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Tuesday October 18, 2005 // By Sandy

The nerd-love dilemma

Matt taps into something I’ve been not-so-secretly thinking about recently: a URL for the both of us. Eventually we’re going to want a website dedicated to the wedding, which will then morph into a one we use as a married couple, and then as a family. This domain, santheo.com, was something I registered long before I knew Sarah, and really doesn’t fit as a handle for the both of us. We need something new, and I’m having a hard time figuring out what it should be.

A while ago Sarah and I got invited to a wedding, and the invitation came with a wedding URL listed on it. Sarah’d never seen this before. It was something beyond amusing to her, and she swore right then that she wouldn’t have anything so tacky for her own wedding. We were far from talking marriage at that point, so it would have been premature to say what I was thinking, which was “That’s what you think, Luddite.” Now I think she knows better to suggest something so silly. It isn’t a question of whether we’ll have a wedding website, but rather what it’ll be called.

I’d like to pick out a domain that can persist past the wedding and be used as a online hub for our family. That makes sandyandsarah.com out of the question. Weisz.com is taken, as is weisz.org — although, we’re not sure yet what Sarah will be doing w/r/t the last name, so it may be weird to use any Weisz-based domain. Any attempts at producing an amalgam of our last names results in mere jibberish. All Titania-based domains have been booked.

So, for the sake of our wedding guests, and the long-term respectability of our family, help us out. Got any suggestions?

COMMENTS
Posted by Luke // Oct 18, 22:13
weisz.xxx
Posted by Matt // Oct 19, 12:22
sarahandsandysittinginatree.com
Posted by Matt // Oct 19, 12:26
Sorry, I didn’t read the instructions.

how about weiszfamily.com? that would include partners with different last names
Posted by Luke // Oct 19, 14:00
The domain name you searched for is available with the following extensions:

nerdlove.org
nerdlove.info
nerdlove.us
nerdlove.biz
nerdlove.tv
nerdlove.cc
nerdlove.bz
nerdlove.name
nerdlove.ws
Posted by Jim // Oct 19, 14:45
And of those choices, nerdlove.tv is clearly the nerdiest, says someone who has a .tv domain. Unfortunately, it’s somewhat more expensive to register .tv than, say, .com—I was kinda hoping the price would include a Tuvalan mail-order bride, but if it does, she hasn’t shown up yet, although I understand it does take quite a while to paddle across the Pacific.
Posted by DCE // Oct 19, 14:50
Great minds do indeed think alike (which is probably an unpleasant thought for Luke). As I read this post I was thinking that the name “nerdlove” would be perfect!
Posted by Luke // Oct 19, 16:56
The only thing that would make it nerdier would be a Scrabble-like anagram.

Loverden.com?
Posted by Matt // Oct 20, 01:09
7 letters max, Luke. Let’s not go crazy and start ignoring basic rules.
Posted by Big Ben // Oct 23, 12:31
How about todayweareafam.com in honor of the touchstone event that helped drag you two together?
Posted by Sandor // Oct 25, 09:50
Ben wins.
Posted by Tony Becker // Oct 28, 12:51
I’m compelled to point out that sweisz.org isn’t taken. So, depending on future last name decisions, a possibility. You both have S-names.

Lieberweisz is also available.

Currently: I am trying to decide whether to re-start Fort Pedro under its prior name, or under a new name since now that name is permanently associated with Napoleon Dynamite.
Posted by Adrienne // Oct 28, 19:00
I like Lieberweisz; sounds like that Swiss flower or a fizzy wine.
Posted by nnnikki // Nov 1, 09:34
My friends ben and lorraina (whom you now know, i think) leapfrogged the whole surname thing for their wedding website (which wasn’t cheesy, just basic info about hotels, dates, times) and registered benandlorraina.com, as well as lorrainaandben.com. looks to me like sandyandsarah.com as well as sarahandsandy.com are both available…