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Note 5 - Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2023

Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Text Block]

5. Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets:

Goodwill:

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed in our acquisitions.

The Company's Goodwill balance is $130.4 million as of March 31, 2023 and $130.4 million as of December 31, 2022. The Company's goodwill relates 83% ($107.7 million) to the Tucows Domains operating segment, 17% ($22.7 million) to the Ting operating segment and nil to the Wavelo operating segment.

Goodwill is not amortized, but is subject to an annual impairment test, or more frequently if impairment indicators are present. No impairment was recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022.

Other Intangible Assets:

Intangible assets consist of acquired brand, technology, customer relationships, surname domain names, direct navigation domain names and network rights. The Company considers its intangible assets consisting of surname domain names and direct navigation domain names as indefinite life intangible assets. The Company has the exclusive right to these domain names as long as the annual renewal fees are paid to the applicable registry. Renewals occur routinely and at a nominal cost. The indefinite life intangible assets are not amortized but are subject to impairment assessments performed throughout the year. As part of the normal renewal evaluation process during the periods ended March 31, 2023 and March 31, 2022, the Company assessed that all domain names that were originally acquired in the June 2006 acquisition of Mailbank.com Inc. that were up for renewal, should be renewed.

Intangible assets, comprising brand, technology, customer relationships and network rights are being amortized on a straight-line basis over periods of two to fifteen years.

In the first quarter of 2023 the Company purchased customer relationship assets through hosting agreements whereby customer assets and domain names were obtained. These customer assets are being amortized over seven years.

Net book value of acquired intangible assets consist of the following (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars):

	*Surname domain names*		*Direct navigation domain names*		*Brand*			*Customer relationships*			*Technology*			*Network rights*			*Total*
Amortization period	*indefinite life*		*indefinite life*		*7 years*			*3 - 7 years*			*2 - 7 years*			*15 years*

Balances, December 31, 2022	$	11,155	$	1,129	$	2,940		$	20,813		$	2,770		$	983		$	39,790
Acquisition of customer relationships		-		-		-			166			-			-			166
Amortization expense		-		-		(518	)		(2,174	)		(155	)		(25	)		(2,872	)
Balances, March 31, 2023	$	11,155	$	1,129	$	2,422		$	18,805		$	2,615		$	958		$	37,084

The following table shows the estimated amortization expense for each of the next 5 years and thereafter, assuming no further additions to acquired intangible assets are made (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars):

	*Year ending*
	*December 31,*
Remainder of 2023	$	7,505
2024		5,498
2025		4,095
2026		2,737
2027		1,476
Thereafter		3,489
Total	$	24,800