Hey There Steemit

Hi everyone. I’m a teacher and book publisher who invests in domain names and cryptocurrencies. Steemit was recommended to me by a friend in the domainer community.

I first jumped on the internet way back in 1995, however, unfortunately I didn't register any domains at that time. In the late '90s I used a free web page creation site called Expage to promote an offline publishing venture.

It wasn't until January 2007 that I registered my first domain (again publishing related) and this was simply used as a redirect to a Squidoo page. Squidoo was an article writing platform that was later acquired by a similar site called HubPages. Through the Squidoo forums I learned how to get very specific niche pages to rank and earn affiliate income via Amazon, eBay and ClickBank. In turn, I sold Squidoo pages to others and created custom pages via request, and also HubPages. This all went really well for a few years until Squidoo changed some of their rules and Google tweaked their algorithm. So, I started searching for an online income alternative which ended up being domaining.

In 2012 I began the adventure of buying and selling domains. It was a steep learning curve, involving successes and failures. Thankfully, there are many fantastic free resources that contributed to my domain education, enabling me to avoid some of the mistakes common to industry newcomers and to make profitable investments that I would otherwise have missed.

My next online discovery was Bitcoin, which I read about on a domainer forum in May 2013. Investing in this space has been like getting on a roller coaster in the dark, never knowing when the next thrilling climb, terrifying plunge or dizzying loop back to where you started is about to occur.

Now it’s time for Steemit. Thanks for having me on board. I'm looking forward to learning and contributing here.