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Hawknet inactive

Small regional ISP in North Richmond (Hawkesbury), NSW. Held a full /21 in the 1997 IP Network Index (HAWKNET-AU 203.33.112.0-203.33.119.255); 1999 site had customer account/usage pages (ColdFusion) and hosted personal user sites; ISP-era hosting continued into early 2006. The domain's farewell page announced that 'Hypermax Internet' would cease internet/email services from 16 Jun 2006, diverting customers to Telstra BigPond. The corporate shell continued as Hawknet Australia Licensing Pty Ltd (ACN 093 338 884; GST cancelled 1 Jan 2020); the domain later hosted a personal blog behind a Cloudflare check.

Founded in North Richmond, NSW. http://www.hawknet.com.au

Name history

NameFromTo
Hawknet by Dec 1997

Aliases

Lifecycle

KindDateDetailsRefs
birth by Dec 1997 by Existing by 1997: allocated the contiguous /21 HAWKNET-AU 203.33.112.0-203.33.119.255 (North Richmond NSW) in the 1997 IP Network Index, and hawknet.com.au first captured by the Wayback Machine 21 Dec 1997. archive archive
note May 1999 by ISP-era operation evidenced by Wayback captures of customer account/usage pages (a-accounts.cfm, a-getusage.cfm, May 1999) and hosted personal user sites (e.g. hawknet.com.au/-jkerr, -ozrepublic) — classic small-ISP hosting pattern. Not to be confused with HawkNet Labs (hawknet-labs, Leichhardt NSW, founded 2024), an unrelated later entity. archive
death 16 Jun 2006 (services ceased) by hawknet.com.au carried an ISP farewell page announcing 'From Friday 16th June 2006 Hypermax will no longer provide your internet access and email services' and diverting customers to Telstra BigPond — the end of ISP service delivery on the domain. ISP-era hosting is evidenced up to early 2006 (customer user pages captured Jan-May 2006: ~afx, ~altitude, ~dsimon, ~gin, ~henriw, ~hrmoller). The corporate shell continued as Hawknet Australia Licensing Pty Ltd (ACN 093 338 884, Hawkesbury NSW; ABN active from 16 Jun 2000; GST cancelled 1 Jan 2020) — a licensing entity, not the ISP operator. NOTE: the exact Hawknet-to-Hypermax brand relationship is not fully documented; the farewell page is the operative closure evidence. archive archive official wayback-live

Transitions

DirectionTypeOther partyArm / notesYearRefs
outgoing acquisition Telstra Absorbed by Telstra BigPond. 2006 archive

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