Reverse Lookup (`/realname`)

Because players can rename themselves, staff need a way to find who’s behind a nickname. /realname <nick> (alias /whoisnick) does the reverse of a nick: given the visible text, it returns the player.

/realname King

→ King = Notch

How it works

• The lookup is case-insensitive and matches the plain (tag-stripped) nick.
• Online players are checked first via an in-memory index.
• On a miss, dNicks falls back to a best-effort scan of stored player files, so it can often resolve a nick of an offline player too.

Permission

dnicks.realname — on by default. Set it to op if you want the lookup to be staff-only:

/lp group default permission set dnicks.realname false

Uniqueness

If nick.unique is true in config.yml, two players can’t share the same plain nick, so a lookup is always unambiguous.