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark, publicity or other rights; (c) do not state as fact anything you know to be false about an identifiable person or organization; (d) do not suggest that anyone named endorses or is connected with you unless that is true; and (e) do not use anyone’s logo, trademark or official visual identity.

9.3 Selling goods. If your address leads to a page that sells goods, you take full responsibility for trademark and publicity-rights claims about those goods and your address.

9.4 Political use. If your lease is about a candidate, an officeholder or a ballot measure, you are responsible for every disclosure and record that election law requires of you, including any “Paid for by” statement on your own pages. Political committees must enter their “Paid for by” statement, and we show it on their Hosted Page. Political-use leases are listed in our public registry (section 9.5).

9.5 Public registry. If you declare political use, or the compliance check finds that your label is about a candidate, an officeholder or a ballot measure, we list the lease at messagedomains.us/registry/political for at least five years: the address, the sponsor’s name, city and state, what it is about, the service and dates, and the amount paid. Full records, including the sponsor’s address, are available for public inspection on request. You cannot opt out of the registry. See messagedomains.us/political-records.

9.6 Foreign nationals and US elections. If you are not a US citizen or lawful permanent resident, or you act for a foreign entity, you may not use the service in connection with any US election, candidate, officeholder or ballot measure.

9.7 Payment links. Buttons on a Hosted Page may only link to pages you control, such as your own store or contribution page. We never collect money on your behalf.

9.8 No misuse. You will not probe or attack our systems, scrape the service, create accounts to get around limits, or use the service to send spam.

10. Identity verification

10.1 Individuals start with a verified email address and a card. An organization gives its legal name, website, EIN or state registration number and mailing address, confirms an email address at its website’s domain, and the person acting for it passes an ID check through Stripe Identity. A political committee gives its FEC committee ID (federal committees only, for now); we confirm it in the FEC’s public records, and the person acting for it passes an ID check. Buyers of named-person labels pass an ID check; buyers under section 5.3(b) take the check in section 10.6. A political-use lease (section 9.4) also needs an ID check from the last 90 days and the sponsor’s mailing address, for the public record described in our Political-Use Records Policy. We keep the result of a check and the name on the ID, not your ID images.

10.2 We may ask an individual for an ID check if: the label names a real person or a well-known brand; a Hosted Page receives a complaint we accept; you send a counter-notice; or you open a third lease with the same card or device.

10.3 When we ask, you have 72 hours to finish the check.

10.4 If you do not finish it, the lease ends with a pro-rata refund.

10.5 A Hosted Page shows “an individual” as its author unless you choose to show your verified name, or you are an organization or committee.

10.6 Own-name check. For section 5.3(b), Stripe Identity checks a government ID and compares a selfie you take with the photo on it. Before the check starts you give your written consent to that comparison under our Biometric Information Policy; Stripe also asks for its own consent in its flow. Stripe collects the selfie, the ID images and the facial measurements it uses to compare them; we never receive the images or the facial measurements, and we ask Stripe to delete them as soon as the check is done, as that policy describes. We receive the result and the name printed on the ID. We keep the name encrypted and use it only to compare it with labels you ask to lease, to show who holds a lease under section 5.3(b) when a complaint, a court or the law requires it, and as our privacy notice describes.

11. Complaints and counter-notices

11.1 Anyone may complain about an address by citing a rule and giving their real name and contact details (messagedomains.us/complaints). We do not decide who is right.

11.2 We run the compliance check again with the cited rules. If it confirms rule 1, 2 or 4, the address is suspended at once. Otherwise we forward the complaint to you within 24 hours, without the complainant’s postal address.

11.3 You then have 72 hours to respond, either by changing your target or page so that it passes the check, or by sending a counter-notice. If you do neither, the address is suspended until you do one of them. Opening the email is not a response.

11.4 Counter-notice. A counter-notice must include your full legal name and a statement made under penalty of perjury. It must also include your consent to jurisdiction and to service of process as set out in our Complaints Policy. When you send one, the address stays live or comes back, and we send the complainant a copy with your name and email address (not your postal address). If you are an individual who has not passed an ID check, we may ask for one first (section 10).

11.5 Named private individuals. If a person named by your label proves their identity, swears they are not a public figure, and does not appear on public lists of candidates and officeholders, your lease ends within 48 hours with a pro-rata refund, and the label is unavailable for 12 months. We do not tell them who you are. This section does not end a lease under section 5.3(b) because another person shares your name.

11.6 Your remedies against a complainant, and theirs against you, are between the two of you. We take no side and give no legal advice to either.

12. Formal legal proceedings

12.1 If a lawsuit, domain dispute (including usDRP or UDRP), arbitration or government inquiry is formally filed about your address, we end the lease within 48 hours. You receive a pro-rata refund and the label is unavailable for 12 months.

12.2 A lawyer’s letter that is not a filed proceeding does not end a lease. We forward it to you.

12.3 We do not take part in any proceeding between you and anyone else, except to comply with legal process (section 13).

