Dear All, below is the hostcount for October 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of approximately 190,000 (or 2,8 %) to a total of almost 7,650,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The 'it' domain shows the highest increase for October with approximately 43500 hosts more than in September. - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - As is sometimes the case, the high increase for 'it' can be put down to a *decrease* the previous month. This highlights the fact that the overall progression is more useful than the snapshot of a single month. Somewhat surprising is the large reduction for 'de'. The 'de' hostcounter tells me that a major reason for this was the restructuring of the DNS of a company previously having around 30000 registered hosts. - Other Ways to Obtain the Hostcount - The hostcount can also be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount.html If you are interested in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services has hosted the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <Gerhard.Winkler@univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.de> ch Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> cycz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag@eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Morten Christensen <morten@dk-hostmaster.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez@rediris.es> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@heanet.ie> il Shuki Kenan <shuki@netvision.net.il> is Marius Olafsson <marius@isgate.is> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> li Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> lt Daiva Tamulioniene <daiva@sc-uni.ktu.lt> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <armando@rccn.net> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Oct 6 1998 This Count : Thu Nov 5 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 10 146 8 138 - 1 am 139 1091 212 879 - 10 at 26878 203905 44322 159583 + 3588 az 53 424 32 392 + 6 ba 27 159 56 103 - 434 be 12567 225275 22891 202384 + 16470 bg 612 12245 1471 10774 + 296 by 114 1270 176 1094 + 107 ch 44197 281937 50843 231094 + 1166 cy 666 5243 175 5068 + 3 cz 18640 90849 12674 78175 + 5368 de 173168 1751290 346595 1404695 - 17994 dk 61179 335612 46290 289322 + 2392 dz 5 18 1 17 0 ee 2167 24196 1662 22534 + 1236 eg 749 2697 248 2449 - 393 es 11755 300945 12906 288039 + 26448 fi 9463 480967 15634 465333 + 8737 fo 157 592 34 558 + 2 fr 28066 515371 37438 477933 + 18025 gb 2 27 0 27 + 1 ge 56 784 50 734 + 29 gr 8464 49083 3400 45683 + 1920 hr 1755 13923 2270 11653 + 3563 hu 6320 97455 9757 87698 - 1771 ie 6320 58876 6767 52109 + 2373 il 7357 133206 25083 108123 + 3391 is 1529 25068 1008 24060 + 1061 it 42980 448180 54976 393204 + 43498 li 708 1764 673 1091 + 52 lt 1176 10278 678 9600 + 584 lu 1623 8178 1250 6928 + 118 lv 965 14883 2515 12368 + 746 ma 256 2033 402 1631 - 271 md 84 791 148 643 + 120 mk 279 1075 130 945 - 9 mt 279 2161 345 1816 + 58 nl 48899 649720 55173 594547 + 5415 no 22236 333512 17413 316099 + 593 pl 17917 160604 34162 126442 + 7744 pt 6986 61202 8374 52828 + 2083 ro 1683 22876 2135 20741 - 4 ru 14571 191573 37671 153902 + 4702 se 29534 432149 27775 404374 + 2079 si 3005 24832 2610 22222 + 263 sk 5657 26674 4926 21748 + 1478 sm 50 251 4 247 + 6 su 1299 31557 1804 29753 + 3202 tn 1 42 31 11 - 64 tr 7054 46317 5150 41167 + 14850 ua 1795 30316 9189 21127 + 107 uk 132237 1712315 275864 1436451 + 29275 va 2 8 0 8 - 6 yu 1802 7727 727 7000 + 30 ============================================================== 765493 8833672 1186128 7647544 +192228