Node IDs

History of OC sites 2005-2016

Opencaching Node ID

Node IDs are numbers used internally to uniquely identify each Opencaching node (website).

The purpose of these is to potentially allow information exchange between Opencaching nodes (like caches, users, logs, etc.). Another use is testing for developers in a virtual environment, without affecting the production website(s).

Node ID assignments

Each new website (node) must choose a unique, unassigned, NODE_ID.

Traditionally, NODE_IDs have been assigned by OCDE (Germany) management team.

http://www.opencaching.de/articles.php?page=contact

ID	COUNTRY	WEBSITE	PREFIX	STATUS	COMMENTS	CODE	OKAPI
1	Germany	https://www.opencaching.de https://www.opencaching.it http://www.opencachingspain.es https://www.opencaching.fr	OC	ACTIVE	Covers: Germany, Austria, Swiss, Italy, Spain, France; same content on multiple domains. http://www.opencachingspain.es is expired (may 2019)	OCDE stable	yes .de only
2	Poland	https://opencaching.pl	OP	ACTIVE		OCPL	yes
3	Czech Republic	https://(www.)opencaching.cz	OZ	CLOSED	Domain expired (2024 or earlier) very old OCDE code, forked before OCPL	OCDE old	no
4	Local development only
5	OCDE test site	http://test.opencaching.de	OC	ACTIVE		OCDE next	yes
6	United Kingdom	https://opencache.uk	OK	ACTIVE	OCDE code lists it as node_id=7	OCPL	yes
7	Sweden, Norway	http://www.opencaching.se	OS	REDIRECT to OC.de	shutdown 2014 OCDE code lists it as node_id=6	OCSE	no
8	Norway	http://www.opencaching.no	ON	CLOSED	was merged to Sweden before start
9	Latvia	http://www.opencaching.lv	OV	DOWN	was never started
10	North America	http://(www.)opencaching.us	OU	ACTIVE	Covers: U.S.A. Canada Mexico (merged since 2011)	OCPL since 2019	yes
11	Japan	http://www.opencachng.jp	OJ	CLOSED	shutdown in 2011 (some content visible via the Wayback Machine)	OCPL old	no
12	Russia	http://www.opencaching.ru	OR	under construction	did not start	OCDE old
13	GARMIN	http://www.opencaching.com	OX	CLOSED	Service closed by Garmin sometime in August 2015	proprietaryby Garmin
14	BeNeLux	https://www.opencaching.nl http://opencaching.lu	OB	ACTIVE	Covers: Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg. Main address is https://www.opencaching.nl, the others redirect here.	OCPL	yes
15	??	??
16	Romania	https://www.opencaching.ro	OR	ACTIVE		OCPL	yes

Other Opencaching domains

These URLs do not (directly) show Opencaching node contents.

COUNTRY	WEBSITE	COMMENTS
Austria Swiss Liechtenstein	http://(www.)opencaching.at http://(www.)opencaching.ch http://(www.)opencaching.li	Redirects to this webshop https://geocaching.shop/
Belgium	http://www.opencaching.be	Domain expired (2025 or earlier)
Denmark	http://(www.)opencaching.dk	Domain expired (2025 or earlier)
Czech Republic	http://www.opencaching.cz	Domain expired (2024 or earlier)
Spain	http://www.opencachingspain.es	Domain expired (since may 2019)
Canada	http://(www.)opencaching.ca	redirect to www.opencaching.us
Mexico	http://(www.)opencaching.mx	Domain expired (2024 or earlier)
Luxembourgh	http://www.opencaching.lu	redirect to www.opencaching.nl
EU	https://wiki.opencaching.eu https://opencaching.eu	this site
	http://www.opencaching.net http://www.opencaching.org	a new geocaching service which never started (2005, prior to Opencaching.de), yet the domains are retained by the owner.

Sources

This information was compiled from the following sources:

• Opencaching-PL project – website application on which several OC nodes are running
• Opencaching-DE / oc-server3 project – website application on which OCDE (Germany) and several other OC nodes are running
• OKAPI project – plugin to allow easy access to public Opencaching data
• Information published on each active Opencaching node
• Some information on the .lv .se .no sites
• Compiled from recent information at http://blog.opencaching.ro/2016/03/11/opencaching-node_ids/