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Note 11 - Cost to Obtain and Fulfill a Contract

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

11. Costs to obtain and fulfill a Contract:

Deferred costs of fulfillment

Deferred costs to fulfill contracts primarily consist of domain registration costs which have been paid to a domain registry, and are capitalized as deferred costs of fulfillment. These costs are deferred and amortized over the life of the domain which generally ranges from one to ten years. The Company also defers certain technology design and data migration costs it incurs to fulfill its performance obligations contained in our platform services arrangements. For the nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company deferred $131.6 million and amortized $129.7 million of contract costs. There was no impairment loss recognized in relation to the costs capitalized during the nine months ended September 30, 2023. Amortization expense of deferred costs is included in cost of revenue.

The breakdown of the movement in the deferred costs of fulfillment balance for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 is as follows (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars).

	*September 30, 2023*

Balance, beginning of period	$	110,674
Deferral of costs		131,616
Recognized costs		(129,652	)
Balance, end of period	$	112,638