On Sunday 23 April 2023 at 3pm, there will be a national test of the UK Emergency Alerts service

[Helmuts]

just received a message of this one: https://www.gov.uk/alerts

.. in a case you've missed it

 

[Systreg]

Can they send me one when I catch a domain worth catching, whenever that'll be

 

[dee]

Can they send me one when I catch a domain worth catching, whenever that'll be

wait.... just how dangerous is your catch script?

 

[Systreg]

Sort of fatal at present

 

[Systreg]

No idea what's occuring at 15:52:17 on Sunday, I don't look at drops until the evening before drop day, might have to look at them early now.

 

[Systreg]

Hopefully 15:52:17 on Sunday

I see the domain now, a killer name but I have zero chance of catching that or anything else of that quality, or less lol.

I though I'd loaded more domains this month, but on checking logs, it's 73, out of those I've caught 1, and that was my own .me.uk name I dropped and re-caught, wasn't planning to but saw it had a €50 bid so stuck it in, should have left it to drop really.

 

[dee]

This would be great at a football match if its all in one hit

 

[ukbackorder]

So are they gearing up for a nuclear strike warning? Why the sudden practice?

 

[webber]

Can they send me one when I catch a domain worth catching

Integrate something like Slack, it's dead easy

Hopefully 15:52:17 on Sunday

Grabs popcorn...

So are they gearing up for a nuclear strike warning?

The UK is veeeery late to implement this system which has been a GSM spec since the Nokia 3310 days. In the US this exact system is also used for "amber alerts" of missing people and can be geo targeted

Any warning of an impending nuclear strike will be too late. We’d get maybe 2 minutes.

More like 10-20 minutes, I think. Depends where it would be coming from, hence why Russia is building a missile base in Belarus now – express delivery.

I’d rather not spend those two mins reading a message.

Can be in interesting experience

 

[Helmuts]

7 minutes left.. will see..

 

[Helmuts]

the tech works really well!! nice! respect for the good job!