Markus Schnermann

Country:	Germany
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Markus Schnermann is the Managing Director of Domain Invest S.A. and General Manager of KeywordDomains.com GmbH.

Career History

Mr. Schnermann has been active in the Internet Industry since 1997. He began as a private domainer, while working as an Online Marketing Specialist for a German Insurance Company. He founded consultdomain.de in 2000, which is one of the biggest German Online Forums for domainers.

In 2003, he founded KeywordDomains.com. He is often referred as the Superstar of Domain Industry because of his work.

Education

He has studied from Universität Dortmund and Priv. Arnold-Janssen-Gymnasium.

Personal Life

Markus lives with his wife, Susanne and two sons, Leander and Valentin in Dortmund Germany. He loves travelling, playing golf and riding his motor bike, a BMW 1200 GS

Early Life

Markus's father was a Brick maker, while his mother was a housewife and nurtured him with his three siblings. Schnermann had spastic cerebral palsy while he was young, because of which he required constant therapy. Markus tells that it took him too long to learn to speak or walk and when he made it to school the teachers never expected him to make a bright student. At the age of 11, his parents were told that he could never be independent. However, he started recovering as he grew.

Markus' Interest in computer developed in the early 80's he learned Basic on a Commodore C64, then worked with all of the PC generations.

He says that he never had a goal to become a domainer. He started work in the construction business and then turned into a life guard at a public school. When he meet Susanne, (now his wife) he decided that he wanted to do something more. Hence, he took education of handicapped children at the University of Dortmund and then worked with handicapped children.

While studying at University of Dortmund, he came across the internet. He published his first homepage on Geocities.com. He registered his first domain in 1997, after a trip to India. He decide to make a website about travelling India. However, when he tried to register a domain, he saw that all the generic names he could come up with were all taken. He registered the domain Alles-ueber-Indien.de (All about India) and thereupon, he started registering as much domain as he could afford.

He learnt web designing and programming and got a degree as a Web designer and learnt more about Internet and SEO. After doing an internship at an insurance company, he got his job as an online marketer from the same Insurance Company. While working there he gained more experience and ideas.

When he started selling domains, he used all the profits to buy more domains. Thereafter, he made keywordomains.com