Most Popular IRC Servers

Here is the list of the Most Popular IRC Servers in use today (also known as IRCd daemons). An IRC Server is a network application that allows you to connect to others using the Internet Relay Chat protocol. There are many different server applications used to provide IRC service to clients, both cross platform and single platform for Windows and Linux based operating systems. The most popular and standard port for the IRC protocol is 6667.

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UnrealIRCd	One of the most popular and most feature rich of IRC servers available today.
Undernet IRCd	The Undernet IRC server.
IRCxpro	IRC server for Windows. Free trial version, FAQ, manual, reviews, example sessions. Also offers messenger client
Bahamut	Bahamut is an IRC server designed for DALnet, one of the most popular IRC networks in the world.
UltimateIRCd	Server based on the dalnet DreamForge IRCd.
Faerion	An open source multi platform IRC server developed with respect to internationalization and portability
ConferenceRoom	The most popular commercial IRC server for the Windows operating system.
FWS IRCd	Another popular Windows IRC server with a good bit of options and VBScript support, built-in web server, IRC Services, DNS server, several IRC tools and even some IRC clients.
IgnitionServer	A free,open source IRC server for Windows that includes services (NickServ, ChanServ, etc.) plus remote administration
IRCD-Hybrid	One of the original IRC servers used on the popular Efnet IRC network
IRCD-Ratbox	This is now the primary server used in EFnet and includes access to the full source code.
Darkfire	Used on the network of the same name, the Darkfire IRC server is based on Dreamforge with many changes.
InspireIRCd	Built for Linux and BSD this IRC server is C++ based and is very modular and even includes a module API for adding in your own features.
Perl IRC	If you are a fan of Perl, than you might be interested in this IRC server completely written in Perl.

You might also want to have a look at our report on the Most Popular IRC Clients and Most Popular IRC Networks.

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