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cc Megan Waine

Today's Sydney Morning Herald's Business section reported:

" . . . BHP's shareholders voted to proceed with the spin-off of BHP's steel
distribution and long products manufacturing business into a separate entity,
OneSteel."

A check of  onesteel.com shows:

    Domain Name.......... onesteel.com
    Registration Date.... 2000-04-06
    Expiry Date.......... 2002-04-06
    Organisation Name.... The Campaign Palace.
    Organisation Address. Level 6, 150 William St
    Organisation Address. Woolloomooloo
    Organisation Address. 2011
    Organisation Address. NSW
    Organisation Address. AUSTRALIA

Admin Name........... Megan Waine

Looking at onesteel.com.au gives:

    Organization-Name: Onesteel Pty Limited
    Organization-ACN: 000000000
    Organization-Postal: Level 6, 150 William Street Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
    Organization-Country-Code: AU
    Domain-Name: onesteel.com.au
    Admin-Contact: (MW111-AU)
    Tech-Contact: (MW111-AU)
    Handle: ONESTEEL-COM-AU-DOM
    Created: 1-May-2000
    Updated: 1-May-2000

The NIC Handle MW111-AU also refers to Megan Waine as  IT Manager for Campaign
Palace.  Note the Registrant for the first is The Campaign Palace and the
second Onesteel Pty Ltd.  The registration dates are 6 April and 1 May 2000,
respectively.

No ACN is shown but One Steel Pty Limited lodged a 205A Notification of
Resolution Changing Company Name on 22 June 2000.  It applied for a Change of
Company Status from Pty to Public a few days later on 26 June 2000.   So now
OneSteel Limited.

In between, on 27 April 2000, a DEBORAH RYDER in Harrisburg, PA registered
onesteel.net.  A little later, on 5 June 2000, a SYED HUSSAIN in Closter, NJ
registered the remaining onesteel.org.  Neither appear to be related to BHP or
OneSteel Limited.

At the time of writing, the domain name, onesteel.net.au has not been
registered.

I don't know when the shareholders met but I find it most surprising that a
billion dollar corporation like BHP:

    (a)    nearly lost onesteel.com.au
    (b)   did lose onesteel.net and onesteel.org
    (c)    hasn't cleaned up onesteel.net.au.

Perhaps some of these big corporations need to get their act together.  I also
wonder how INWW allowed the .com.au registration without an ACN as required.

Regards
Patrick Corliss