Terms of Use

These are the terms for using NickTop. The short version: the tool is free, the names are yours to use anywhere, and the only real limits are on automated bulk extraction and on using the site to harm someone. There is no account to agree to anything with, so using the site is the agreement.

Last updated: 12 August 2026. The date moves only when the terms actually change.

What you may do with the names

Anything. A nickname you generate or copy from NickTop is free to use on a game account, a social profile, a stream overlay, a clan tag, a logo, a video title or a client project. You do not need our permission, you do not owe us attribution, and there is no commercial restriction — we do not distinguish between a player naming a squad and a studio naming a character.

This is not generosity. It is the only honest position: the decorated characters are ordinary Unicode letters and symbols that nobody owns, and a short name is not the kind of thing a website gets to license out.

What you may not do with the site

The limits are about the site as a service, not about the names:

• No bulk or automated extraction. Do not scrape the pages, script the generator, or run the API outside the site’s own front end. The tool enforces this in code rather than only in prose: each request needs a short-lived token, and a single address can only be issued ten tokens per fifteen minutes. Hitting that ceiling is not a bug report, it is the limit working.
• No republishing the lists as a dataset. Copy any name you like. Do not lift a whole ranked list, its ordering or its copy counts and present them as your own data — the ordering is the part we actually made.
• No using the site against a person. Do not submit or use names to impersonate someone, harass them, or pass yourself off as them.
• Nothing illegal where you are. Local law applies to you whatever this page says.

Nicknames you submit

If you add a nickname through the community box, you are adding it to a public list. Anyone visiting the page can read it, copy it and use it, exactly as with every other name on the site — that is the entire point of the list, and there is no private mode in which a submission stays yours.

Submit only names you are happy to see published. Do not submit anyone’s real name, contact details or anything that identifies a private person; do not submit anything sexual, hateful or designed to impersonate. We remove entries that break that, and we remove them on request even when they do not.

Who owns a nickname

Practically speaking, nobody. A nickname is a short string of characters, and short strings generally fall below the threshold at which copyright attaches — the same reason you cannot own a two-word phrase. So we do not claim ownership of what you submit, we do not ask you to sign a licence, and we cannot stop anyone else copying it either.

Two honest exceptions worth knowing. A name can still collide with someone’s trademark if you use it commercially in their field, and that risk sits with you, not with us. And a name can be someone’s established online identity even without any legal right attached — which is why the removal route exists and why we use it.

Not affiliated with the platforms we name

NickTop is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to any game, app or social network mentioned on this site. Platform and game names are trademarks of their owners and appear here only to say which platform a nickname is meant for. The characters we generate are Unicode letters, not fonts.

What we do not promise

NickTop is provided as it is, free, with no warranty. In particular we do not promise that:

1. A name will be accepted. Every platform sets its own rules on length and on which characters it allows, and those rules change with updates. A name that worked last month can be refused today.
2. A name is unused. We have no way to see who has already taken a handle anywhere. Only the platform’s own sign-up field can tell you that.
3. A name will display the same everywhere. Each device draws only the characters its installed fonts cover, so a decorated name can render perfectly on a phone and show empty boxes on an old desktop.
4. The site will always be up. It is a small operation and it can go down.

To the fullest extent the law where you live allows, we are not liable for loss that follows from using the site — including a rejected name, a rename cooldown, a suspended account or a moderation decision taken against you by a platform. Those decisions belong to the platform and we have no part in them.

Removal and moderation

We remove an entry when it names or targets a real person, when it is abusive or sexual, or when it impersonates someone — and we do it whether or not there is a legal argument attached. We also reserve the ordinary right to remove anything else that does not belong on the site, and to decline a submission without explaining the reasoning at length.

To ask for a removal, or to raise a copyright or trademark claim, write to mail@nicktop.com. The contact page lists the subject line to use and what to include so it can be handled in one round.

If something goes wrong between us

Start with an email. Almost everything people write to us about — a wrong entry, a name they want gone, a claim over a work — is settled in a message or two, and we answer within two business days.

We deliberately do not name a court or a national law in these terms. Naming one would tell you where to sue and nothing else useful, and the site holds nothing of yours to fight over: no account, no payment, no personal data beyond what the privacy policy describes. Your own consumer-protection rights apply to you wherever you are, and nothing here is intended to reduce them.

Changes to these terms

If the site gains something that changes the deal — a paid feature, an account system, an advertising partner — these terms are rewritten and the date at the top moves with them. We do not refresh the date to look current, and there is no notification list, because there is no mailing list to put you on.

Everything on this page applies to every part of the site, starting from NickTop itself.