User blog comment:Sam 3010/Wikia Communication: Forums / Chat/@comment-569195-20110224004113/@comment-3334534-20110224035120

nick is protected via the server's reg service, that require the user to authenticate (enter a password) upon connecting to IRC with a given user name. If the user does not provide nickserv service with a correct password within alloted time the server will change that users nick forcefully.