(MONEY Magazine) – The reliably cheeky--and slightly obsessive--Web zine known as FundAlarm.com has unleashed a high-profile spat between Janus Enterprise manager James Goff and his former colleague Tom Marsico, now of Marsico Funds. Chief FundAlarmist Roy Weitz says he was "just poking around" on the Internet to see who owned fund-celebrity domain names such as PeterLynch.com. When he typed in TomMarsico.com, he found it was owned by none other than Goff, who snatched up the name last year. Weitz broke the story on his website, and soon Marsico was fuming about it to the New York Times. "Why would someone do that?" Marsico later wondered aloud when MONEY called.

"It was meant lightheartedly," says a Janus spokeswoman. (Goff didn't return our calls.) In any case, Goff has apologized and offered to give Marsico back the rights to his own name. That seems to have Marsico feeling a bit better. "He didn't mean it in a malicious way," Marsico now figures. "He thought of it as a prank."

--BORZOU DARAGAHI