How often is the Fame Registry updated?

Our database which tracks porn stars is updated at least once per month but sometimes two or three times. It really just depends on if we are adding new starlets or links to new photosets or video clips. Some features however get updated only once per year such as the # of awards a starlet has won since simply put, awards shows only take place once a year.

How do you pick which porn stars will be included?

It's based on a few factors. The first and most obvious is are we able to track the porn star in question based solely on her name? For example there is a porn star by the name of August Night who now simply goes by the name of August. The sources we use to track popularity of the girls would prohibit us from properly tracking this porn star simply because well a) she only has a first name and b) her first name also happens to be a month in the calendar so any data we may get would be corrupted by the other uses or meanings of that word. Next we check to see if they have an official website or at the very least a myspace page. If they do we move on to the final step which to see if they have been in at least a few movies. If they have then we will typically add her to our database.

What specific sources of data do you track?

Well we can't give away all of our secrets but in general we track publicly avaiable data such as Alexa rankings, how many friends a porn star has on their Myspace page, how many industry awards a porn star has won including the three main adult industry awards - AVN, XRCO and FAME. We also track how many times a day someone searches for a porn stars name in the search engines and how popular the porn star's name is in Google.

What is the point system?

It's actually a very complicated system but the general idea is this .... we look at any single source such as the # of MySpace. First we list off every porn star in our database that has a Myspace page and then we list off how many friends each of those starlets have and then rank them in order of who has the most MySpace friends. The winners of this are given points towards overall popularity. Next we move on to another subject such as AVN awards and list off every porn star who has ever won an AVN award. Those who have won the most awards are awarded points toward overall popularity. Next we list every porn star who has an official website. We enter their website at Alexa and see where Alexa ranks them based on their own system of traffic ranking. Those who have the most traffic to their website according to Alexa will be given points towards their overall popularity. This goes on and on for each source of data we have until finally all of the points are added up and we have a winner for the most popular porn star.

Why is Jenna Jameson not listed?

Believe it or not but this is actually the most commonly asked question we get and the answer is simple. Years ago Jenna Jameson turned her nose up at the industry that made her a multi-millionaire and decided she should no longer be called a porn star. So in compliance with her wishes, we will no longer list her as a "porn star" and as such she can't be ranked as the most popular porn star in the world if she's no longer a porn star.

How did you start all of this?

A friend of mine is big into domaining which is the business of buying domain names at wholesale prices and trying to resale them for a small profit. When helping him write a script to gather data used to value a domain name, I realized the same type of public data could also be used to value a porn star, since like a porn star, the value of the domain name was based on the popularity of the words or names that make up the domain name. For example the word Love is more popular than Hate so the domain name love.com has more value than hate.com. Based on the popularity of the keyword love alone, Love.com is worth millions whereas Hate.com wouldn't really be worth even $250,000. Those very same concepts apply to porn star names. The name Tera Patrick is searched more on the internet than say Gina Lynn so by the very nature of the popularity of her name, she is worth more, if she were a domain. I took that concept a step further and started calculating things in like how many myspace friends they have and how many awards they each won and how many times they were in major magazines like Penthouse and Hustler and ran the numbers and it worked. It procuded for the first time a real, trackable history of porn stars and who is most famous right now.