Dear All, below is the hostcount for December 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 100,000 (or 1.3%) to a total of almost 7,900,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The fr domain shows the highest increase for December with approximately 21,300 hosts more than in November. - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - There is again a little bit of disturbance in terms of countries coming in and out. gw was included after zone transfer problems last month were no longer present. It's contribution is shown on subtotal line 2 of the table. ae and sd were excluded due to difficulties with zone transfers at the top level, therefore their contribution last month is subtracted from the total change (on subtotal line 3). Noticeable was a large drop for se. A look at the error file shows this was due to the common 'zone transfer refusal by a major nameserver' problem. The last quarter of 1998 showed an increase of 1.3% on the previous quarter. This is the lowest quarterly increase since the hostcount started. - 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 - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: ad Joan Marc Lauga at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cycz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen es Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Shuki Kenan is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene mk Goran Muratovski no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Armando Domingues ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Ivan Lescak sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr Yener Yigit uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Wed Dec 9 1998 This Count : Tue Jan 5 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 248 880 270 610 - 19 al 10 151 9 142 0 am 145 1169 218 951 + 33 at 30139 242161 69592 172569 + 7766 az 60 472 37 435 + 86 ba 66 777 72 705 + 78 be 12782 233507 24842 208665 + 5005 bf 8 280 8 272 + 74 bg 614 11638 1388 10250 - 962 bh 28 1039 121 918 + 2 bj 14 69 16 53 - 7 by 129 1264 212 1052 + 3 cf 2 6 0 6 0 ch 50210 303974 58565 245409 + 13567 ci 105 672 57 615 - 8 cm 8 166 3 163 + 1 cv 8 17 1 16 0 cy 726 5718 227 5491 + 369 cz 21634 100800 14318 86482 + 8307 de 205039 1970367 520452 1449915 + 20377 dj 3 11 2 9 0 dk 67876 353649 55374 298275 + 4348 dz 19 91 3 88 + 57 ee 2439 26200 2042 24158 + 1680 eg 796 2686 266 2420 - 25 er 1 1 0 1 0 es 12451 321722 15163 306559 + 7829 fi 10083 474735 15167 459568 - 846 fo 172 623 47 576 + 9 fr 30631 573964 62771 511193 + 21359 ga 8 27 19 8 - 2 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 50 769 31 738 + 39 gg 146 236 163 73 + 1 gh 13 331 44 287 + 23 gi 91 630 302 328 + 8 gl 189 2221 325 1896 + 57 gn 2 7 0 7 + 1 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 5721 54255 4351 49904 + 449 gw + 2 21 1 20 + 20 hr 1875 11455 1948 9507 - 2313 hu 7059 107134 11203 95931 + 6101 ie 6677 62362 6503 55859 + 1304 il 7760 139914 25330 114584 + 7062 im 182 141 52 89 + 16 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 65 740 68 672 - 54 is 1671 26022 1228 24794 - 34 it 41111 438810 52178 386632 + 16390 je 132 154 63 91 + 2 jo 349 1031 389 642 - 7 ke 297 1953 621 1332 + 27 kg 45 1646 119 1527 + 6 kz 374 2760 510 2250 + 198 lb 1178 4285 818 3467 + 30 li 813 1951 780 1171 + 33 lr 4 0 0 0 0 lt 1446 10641 839 9802 + 188 lu 1845 8959 1222 7737 + 281 lv 1113 17104 2772 14332 + 645 ly 2 1 0 1 0 ma 320 2527 482 2045 + 19 mc 201 578 159 419 + 14 md 126 817 204 613 + 65 mk 310 1289 159 1130 + 102 ml 16 196 8 188 + 2 mt 310 2207 369 1838 - 16 ne 11 72 3 69 - 24 ng 154 559 369 190 - 7 nl 56116 686044 60275 625769 + 13812 no 21279 338069 19076 318993 - 635 om 24 2898 11 2887 + 3 pl 19114 164832 34278 130554 + 5237 pt 7381 64800 9054 55746 + 1697 qa 27 625 6 619 + 9 ro 1915 26079 2571 23508 + 1151 ru 15673 204622 47944 156678 - 7111 sa 133 688 115 573 + 93 se 31395 413926 34471 379455 - 38439 si 3456 25643 2711 22932 + 210 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 6136 27781 5717 22064 + 126 sl 7 70 0 70 0 sm 41 43 1 42 - 280 sn 58 834 176 658 + 19 su 1310 27714 1712 26002 - 4046 sy 4 1 0 1 0 td 6 8 4 4 0 tj 124 564 433 131 - 78 tm 1643 2958 1787 1171 - 15 tn 1 50 35 15 - 81 tr 7719 54146 5273 48873 + 3271 ua 2048 29880 10105 19775 - 1490 ug 15 126 5 121 + 7 uk 140072 1726224 276909 1449315 + 18848 uz 190 810 356 454 - 15 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 19 34 18 16 + 1 yu 2095 8659 947 7712 + 826 ============================================================== 99 846124 9340767 1468870 7871897 +112809 + 1 2 21 1 20 + 20 - 9378 ============================================================== 100 846126 9340788 1468871 7871917 +103451 Not included due to problems (usually AXFR): ae eh et gm kw so st tg sd