Folks, Please find below the RIPE DNS hostcount for January 1994. - Again a big increase of over 33,000 (or 6%) to 587,118. Again this indicates a doubling of the number of hosts in about one year (Dec 1992 = 284,000, Jan 1993 = 303,000). - We promised last month that we would produce a worldwide hostcount, but due to time constraints we have not been able to analyse the data. You might have seen the new ZONE survey of Mark Lottor of SRI, and we have made a comparison between the two sets of data. This comparison is available as ftp.ripe.net:ripe/hostcount/History/RIPE-SRI - All output is again available at ftp.ripe.net:ripe/hostcount. The large output files have been gzipped this time, to save some disk space and network bandwidth. History again appended below. Cheers, -Marten RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Dec 31 1993 This Count : Mon Jan 31 1994 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 0 0 0 0 0 at 297 12871 284 12587 - 2546 be 78 7679 135 7544 + 470 bg 4 29 7 22 + 6 by 0 0 0 0 0 ch 224 39187 196 38991 + 6634 cs 86 2579 18 2561 - 332 cy 6 37 4 33 + 1 cz 119 4999 67 4932 + 465 de 1719 124612 4578 120034 + 8415 dk 139 8846 143 8703 + 344 dz 0 0 0 0 0 ee 19 402 2 400 - 37 eg 4 50 0 50 + 40 es 316 15264 109 15155 + 1006 fi 323 36686 981 35705 + 2620 fo 1 0 0 0 0 fr 731 57300 625 56675 + 2910 gb 1 17 0 0 - 17 ge 1 0 0 0 0 gr 108 2206 271 1935 + 204 hr 57 752 5 747 + 409 hu 43 3343 19 3324 + 274 ie 53 2385 55 2330 + 14 is 48 1992 9 1983 + 222 it 500 18380 353 18027 + 1735 il 131 6872 54 6818 + 528 li 2 17 0 17 0 lt 1 0 0 0 0 lu 20 310 2 308 + 14 lv 4 80 1 79 + 20 ma 1 0 0 0 0 mk 1 0 0 0 0 mt 1 0 0 0 0 nl 480 45407 490 44917 + 1166 no 493 32299 268 32031 + 1358 pl 243 5155 184 4971 + 97 pt 117 3455 73 3382 - 150 ro 10 63 1 62 - 5 se 568 42763 512 42251 + 1330 si 14 660 5 655 + 43 sk 40 629 13 616 + 265 su 161 1624 92 1532 + 101 tn 2 14 2 12 + 12 tr 25 471 6 465 - 58 ua 39 203 17 186 + 3 uk 906 129070 11994 117076 + 6200 va 0 0 0 0 0 yu 1 2 0 2 0 ============================================================ 8137 608710 21575 587118 +33761 This is an overview of the History of the RIPE hostcounts. It only contains the totals. The totals for 1990-1991 should be considered rather unstable and unreliable because the program used then was not really tuned, plus the count was not done as regular as it is now. Count : total hostcount for all European top level domains Delta : delta since previous count Delta % : delta as percentage of previous count Q Delta : delta over the past quarter Q Delta%: delta over last quarter as percentage of end of last quarter count For the Q Deltas I have not calculated those back before 1992, because the figures for 1990-1991 are not too reliable. *) Dec 1991 hostcount estimated at 135,000. Count Delta Delta % Q Delta Q Delta % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 1990 31724 Nov 1990 33665 + 1941 + 6.1% Dec 1990 29230 - 4435 - 13.2% Jan 1991 43832 + 14602 + 50.0% Feb 1991 - Mar 1991 44506 + 674 + 1.5% Apr 1991 46948 + 2442 + 5.5% May 1991 - Jun 1991 63267 + 16319 + 34.8% Jul 1991 - Aug 1991 73069 + 9802 + 15.5% Sep 1991 92834 + 19765 + 27.0% Oct 1991 104824 + 11990 + 12.9% Nov 1991 129652 + 24828 + 23.7% Dec 1991 - Jan 1992 141308 + 11656 + 9.0% Feb 1992 161434 + 20126 + 14.2% Mar 1992 167939 + 6505 + 4.0% + 32939 *) + 24.4% *) Apr 1992 170050 + 2111 + 1.3% May 1992 182528 + 12478 + 7.3% Jun 1992 196758 + 14230 + 7.8% + 28819 + 17.2% Jul 1992 213017 + 16259 + 8.3% Aug 1992 221951 + 8934 + 4.2% Sep 1992 232522 + 10571 + 4.8% + 35764 + 18.2% Oct 1992 254585 + 22063 + 9.5% Nov 1992 271795 + 17210 + 6.8% Dec 1992 284374 + 12579 + 4.6% + 51852 + 22.3% Jan 1993 303828 + 19454 + 6.8% Feb 1993 322902 + 19074 + 6.3% Mar 1993 355140 + 32238 + 10.0% + 70766 + 24.9% Apr 1993 366164 + 11024 + 3.1% May 1993 385522 + 19358 + 5.3% Jun 1993 404930 + 19408 + 5.0% + 49790 + 14.0% Jul 1993 426827 + 21897 + 5.4% Aug 1993 451116 + 24289 + 5.7% Sep 1993 469356 + 18240 + 4.0% + 64424 + 15.9% Oct 1993 500018 + 30662 + 6.5% Nov 1993 533701 + 33683 + 6.7% Dec 1993 553357 + 19656 + 3.7% + 84001 + 17.9% Jan 1994 587118 + 33761 + 6.1%