Terms of service.
These terms govern every lease of address space taken through lir.rent. They describe what the lease grants, what it does not, and what each side owes the other.
- Company
- TAKEHOST OÜ
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Registry code
- 17524902
- LEI code
- 984500B3B0D694AFO595
- Address
- Harju maakond, Tallinn, Kesklinna linnaosa, Tornimäe tn 5, 10145, Estonia
- Contact
- [email protected]
lir.rent is the trading name of TAKEHOST OÜ, a company registered in Estonia. In these terms the operator means that company, and the customer means the organisation named on the lease.
A lease grants the right to announce a named prefix in the global routing table for an agreed term. It is not a sale, an assignment or a transfer of the address space in any other form.
The operator remains the holder of record for the space throughout the term. Registry objects, the geofeed and the route origin authorisation stay under the operator's control, and the space returns to the operator when the term ends.
The catalogue and its prices are visible only to an organisation an operator has verified. Verification is an explicit decision made by an operator against registry records, and it is recorded in the audit trail with the person who made it.
No lease can be started by an unverified organisation. The organisation is responsible for keeping its legal name, registry code, country, VAT number, abuse mailbox and announcing ASN current.
A verified organisation can place a hold on an available block while it confirms routing upstream. A hold lasts 48 hours, and at most one live hold exists on a block at a time. When it expires or is released, the block returns to the pool and anyone may take it.
An IPv4 prefix of /24 or smaller, and an IPv6 allocation of /48 or smaller, can be taken on card. The order is created awaiting payment with one invoice against it.
Anything wider than that is quoted. The order is created awaiting verification, and a person confirms the terms before it can move on. Both routes converge on the same lifecycle.
A term runs from 1 to 120 months. Each block carries its own minimum term, and an order below that minimum is rejected rather than accepted at a shorter length.
A lease becomes active when the operator activates the order. A card order requires a paid invoice before that can happen. Activation is the point at which the block is marked leased, the authorisation letter is issued for the announcing ASN, and the route origin authorisation is filed for it.
The route origin authorisation is filed for the block as a whole. A customer who wants to announce more specific routes out of it has to ask for a wider maximum length first.
Where the leased block geolocates is a request the customer files and the operator publishes. Publication updates the catalogue and the published geofeed together, so both read the same.
Invoices are issued in EUR and cover one month of the lease at the monthly price shown on the block when the order was placed. Each invoice carries its period and its number, and one invoice exists per period per order.
Payment is due within 14 days of the date an invoice is issued. A card order activates only once its first invoice is settled. However an invoice is settled, the payment reference is recorded against it.
The next period is invoiced when the current one runs out, for as long as the lease runs. An invoice that passes its due date suspends the lease: the block stays announced and the amount stays owed, and if it is not settled the route origin authorisation is withdrawn.
TAKEHOST OÜ is not registered for VAT, so no tax is added and invoices carry no VAT line. Each invoice states this. If that changes, the rules of the customer’s own country decide what an invoice carries from then on, and invoices already issued keep the treatment they were issued under.
Committing to a term commits to the block for at least that term. Once the term is served the lease continues month to month, because a block that stopped being announced without anyone asking would take a network down with it.
Notice can be given at any time from the dashboard. It takes effect at the end of the committed term, or at the end of the period already invoiced if that is later, and it can be withdrawn until then. On that date the route origin authorisation is withdrawn, the block returns to the catalogue and nothing further is invoiced.
The acceptable use policy forms part of these terms. It sets out what the leased space may not be used for, which ASN may announce it, and how far it may be deaggregated.
Where those rules are broken and not put right, the operator may withdraw the block: the route origin authorisation is withdrawn and the block stops being announced by the customer. Withdrawal does not refund a period already invoiced.
These terms are governed by the law of Estonia. Disputes that cannot be settled between the parties are heard by the courts of Estonia.
Questions about these terms go to [email protected]. Abuse reports go to [email protected].