Australian ISP Family Tree

BlazeNet inactive

Melbourne dialup ISP (reboot of Doctor Blaze BBS), a registered business name of Artel Computer Pty Ltd; folded into Hotkey Internet Services c. 2001 (ARTEL COMPUTER PTY LTD, ACN 005 884 980).

Founded in Melbourne, VIC. https://blaze.net.au

Name history

Name	From	To
BlazeNet	1995

Lifecycle

Kind	Date	Details	Refs
birth	1995	Reboot of Doctor Blaze BBS; a registered business name owned by Artel Computer Pty Ltd (ACN 005 884 980), P.O. Box 77, Kerrimuir VIC 3129.
death	Dec 2001 approx	Folded into Hotkey Internet Services; last independent homepage Jan 2001, redirect by Mar 2002. BlazeNet was absorbed into Hotkey Internet Services with customer migration on 10 Dec 2001 - death is Dec 2001, confirming the c. 2001 proposal.	archive archive
note	2018	BLAZENET PTY LTD (ACN 630 398 195) was registered 04 Dec 2018, ~17 years after this ISP folded, and is an unrelated later name-collision entity, not the operator of blaze.net.au.

Transitions

Direction	Type	Other party	Arm / notes	Year	Refs
outgoing	acquisition	HotKey Internet	100% BlazeNet folded into Hotkey Internet Services (via parent ISP Ltd.	c. 2001	archive

References

BlazeNet about (Wayback 1999) [archive] Wayback
ABR: BLAZENET PTY LTD ACN 630 398 195 (registered 2018; unrelated later entity, not the ISP operator) [gov] Wayback