Abstract

Hosting is a service that consists in storing data and giving an ideal fragment of the disk’s space for the disposal of the client, as well as allowing the data to be saved and administrated. A fee–based hosting contract is an example of a combined internet contract that comprises elements of a safekeeping contract and – given reference to Art. 750 of the Civil Code – a mandate contract. Free of charge hosting is also an internet contract, but it shows similarity to a lending for use contract. The provisions of Title XVIII of Book Three of the Civil Code shall be applied by analogy, due to the fact that a material thing is required as a object of the lending for use contract. The category of internet contracts better reflects the specifics of obligational relationships generated by online transactions than the class of electronic contracts.