Dear all, Sorry for the delay. Everything that can go wrong went wrong this time. But finally: Here is the hostcount for January 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 170,000 (or 2,9%) to a total of almost 6,000,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The UK shows the highest increase for January with more than 40,000 hosts more than in December. 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 is hosting the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler@cc.univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster@nic.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj@ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag@eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert@dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez@rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala@eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg@sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> 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 Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Dec 30 1997 This Count : Tue Feb 3 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 11 128 4 124 + 7 am 61 562 82 480 + 38 at 13816 138177 27659 110518 + 2045 az 17 436 12 424 + 77 ba 15 365 4 361 - 12 be 8045 121609 9726 111883 + 5075 bg 451 7471 471 7000 + 170 by 59 749 80 669 - 39 ch 24775 217095 24912 192183 + 3008 cy 435 4276 95 4181 + 1167 cz 8203 64936 5135 59801 + 2932 de 88397 1332875 192807 1140068 + 7894 dk 37935 194599 22068 172531 + 3163 dz 2 45 0 45 - 4 ee 1393 17866 985 16881 + 1050 eg 44 365 3 362 - 1443 es 7970 207713 6028 201685 + 5282 fi 7599 513217 12006 501211 +14400 fo 89 303 7 296 + 12 fr 15519 411486 26043 385443 +30412 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 27 421 20 401 - 12 gr 2246 28658 2259 26399 - 1732 hr 1152 9423 1259 8164 - 74 hu 3796 77876 6580 71296 + 3409 ie 4218 43700 2814 40886 + 1022 il 4598 102635 9393 93242 + 6481 is 918 19817 577 19240 + 720 it 23351 281396 30683 250713 - 3583 li 327 1265 397 868 - 107 lt 609 4425 254 4171 + 126 lu 1016 5826 918 4908 + 165 lv 419 7597 1127 6470 - 618 ma 106 1454 131 1323 - 82 md 30 303 51 252 + 7 mk 29 244 12 232 - 267 mt 152 1145 127 1018 + 197 nl 27767 439679 38383 401296 +10068 no 14821 307686 12571 295115 + 2733 pl 9117 104160 11337 92823 + 4369 pt 5043 46033 3408 42625 + 178 ro 1017 15091 1148 13943 + 374 ru 6921 123954 13969 109985 +18888 se 23790 380006 19363 360643 +12034 si 1999 21846 2446 19400 - 95 sk 3046 18314 3068 15246 + 726 sm 24 223 9 214 0 su 946 44473 1537 42936 - 1093 tn 8 167 74 93 + 42 tr 4412 37281 3878 33403 - 1624 ua 848 20533 5116 15417 + 1421 uk 82447 1251018 192811 1058207 +40755 va 2 11 0 11 + 1 yu 1004 5681 316 5365 + 468 ============================================================ 441044 6636654 694163 5942491 +170131