[PLUG] What is WebsiteOS? Where is it's home URL? Is it open?

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, David Mandel wrote:
> I notice a number of ISPs seem to use something called WebsiteOS as a 
> web interface to let virtual domain owners add and control email 
> accounts, web sites, DNS entries, analyze their log files, etc.
>
> Does anyone know who makes this and how it is licensed?

Well, seeing that <URL: http://www.websiteos.com/ > is 403 and
<URL: http://help.websiteos.com/ > reads "This domain has no homepage. 
Please link to this site via your hosting provider.", I would have to 
guess "Very Proprietary".

There are other pages available via the help.websiteos.com subdomain which 
indicate that this certainly is a support site for this software.  Whether 
or not it is operated by the manufacturer is another story.  While they're 
used a whole lot, they don't seem to be doing much in the way of overt 
marketting.  [Which means what?  They're making all of their sales through 
insider contacts and cold calls?]

Is it possible that this approach is intended to thwart free software 
clones of their (probably trivial) functionality?

The administrative and technical contacts for the domain are both just 
some low-rent registrar that doesn't actually give you control of your 
domains.

J.
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