Registering and protecting nicknames
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You can register your nickname (using NickServ) in order to keep your permissions on channels or register them, protect your nickname, be able to request a hostname (using HostServ), make people know somebody doesn't impresonate you and so on.
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[edit] If you haven't any nickname registered yet
Connect to the network using any client or webchat if you haven't done so yet and execute the following command:
/msg NickServ REGISTER password
Now, everytime you connect to the network, you need to identify in order to get the access rights on channels you own. That's command:
/msg NickServ IDENTIFY password
If it's too long for you, some clients (webchat, mIRC, XChat, Konversation, etc.) also allow a shorthand, namely:
/id password
Also, you can type your password in a password field in the server parameters to get authenticated automatically.
[edit] If you already have some nickname
Our network provides a mechanism to maintain a group of nicks sharing a common password, settings, channel permissions, etc. In order to group a nickname_A to already registered nickname_B, you need to set your nickname to nickname_A and issue:
/msg NickServ GROUP nickname_B password
where password is a password you have used to register nickname_B.
[edit] Protecting your nicknames
NickServ, by default, doesn't kill people who try to use your nickname, but has a facility to do so. You can set time you have for identifying after which you (or a person using you nickname) get killed.
To set it to 60s, type:
/msg NickServ SET KILL ON
To set it to 20s, type:
/msg NickServ SET KILL QUICK
To disable autokill, type:
/msg NickServ SET KILL OFF
[edit] Requesting a virtual host (vhost)
If you want to hide your ISP, or just customize your hostname, you need to select one you want to have, that has only a-z, A-Z, 0-9, . and - characters, where "." must occur at least once in the middle of the hostname. In order to request it, type:
/msg HostServ REQUEST hostna.me
Now, you need to wait for an operator to accept it.
If you have more than one nick in a group, the virtual hosts don't propagate automatically to other nicknames, but you can issue /msg HostServ GROUP (where GROUP is just a keyword, you don't need to substitute it with anything) while using a nickname with a desired vhost to set for all nicknames in your group.
