diff --git a/app/models/person.rb b/app/models/person.rb
index 6cc255e8b..8bd8aaa73 100644
--- a/app/models/person.rb
+++ b/app/models/person.rb
@@ -30,19 +30,11 @@ class Person
 
   before_destroy :remove_all_traces
   before_validation :clean_url
-  after_create :ensure_diaspora_handle
   validates_presence_of :url, :profile, :serialized_key 
   validates_format_of :url, :with =>
      /^(https?):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,5})?(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.*)?$/ix
   
   
-  def ensure_diaspora_handle
-    if self.owner?
-      self.diaspora_handle = self.owner.diaspora_handle
-      self.save
-    end
-  end
-  
   def self.search(query)
     Person.all('$where' => "function() { return this.diaspora_handle.match(/^#{query}/i) ||
                this.profile.first_name.match(/^#{query}/i) ||
diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index caf39d2f7..01c1b78f6 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ class User
   key :pending_request_ids, Array
   key :visible_post_ids,    Array
   key :visible_person_ids,  Array
-
+  
+  key :url, String
+  
   one :person, :class_name => 'Person', :foreign_key => :owner_id
 
   many :friends,           :in => :friend_ids,          :class_name => 'Person'
@@ -32,7 +34,11 @@ class User
 
   many :aspects, :class_name => 'Aspect'
 
-  before_validation_on_create :setup_person
+
+  after_create :setup_person
+  after_create :seed_aspects
+
+
   before_validation :do_bad_things 
   before_save :downcase_username
   
@@ -286,9 +292,13 @@ class User
   def self.instantiate!( opts = {} )
     opts[:person][:diaspora_handle] = opts[:email]
     opts[:person][:serialized_key] = generate_key
-    User.create!( opts)
+    User.create!(opts)
   end
-	 	
+	 
+	def self.create(opts ={})
+	  puts opts.inspect
+	end 
+	 
   def terse_url
     terse = self.url.gsub(/(https?:|www\.)\/\//, '')
     terse = terse.chop! if terse[-1, 1] == '/'
@@ -305,7 +315,7 @@ class User
 
   def setup_person
     self.person.serialized_key ||= User.generate_key.export
-    #self.person.diaspora_handle ||= self.diaspora_handle
+    self.person.diaspora_handle ||= self.diaspora_handle
     self.person.save!
   end
 
diff --git a/app/views/devise/registrations/new.html.haml b/app/views/devise/registrations/new.html.haml
index 4b461fa01..212818f41 100644
--- a/app/views/devise/registrations/new.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/devise/registrations/new.html.haml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 = form_for(resource, :as => resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name)) do |f|
   = devise_error_messages!
+  = f.hidden_field :url, :value => request.host
   %p
     = f.label :username
     = f.text_field :username
diff --git a/spec/models/request_spec.rb b/spec/models/request_spec.rb
index 12b781b0f..715a310b9 100644
--- a/spec/models/request_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/request_spec.rb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ describe Request do
     xml = request.to_xml.to_s
 
     xml.include?(@user.person.diaspora_handle).should be true
-    xml.include?(@user.url).should be true
+    xml.include?(@user.person.url).should be true
     xml.include?(@user.profile.first_name).should be true
     xml.include?(@user.profile.last_name).should be true
   end