IRC Services

  # IRC Services

IRC Services provide channel and nickname management: registration, authentication, access lists, and protection from takeovers.

## Popular IRC Services

- [Anope](wiki:/IRC_Services/Anope) - Modular, widely used, supports multiple IRCd
- [Atheme](wiki:/IRC_Services/Atheme) - High performance, feature-rich
- [Solanum](wiki:/IRC_Services/Solanum) - Modern, used with Charybdis
- **atheme-services** - Atheme's services suite

## Common Features

- Nickname registration (NickServ)
- Channel registration (ChanServ)
- Memos (MemoServ)
- Operator tools (OperServ)
- Statistics (StatServ)

## See Also

- [IRC Daemons](wiki:/IRC_Daemons) - Server software services run alongside
- [IRC Tools](wiki:/IRC_Tools) - Additional utilities