The website for Goldsearchers of Southern Nevada originally started as a section within a commercial website belonging to one of the club members.

That individual then registered the domain name "goldsearchers.com" as his own and carried on as the webmaster for the club's business as a separate site. That individual was later found to be conducting a home loan scam operation and fleeced a number of senior citizens to the tune of over a half a million dollars. He later left the club and took the Goldsearchers domain name with him.

The club president then had another club member register the domain name "goldsearcher.com" ( singular ). The website was then designed and operated thru an individual in Florida. That individual was thought to be building and maintaining the site for free. As soon as he put the site up he began to demand payment. After a short time It became nearly impossible to get things posted such as an up to date calendar and results of activities like monthly outings and our bi-annual campouts. After several months of trying to deal with that situation another change was made.

The domain was turned over to the current webmaster. A new format was developed and content changed. At that time, the most up to date software was used. Early on it was discovered that the software was more advanced than the "content server" service provider could handle at that time. It took a few months for them to catch up and this caused some "site unavailable" days while they upgraded. Since that time. There have been no service problems.

During several years the webmaster received updates and requests from various club officers and members by phone and e-mail. All needed changes were made promptly. Nearly all of the photos on the site were taken by the webmaster at club events. Nearly all of the links were researched for content that would further our prospecting goals by the webmaster. Commercial links are limited to those who have, in the past, provided direct support to our club or are located in our immediate vicinity.

Maintaining the website is not a club office or committee task and doesn't need to be. It was never intended that the webmaster would be the photographer or an investigative reporter to provide content for the club site. Over the years, a few people have sent material. On one event a club member sent photos from a gpaa outing and tried to pass them off as our outing.

In the last year on at least two occasions there were discussions about putting the "Highgrader" on the website. The current president and various "Highgrader" editors were told to send what ever they wanted and it would get it on the site. To Date there has been nothing sent in. The current club officers "do not call" and "do not send e-mail's" to the webmaster. Any claims to the contrary are false!

E-mailing the webmaster is very simple. All that is necessary is to enter any character, name or number before the @goldsearcher.com. You don't need to have the correct name or spell it correctly. Any e-mail address thru the site that is not all ready assigned goes to the webmaster by default. There is an answering machine on the phone and FAX. It's simple to leave a message after the beep.