ABN Lookup website is down

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  1. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    Hi All,
    The ABN Lookup website is unavailable. Does anybody know where we can find it apart from https://abr.business.gov.au/? We use it to check the GST Status of companies in a business process.
     
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    My colleague thinks the website might have been attacked :(
     
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    Terry_w Lawyer, Tax Adviser and Mortgage broker in Sydney Business Member

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    can the asic website be used?
     
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    all ok now.
     
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    Yup, just used it.
     
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    Paul@PAS Tax, Accounting + SMSF + All things Property Tax Business Plus Member

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    What by a rogue chinese agent seeking someone's ABN ? The ABN lookup isnt linked to the ATO systems and is cloud based. It has some "data farming" security to stop bots but is a one way data feed and wont compromise ATO systems. It can also be offline so it shows unchanged info which corrects when its back online. A recent change around June means when a company name changes with ASIC the data updates on ABN lookup too. Previously they were not linked and the ABN register needed a update manually.
     
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    No idea, but they got it up again soon enough, so it was ok. Maybe some expired certificate or something.
     
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