Which plugin is the one where you spawn in the "Safe Zone" and then you can venture out into the "Wilderness" And it has the little tilde in front of it? (~Wilderness)
No, it's factions. http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/factions However I can understand why you'd suggest Towny as that also uses ~ before area names.
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