Dear All, below is the hostcount for June 1999. I once again apologise for the lateness of this report. The 'host' tool needed to be adjusted to handle the large size which is now being reached by some zones, and one of the TLDs had to be rerun as a result. The table shows a *decrease* since last month of over 250,000 (or 2.9%) to a total of around 8,500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The fr domain shows the highest increase for June with approximately 44,000 hosts more than in May. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The large drop in the number of zones and hosts counted this month is explained by the following: - the collecting machine for de (and the IP address) was changed, resulting in blocked zone transfers for many zones which had previously been accessible. - a major provider for fi accidentally tightened zone transfer restrictions on their main nameservers, resulting in rejection of requests from the RIPE NCC. - large zones in several other TLDs (e.g. it, uk) became restricted as regards zone transfers. Zone transfer restrictions now have an obvious major (detrimental) effect on the hostcount. The RIPE NCC will undertake action over the next weeks to attempt to rectify this situation. The numbers in the hostcount will only ever be useable as a mimimum estimate, but we wouldn't like to see the accuracy continue to decline so severely. - 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 am Edgar D Danielyan at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen eg Network Operator 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 mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Armando Domingues ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr Hostcount Maintainer 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 Jun 9 1999 This Count : Tue Jul 13 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 309 1051 434 617 0 ae 452 18131 478 17653 - 15 al 18 225 15 210 + 9 am 245 1519 278 1241 + 72 at 40197 262694 76346 186348 + 4175 az 115 442 66 376 - 30 ba 109 1572 161 1411 + 488 be 17966 343931 31971 311960 + 2136 bf 12 379 77 302 + 1 bg 807 16502 1332 15170 + 257 bh 27 1556 140 1416 + 10 bj 14 131 13 118 + 35 by 185 1435 300 1135 - 56 cf 2 7 0 7 0 ch 66631 355805 87099 268706 + 15658 ci 100 299 62 237 + 17 cm 7 241 3 238 0 cv 11 64 46 18 - 5 cy 791 5536 351 5185 + 151 cz 33312 125881 23695 102186 - 275 de 419820 2606584 1132060 1474524 -135471 dj 6 44 5 39 0 dk 79628 397278 88124 309154 - 8866 dz 24 194 15 179 + 35 ee 3158 29528 2374 27154 + 67 eg 1062 3017 446 2571 - 33 er 1 2 0 2 + 1 es 15046 384881 22946 361935 + 4827 fi 11247 434488 23054 411434 - 81079 fo 243 903 46 857 + 263 fr 42258 689639 82684 606955 + 44197 ga 17 53 29 24 + 4 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 70 989 44 945 + 179 gg 204 263 168 95 + 10 gh 8 8 2 6 - 263 gi 155 678 322 356 + 2 gl 268 2738 525 2213 + 43 gn 2 10 0 10 + 7 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 8734 70607 7408 63199 + 1688 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2706 17926 4406 13520 + 664 hu 9504 122710 17246 105464 + 17569 ie 8016 68875 8067 60808 - 360 il 10360 159513 28337 131176 + 1921 im 174 211 90 121 + 6 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 89 1178 132 1046 + 146 is 2279 27550 1882 25668 - 293 it 34459 234490 36931 197559 - 93156 je 201 202 87 115 - 10 jo 468 1400 457 943 + 3 ke 349 3172 692 2480 + 2059 kg 79 1224 148 1076 - 429 kz 486 3299 631 2668 + 277 lb 1117 4004 1254 2750 - 157 li 1170 2778 1034 1744 - 85 lr 6 0 0 0 0 lt 1965 13009 1129 11880 + 162 lu 2562 10149 1513 8636 + 222 lv 1354 20099 4119 15980 + 231 ma 463 2992 743 2249 + 72 mc 286 763 235 528 + 11 mk 523 1810 249 1561 + 149 ml 15 158 9 149 + 74 mt 393 5974 542 5432 + 4 ne 16 134 6 128 + 29 ng 220 744 513 231 + 14 nl 76351 834842 109986 724856 - 13803 no 26978 370493 23895 346598 + 5843 om 27 2877 23 2854 - 12 pl 25004 192840 50789 142051 - 20386 pt 8811 77828 11343 66485 + 822 qa 34 1072 8 1064 + 7 ro 3027 33418 4889 28529 - 1575 ru 23483 253883 52305 201578 + 10215 sa 594 4223 777 3446 + 433 se 34650 537856 39529 498327 + 11798 si 4365 26234 3389 22845 + 339 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 8477 34140 8048 26092 - 176 sl 1 0 0 0 - 74 sm 95 357 22 335 + 6 sn 97 959 223 736 + 144 su 1657 28054 1844 26210 - 1553 sy 4 1 0 1 0 tj 170 1037 707 330 + 82 tm 1463 2907 1659 1248 + 64 tn 1 72 45 27 0 tr 9094 99276 13923 85353 + 19294 ua 3185 39386 14949 24437 + 917 ug 21 142 8 134 - 4 uk 213490 1872631 376396 1496235 - 45697 uz 233 705 346 359 - 6 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 34 49 21 28 + 1 yu 2711 9773 1383 8390 - 624 ============================================================== 98 1266591 10888791 2410085 8478706 -256583