13. Legal process and emergencies

13.1 We comply with valid subpoenas, court orders, preservation requests and law enforcement requests, as described at messagedomains.us/legal-process. Unless the law or the request forbids it, we tell you before we disclose your information.

13.2 We may suspend an address at once, without notice, if we receive a credible law enforcement request involving a risk to someone’s safety, or if needed to protect our systems.

14. Copyright

14.1 We respond to copyright notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as described at messagedomains.us/dmca. We end the accounts of repeat infringers.

15. Suspension and termination

15.1 You may close your account at any time from your account page. Active leases end without refund when you close it.

15.2 We may suspend or end your account or any lease, without refund, if you breach these terms, give false information, or use the service in a way that exposes us or others to legal harm. Where the reason is not urgent, we tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

15.3 We may stop offering a verb domain. We then give at least 30 days’ notice, and refund unused days pro rata.

15.4 Sections 5.3, 7, 9, 12, 17 to 20 and 23 survive the end of these terms.

16. Availability

16.1 We aim to keep every address available but do not promise uninterrupted service.

16.2 If an active address is unavailable for more than 24 consecutive hours because of our systems, or because the owner of the verb domain broke its agreement with us, we extend your term by the number of days affected. This extension is your only remedy for an outage.

16.3 Before major elections we freeze most changes to our systems. Your leases keep working during a freeze.

17. Disputes: informal resolution, arbitration and class waiver

17.1 Talk to us first. Before filing a claim, send a written description of the dispute and the relief you want to legal@messagedomains.us. Both sides will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days.

17.2 Binding individual arbitration. If we cannot resolve it, you and we agree that any dispute arising from these terms or the service will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA). Individuals use its Consumer Arbitration Rules; organizations use its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitrator decides all questions, including whether a dispute must be arbitrated. Hearings take place by video, or in the county where you live if you prefer. Fees follow the AAA rules; for individuals we pay any filing, administration and arbitrator fees above the amount the AAA charges a consumer.

17.3 Exceptions. Either side may bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies. Either side may ask a court to stop infringement or misuse of intellectual property or of the service.

17.4 No class actions and no jury. Claims may only be brought individually, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not combine claims of different people. You and we waive any right to a jury trial.

17.5 Mass filings. If 25 or more similar claims are filed by or with the help of the same lawyers or organization, they are filed and decided in batches of 25. Each batch is treated as one case for AAA fees. The parties choose one arbitrator per batch, and the statute of limitations is paused for claims waiting in later batches.

17.6 Opting out. You may opt out of this section 17 by emailing legal@messagedomains.us from your account email within 30 days of first accepting these terms. Write “Arbitration opt-out” and your name. Opting out does not affect any other part of these terms.

17.7 If this section fails. If the class waiver in section 17.4 is found unenforceable for a claim, that claim goes to court, not arbitration, and is paused until any arbitrable claims are decided. Any court case under these terms is brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and both sides consent to their jurisdiction.

17.8 Governing law. Delaware law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs section 17.

18. Indemnity

18.1 You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Message Domains, its directors, officers, employees, contractors and the owners of verb domains against any claim, loss or expense, including reasonable lawyers’ fees, arising from your content, your lease, your use of the service or your breach of these terms.

18.2 We will tell you promptly about any such claim. We may take part in the defense with our own lawyers at our own cost. You may not settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation on us without our written consent.

19. Disclaimers

19.1 The service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

19.2 We do not promise that a label will pass the compliance check, that an address will receive any visits, or that a page you link to will stay available.

20. Limitation of liability

20.1 To the fullest extent the law allows, neither side is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue or data.

20.2 Our total liability for all claims relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose and US$100.

20.3 These limits do not apply to your obligations under section 18, or to liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

21. Changes to these terms

21.1 We may update these terms. For a material change we email you and post the new version at least 30 days before it takes effect. You accept it by using the service after that date. When you next sign in or buy, we ask you to confirm.

21.2 A change never alters the price of a term you have already paid for.

21.3 Section 17 changes do not apply to disputes already notified to us.

22. Notices

22.1 We send notices to your account email address, and they count as received the day we send them. Keep your address current.

22.2 Send legal notices to legal@messagedomains.us and, for formal service of process, to Osher Mevin, Inc., 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958.

23. General

23.1 Export and sanctions. You confirm that you are not on a US sanctions list and will not use the service from a country under comprehensive US sanctions.

23.2 Entire agreement. These terms, together with the Content Policy, Complaints Policy, Privacy Notice and any terms shown at checkout, are the whole agreement between you and us about the service.

23.3 Assignment. You may not assign these terms. We may assign them to a successor to our business, and we will tell you if we do.

23.4 Force majeure. Neither side is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

23.5 Severability and waiver. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.

23.6 Electronic records. You agree to receive these terms, receipts and notices electronically and to sign by checking boxes and typing your name.

23.7 Language. These terms are written in English, and the English version controls.

23.8 Contact. support@messagedomains.us for help; legal@messagedomains.us for legal matters.