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Note 11 - Costs to Obtain and Fulfill a Contract | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements |
Capitalized Contract Costs [Text Block] | 11. Costs to obtain and fulfill a contract (a) Deferred costs of acquisition We recognize an asset for the incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer if we expect the period of benefit of those costs to be longer than one year and those costs are expected to be recoverable under the term of the contract. We have identified certain sales incentive programs that meet the requirements to be capitalized, and therefore, capitalized them as contract costs in the amount of $1.4 million at December 31, 2019 . Capitalized contract acquisition costs are amortized into operating expense based on the transfer of goods or services to which the assets relate which typically range from two – ten years. For the year ended December 31, 2019 , the Company capitalized $0.9 million and also amortized $0.9 million of contract costs, respectively. There was no impairment loss recognized in relation to the costs capitalized during the year ended December 31, 2019 . The breakdown of the movement in the contract costs balance for the year ended December 31, 2019 is as follows (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars):
|  | Year ended December 31, 2019 |
Balance, beginning of period |  | $ | 1,390 |
Capitalization of costs |  |  | 924 |
Amortization of costs |  |  | (914 | )
Balance, end of period |  | $ | 1,400 |
When the amortization period for costs incurred to obtain a contract with a customer is less than one year, we have elected to apply a practical expedient to expense the costs as incurred. These costs include our internal sales compensation program and certain partner sales incentive programs. (b) Deferred costs of fulfillment Deferred costs to fulfill contracts generally consist of domain registration costs which have been paid to a domain registry, and are capitalized as Prepaid domain name registry and ancillary services fees. These costs are deferred and amortized over the life of the domain which generally ranges from one to ten years. For the year ended December 31, 2019 , the Company capitalized $161.4 million and also amortized $169.1 million of contract costs. We also acquired $10.3 million of prepaid domain name registry and ancillary service fees in the Ascio acquisition, which took place on March 18, 2019. There was no impairment loss recognized in relation to the costs capitalized during the year ended December 31, 2019 . Amortization expense is primarily included in cost of revenue. The breakdown of the movement in the prepaid domain name registry and ancillary services fees balance for the year ended December 31, 2019 is as follows (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars).
|  | Year ended December 31, 2019 |
Balance, beginning of period |  | $ | 106,527 |
Acquired in a business combination 1 |  |  | 10,318 |
Deferral of costs |  |  | 161,385 |
Recognized costs |  |  | (169,063 | )
Balance, end of period |  | $ | 109,167 |
1 The Company acquired Ascio on March 18, 2019. As part of the transition, the Company acquired active domain name contracts with a terms ranging from 1 - 10 years, for which fees to suppliers were paid in advance.

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