How to Register a User Name on Freenode
The Freenode network is home to many participants in free software and free content projects (such as wikis). The registration process is simple and only takes a few minutes. Here are the steps.
- Join the Freenode network. Open your favorite IRC client and type:
/server irc.freenode.net
- Choose a user name or nick. This user name should consist only of the letters from A-Z, the numbers from 0-8 and certain symbols such as “_” and “-”. It may have a maximum of 16 characters
- Change your user name to the user name you have chosen. Suppose you chose the nick “rocketship”. Type the following in the window titled Freenode:
/nick rocketship
- Register your nick or user name. Type the following command and replace “your_password” with a password that will be easy to remember, and replace “your_email_address” with your email address.
/msg nickserv register your_password your_email_address
- Verify your registration. After you register, you will not be able to identify to NickServ until you have verified your registration. To to this, check your email an account verification code.
- Group an alternate nickname with your main one. If you would like to register an alternate nickname, first switch to the alternate nickname that you want while you are identified as the main one, then group your nicks together with this command:
/msg nickserv group
- Identify with Nickserv. Each time you connect, you should sign in, or “identify” yourself, using the following command:
/msg nickserv identify your_password