Bunbury Internet Service inactive
Regional WA ISP (Bunbury Internet Service, 7 Teede St, Bunbury) holding a full /21 (BUNBURYINT-AU 203.18.248.0-203.18.255.255) in the 1997 IP Network Index. The exact same /21 is now registered in APNIC whois to Ciphertel Pty Ltd, Unit 3/9 Bourke Street, Bunbury (object registered 4 Sep 2008) — a Bunbury-based licensed carrier/ISP — indicating Bunbury Internet Service's address space (and presumably its business) passed to Ciphertel around 2008 (ACN 071 721 894).
Name history
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| Bunbury Internet Service | 17 Aug 1995 |
Lifecycle
| Kind | Date | Details | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| birth | 17 Aug 1995 | Existing by 1997: allocated the contiguous /21 BUNBURYINT-AU 203.18.248.0-203.18.255.255 (Bunbury WA) in the 1997 IP Network Index. | archive archive archive |
| death | by 4 Sep 2008 (address space to Ciphertel) by | The /21 203.18.248.0-203.18.255.255 is registered in APNIC whois to Ciphertel Pty Ltd (netname CIPHERTEL-NON-AU), Unit 3/9 Bourke Street, Bunbury WA 6230, with the network object registered 4 Sep 2008. Ciphertel is a Bunbury-based licensed carrier/ISP. UNCERTAIN whether this was an acquisition of Bunbury Internet Service's business by Ciphertel or a pivot of the same business under the Ciphertel name; the transfer of the exact same address block to a same-city ISP is the documented evidence (dated by 4 Sep 2008). | official wayback-page |
Transitions
| Direction | Type | Other party | Arm / notes | Year | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | acquisition | Ciphertel | Bunbury Internet Service's /21 (203.18.248.0-203.18.255.255, the 1997 BUNBURYINT-AU block is registered in APNIC whois to Ciphertel Pty Ltd (Bunbury, network object registered 4 Sep 2008. UNCERTAIN: whether this was an acquisition of Bunbury Internet Service's business by Ciphertel or a pivot/continuation of the same business under the Ciphertel name — the block transfer is the documented evidence, the customer-base relationship is inferred. 'Gateway Internet' (a separate repo entry has no established link to this block. address space transfer. | 4 Sep 2008 | official |