stolen web site design

I was shocked when I open the web site of MarbleHost.com and Chennaiinfo.com and see that they have the same web design. Looks like Chennaiinfo has stolen the design from Marblehost. How can it be? I think there are some copyrights rules and when they are broken the web hosting company that commited that robbery must be punished.
Any ideas?

One thing with hosting companies is MOST of them are not actual companies. Most of them are only resellers and they usually are given 10-20 templates to choose from. More than likely, these two are reselling the same hosting and just have used the same template. BTW these are companies to avoid, as your paying more money and getting no extra benefits and usually worse customer support. In no way am I stating anything against the two domains listed above, as I have never done business with either of them.

As JustinStudios has said these two companies are just using the same template, these templates can be downloaded from many sites like template monster. (or just by searching your fav torrent site)

imo bad pratice for any hosting company but it's a fast way of getting a site up and running

But I have heard that template monster isn't very good.

That may be true, i've never used them so i don't know. However there are may sites that offer templates and as Justin Said some companies that offer reseller accounts also offer templates to go with the package

Template monster is not the only template site out there. And there are tons of FREE templates sites as well so ... seeing 2 sites with the same template is not such a big deal. Of course, it only proves how amateur they are.

Off Topic: I've used TemplateMonster through a client, they bought a Flash website from them and at that time if you bought the template outright you got the .fla. Else, you just got a .swf . This was a real problem as the site's text and everything was saved inside the .swf and was not used externally. After about a month and a half the client finally bought a .swf grabber and I got the .fla from that.

On Topic: Is it bad to use a template and then just put your name on it? Yep, do most people care? Nope. You'll find people like this more than likely don't know a thing about webdevelopment, and more than likely have no clue what hosting is. They just are resellers and they make a few bucks for doing nothing.

Justin, does your post imply that Marblehost.com initial design wasn't original? There's their copyright sign on the web site www.marblehost.com.

I'm not stating whether it is or not man. I don' t know. But I do know, most people who use templates put a copyright on it anyhow as they see other sites do it and don't know what its for.

Frankly speaking I see no point to use templates of the other company. Chennaiinfo.com hasn't even change the title of the MarbleHost.com on their web site. Shame on them.

It's really a pity when the other company uses the web design of the web hosting company that has already been in the web hosting business for a long while. But I think MarbleHost.com will not lose anything because of that.

It's always a pity when the web design of your company is stolen by somebody. But I hope the reputation of MarbheHost.com hasn't damaged.

Anyway MarbleHost.com is a reputable company and they are known with their top-notch services. Think they'll be lucky with their business.

How should one protect his web site or its elements from copying?
I also wonder if Marblehost.com has filed a suite against chennainfo.com?

if a proper company is gonna use a template they should either buy the rights to the template meaning only they can use it or pay a proffesional designer/coder to make there site I would suggest the latter

Any Marblehost.com representatives here? I'm just wondering what was their reaction like?