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Your website account is tied to your IRC nickname: three steps, in this order — reserve the nickname on the network, create the account here, then confirm from that nickname.

⚠ You will be asked for two different passwords: the one for your nickname on the network, and the one for your account on the website. They must not be the same. The website only sees the first one in the forms that ask for it: the fallback identification at the bottom of this page, a channel’s reserved access, and “Forgot password” for a nickname.

Step 1 — reserve your nickname on the network

Your website account relies on a nickname that already belongs to you on the network. If that is not done yet, there are two ways:

From the chat, with nothing to install:

Enter the chat with the nickname you want, then use “Reserve this nickname” in the box at the top right.

From an IRC client, if you have one:

/msg OverNick REGISTER <network password>

⚠ The website password is separate from the network one. Do not reuse the same one: one unlocks your nickname on the network, the other your account here. Reserving the nickname from the chat or an IRC client does not send the first one through the website.

Step 2 — create your account on the website

Already created your account here?

⚠ This box is only for that. If you are signing up for the first time, the form on the left is the one you need.

What you received. When the account is created, a 8-character code is shown on screen only once. It is never sent by email.

What to do with it. Send it back from IRC, identified (IDENTIFY) under the nickname you are signing up:

/msg OverNick VERIFY <your code>

Sending it back is what proves the nickname is yours. Until you do, the account is not active.

It is only valid for 15 minutes. After that, or if you left the page before writing it down, it no longer works — and it cannot be recovered. In that case, and only in that case, request a new one — from this same browser: anywhere else, simply create the account again, an unconfirmed sign-up is replaced.

Forgot your password? Request a reset link — it goes to your account’s email address. ⚠ This is not the same as the code above: this one opens the website account, the code proves the nickname.

Nickname protection

Identify without leaving the website

A registered nickname is only protected once you have identified. This is usually done on IRC; you can also request it here.

The simplest way is the chat: enter it under this nickname, then use “Identify” in the box at the top right. Your password then goes straight to the service, over the chat connection — it does not pass through the website.

Go to the chat

The form below is a fallback, if you have neither the chat nor an IRC client at hand. ⚠ It sends your network password through the website: the web server sees it for as long as it takes to pass it on. It is neither stored nor logged, but it is seen — which happens on neither of the other two paths.

You must be connected to the network under this nickname when you make the request. That presence is what makes the proof: the website decides nothing, it passes the request on — the service checks that someone is wearing this nickname, verifies the password, then opens the identification and tells you so on IRC.

The password asked for is the network one (the one from OverNick REGISTER), not the website one.

IRC nickname *

Exactly the nickname you are connected under right now.

Network password *

The website neither stores nor checks it: it is encrypted so that only the service can read it, and the service decrypts it, checks it, then erases it.

Or, from your client: /msg OverNick IDENTIFY <password>

⚠ Three wrong passwords on the same nickname within 24 h — here, or through IDENTIFY, GHOST, DROP, SUPPRIME — lock it for 15 minutes, then longer at each repeat (24 h at most). To unlock it early: log in to your website account, or go through “forgotten password”; an operator can also unlock it from the panel.