Dear All, below is the hostcount for May 2003. The table shows an increase since last month of over 460,000 (or 2.4%) to a total of just over 20,200,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The fr domain shows the highest increase for May with approximately 130,000 hosts more than in April. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The February, 2003 data was used for dk and hr due to their having a corrupted count this month. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by running a local count: ad Joan Marc Lauga am Hrant Dadivanyan at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen eg EUN Hostcount Admin es Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene lu Alain Frieden mk Goran Muratovski mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Joao Pagaime ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr METU Hostcount Admin If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue May 27 2003 This Count : Mon Jun 23 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 173 3041 235 2806 3 ae 10727 78724 22929 55795 83 al 194 274 98 176 1 am 1646 3983 1664 2319 217 at 187573 817076 294159 522917 3069 az 1501 2331 1206 1125 -5 ba 1628 9919 3801 6118 7 be 93880 368921 168407 200514 1591 bg 2112 50527 9372 41155 3133 bj 48 600 46 554 5 by 1282 7404 3093 4311 175 ch 201865 925343 375453 549890 796 ci 621 4231 485 3746 -44 cm 83 579 119 460 10 cv 112 364 311 53 0 cy 1436 6159 1537 4622 116 cz 126906 438461 185883 252578 0 de 4002939 14535080 11870711 2664369 28257 dj 883 1957 1398 559 30 dk 71854 1121201 318223 802978 0 dz 151 1172 333 839 87 ee 12360 79559 15877 63682 226 eg 2393 5276 2095 3181 -121 er 62 1245 139 1106 1 es 38146 768213 61578 706635 111769 fi 37073 1292168 77546 1214622 13010 fr 109400 2124820 501615 1623205 132123 ga 74 149 61 88 1 gb 2 3 0 3 -2 ge 1420 6891 3759 3132 0 gg 2047 3676 2079 1597 8 gh 107 435 87 348 -1 gi 176 720 143 577 -11 gl 1415 4178 1254 2924 -14 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 52 402 155 247 0 gq 3 8 5 3 0 gr 54018 306541 130817 175724 -35 gw 2 3 0 3 0 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 75542 409748 146351 263397 2097 ie 23458 198804 50303 148501 9292 il 35752 329228 155542 173686 -293 im 580 1860 777 1083 -1 ir 1060 6178 2150 4028 -11 is 9148 1363593 1271143 92450 -820 it 461521 1367557 574621 792936 2953 je 2143 3407 1702 1705 0 jo 1037 6775 2594 4181 23 ke 1372 3698 998 2700 -312 kg 768 15105 2790 12315 -86 kz 3460 350815 332712 18103 -788 lb 1449 9412 1978 7434 82 li 7251 15760 11819 3941 56 lr 17 18 5 13 0 lt 12061 76019 13674 62345 1051 lu 3742 6859 4168 2691 10 lv 8232 104609 67613 36996 1129 ma 2553 7572 4692 2880 46 mc 678 1365 880 485 1 mk 2525 4573 1225 3348 34 mt 1636 10462 2974 7488 6 ng 388 2174 1130 1044 1 nl 710738 5637949 2288387 3349562 12917 no 115813 566191 139432 426759 15073 pl 150027 1049222 306348 742874 13033 pt 7283 186279 19538 166741 53561 qa 107 616 395 221 18 ro 18083 79146 33219 45927 1487 ru 218544 1324411 907727 416684 10723 sa 3699 16636 3697 12939 -2770 se 85795 1147689 247455 900234 30422 si 11953 55809 16929 38880 1215 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 60173 239726 148892 90834 2096 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 1084 3136 1523 1613 1 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1826 357825 329331 28494 -36 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 69 18 7 11 -1 tj 183 1060 751 309 0 tm 222 784 266 518 2 tn 1199 1302 955 347 6 tr 27412 272659 48980 223679 1978 ua 48320 243446 167795 75651 1291 ug 779 2927 592 2335 9 uk 1858943 6903784 3826500 3077284 15559 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 175 304 171 133 15 yu 15490 36596 18502 18094 464 ============================================================== 91 8970213 45453847 25244500 20209347 466018