WWW- Internet personality Cindy Margolis was pleased to read in this column that porn star Jenna Jameson is feuding with her myspace.com Web designer.
The 40-year-old Margolis is miffed at Jameson because she bought up all the domain names that contain slight misspellings of Margolis’ home page, cindymargolis.com, and has been using them to direct traffic to ClubJenna.com.
“My unwanted link to the world of porn has cost me countless endorsement opportunities and hundreds of thousands of dollars, as well as a ton of magazine layouts,” Margolis complained to Lowdown in an E-mail.
Margolis says she’s not, repeat not, a porn star. On her Web site she calls herself “Host, Spokesperson, Supermodel, Actress, Producer, Author, Mother” and “nothing less than an American success story.”
Jameson’s husband and business partner, Jay Grdina, gave this response: “A Webmaster of ours registered that URL years ago. It was offered back to Cindy at least four years ago when we realized it was pointing to our site. The traffic on the URL is nominal; it’s less than 20 unique page views a month. Again, we will offer the URL back to her, just let us know where she would like it ported to” – meaning, where does Cindy want to have the traffic directed?
Margolis’ camp was unmoved.
“It isn’t so much the traffic, it’s the fact that she’s still linked with porno sites and porno things,” argued Margolis’ PR rep, Neil Cirucci.
“We’ve had people tell us they think she’s a porn star!” said Cirucci. “People have searched and lumped her in with the porn industry.”
