Justin Hartman04 Jul
Posted by Justin Hartman in Afrigator, Projects, Regator, Things I Don't Like
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I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Regator.com went into private beta today and I picked it up via this Techcrunch article. They’ve also got great exposure on ReadWriteWeb and even Mashable.
These guys are a blog aggregator that not only use the Afrigator crocodile, similar domain name and colour scheme and I have to feel this is a little more than a coincidence.
There is little doubt that Mike, Stii, Mark and myself will need to speak to our legal team to find out what action we can take on this.
What do you guys think?
UPDATE: I’ve had a long chat with Scott from Regator and I’m now convinced it was a coincidence. Please see my updated post here.
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What makes this really fishy is that they registered the domain anonymously. There seems to be a mostly-authentic-looking MySpace page, but we all know how easily that could be faked.
Maybe it's just his unhealthy obsession with alligators? Lol...
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I am sure some amicable agreement can be reached out of court.
Always go the friendly way first this is the web :-)
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And anyways how much is lawyers gonna cost you to make an IP infringement case in an overseas jurisdiction...?
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Good luck with the lawyers, gents. It's worth the fight!
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don't even hesitate!
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Alligators are native to the US and China.
I don't know if you have any recourse except to try be better than them.
When life gives you poop, make poop juice.
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I am one of the co-founders of Regator.
We’re sorry you feel upset about this, but we had not even heard of afrigator until reading the comments everywhere. The reason we are called regator is because it a shortened form of agg-”regator” (that and the domain was available). It seemed to make sense. The alligator made an obvious mascot and they are green so we chose a palate to match.
I can honestly say that it is pure coincidence… and we are sorry if we have offended anyone, let alone you and the guys who are behind afrigator. It was not our intent.
p.s. as for the myspace page, it is real. Also, the domain is registered privately because we work at our home and we didn't want to have that everywhere. Nothing sinister, promise.
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Aussies appear not to have moved on from being a colony of criminals :)
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Both Afrigator and Regator derive their names from 'Aggregator'. The noun hiding in that word is 'gator' - as in, Alli-gator. It seems obvious to me that both brands have jumped on this. I doubt there is anything more to it than that.
There is no reason not to believe the Regator guys - who are being very nice about this, considering the allegations being made against them by everybody with a blog in SA.
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@Simon - I'm inclined to agree with you and I have personally sent Scott an email earlier. I see Scott has commented on this post and I'm hopeful we can chat about this and other stuff soon.
I do think however that we need to reserve judgement on the matter until we've actually seen regator live. Maybe Scott will give me beta access so I can make up my mind finally.
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