Over the course of the last few months, a couple of people have emailed me and commented about my selling more domain names lately. Perhaps it was spurred by my NameJet auctions, sale listings, or possibly people monitoring my domain name purchases and sales. Whatever the case may be, it is true that I have been selling more domain names lately.

When I got involved in the domain investment space, it was as a quick flipper. I would buy a domain name and hope to sell it ASAP. The margins varied, but I did pretty well buying and selling domain names quickly. I did this for quite some time.

A couple of years ago, I shifted my

I miss living in Manhattan, primarily because of all the food options that aren’t available to me in the suburbs. I read an article in Wired about a new dining option in New York City called Maple, and it looks like the startup wisely secured the Maple.com  domain name last month.

Customers of Maple can order a meal via the app, and the high quality meal will quickly be delivered. Making this service unique, Maple  does not have a restaurant for diners to visit, and deliveries are set up based on the location of the order rather than the time placed. Maple’s co-founders (David Chang of Momofuku, Caleb Merkl, Akshay Navle and William Gaybrick)  have experience with food, technology, and logistics. All of these skills  help to make Maple a unique dining option in Manhattan.

When the New York Times published  an article about Maple in November of 2014, the company had been using TryMaple.com for its website. The NYT article mentioned that the company had secured $4 million in funding at that time. I would imagine a healthy portion of the startup’s  funding went to acquire the Maple.com domain name.

I recall inquiring about buying

There was a catastrophic earthquake in Nepal today. The death toll is in the hundreds and rapidly rising, and the number of injured is in the thousands. This tragic situation continues to unfold, as aftershocks hit the region and more information is shared.

It seems that every time there is a major disaster or tragedy, there are people who try to capitalize on it by buying associated domain names. In the case of the recent earthquake in Nepal, I want to share one important domain name registration that is going to help people who have been hard hit by the earthquake and in need of assistance: NepalEarthquakeRelief.com.

If you visit NepalEarthquakeRelief.com, you’ll see that it forwards to ShikshyaFoundationNepal.org, a non-profit organization in Nepal. A Whois search shows that NepalEarthquakeRelief.com was registered today by Jeffrey Wolfe, who is one of the founders of Crowdrise, a startup that uses crowdsourcing to raise money for good causes.

I reached out to Wolfe for a comment about the domain name registration and fundraising efforts, and here’s what he had to say: