I saw a posting here on the forums regarding GatorGigabyte which I'd never heard of before;

Gator Gigabyte Launches Gigabit Hosting Packages with 10x Speeds

On their site they claim to be the #1 Rated Hosting Provider. I've never heard of them before, have you?

Are they Hostgator with just a different skin? The gator graphic is VERY similar but different just enough to not be a copyright issue (i think).

Anyone have any information on these guys? Are they a branch of HostGator? I didn't see any mention of them either on the hostgator site, and didn't see anything on gatorgigabyte to say they were a sister company etc.

If they are separate companies, it would seem that the gigabyte place is trying to piggyback on the name of Gator.

Whois says their domain name was first registered in June 2010. Amazing that they've reached the #1 Rated Hosting Provider status in just 8 short months.

Any thoughts or information?

There's no relation between the two. It's a piggybacker.

Looking at the whois and also tracert on the IP's I would tend to agree that they are just a piggybacker and have no affiliation to hostgator

Hostgator is in Texas and GatorGigabyte is in California. Also hostgator is the registrar for their domain and has a public whois where as GatorGigabyte is reged at namecheap and has a private registration.

Actually after more looking it might be linked to vpslatch.com..

GatorGigaByte.com -> 67.220.80.149
VPSLatch.net -> 67.220.80.148

also the poster is VL-Adam

"VL-Adam" need to reply this thread. As right now he is representing Gator Gigabyte. I hope he should be able to answer all these questions.

I'd just never seen the site before until I saw that press release and it struck me as odd. Figured I'd check in with others here on it. While the graphic for cartoon gator is definitely different, it's close enough to be a potential issue. I sure wouldn't authorize that graphic for my own site, it's a potential lawsuit that I wouldn't want to have the time to defend.

From Robtex:

As soon as I saw the Gator on their site, I thought to myself, (self) Wow, that's just too similar to Hostgator - might cause problems down the line! Yipes.

a great site like hostgator , never , there is no site which is better than hostgator i think so

I actually like their site design better than hostgator's..

I like the design, don't get me wrong, but it just looked very similar and was confused if hostgator was branching into something new which I hadn't heard about. Found some threads at WHT discussing the same thing and some other sites like hawk host and frog host too which are the same style character type sites. Seems to be a little bit of a ruckus over there too regarding legality, site rips, inspiration etc etc.

(always watching the competition)

In this business, knowing and understanding your competition is essential.

Their logo does look very similar to Host Gator's...

Hello,

My name is Adam Jack, owner of both VPSLatch.net and GatorGigabyte.com. I recently acquired GatorGigabyte in a sale from an acquaintance of mine in the hosting industry. I can assure all of you that GatorGigabyte is is no way, shape, or form, related to HostGator.com, nor are we attempting to "piggy-back" off their company. The gator simply symbolizes the state where the previous owner went to for college (University of Florida), Florida is known as "Gator Country" (mostly because of the swamps and country areas, also for the University of Florida mascot).

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to PM me, or shoot me an e-mail at adam.j@gatorgigabyte.com.

Have a great day!

Only question:

Are you going to upgrade design soon?

No nobody can beats hostgator , king crocodile of host ..

Thanks for the update - clears up any confusion about the site.