Dear All, below is the hostcount for January 2000. The table shows an increase since last month of over 540,000 (or 5.3%) to a total of around 10,820,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The -it- domain shows the highest increase for January with approximately 220,000 hosts more than in December. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/stats/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - Once again, our apologies for the unavoidably late result of this hostcount, caused by the increasing resource needs as large TLD's expand. As usual, major swings in several TLD's can be largely attributed to the effects of AXFR blocking, for example... - an ISP that runs secondary for many zones blocks or allows zone transfers to the counting machines's IP on its nameserver. - large organisations with many hosts block or allow zone transfers to the counting machine's IP on all their nameservers. - 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 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 IL NOC 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 Hostcounter, METU 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 : Tue Jan 18 2000 This Count : Mon Feb 21 2000 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 376 1233 544 689 0 ae 1021 25733 1368 24365 + 513 al 40 213 15 198 - 17 am 396 3079 716 2363 + 50 at 62539 400579 115206 285373 + 22741 az 166 636 65 571 - 32 ba 135 2381 191 2190 - 42 be 21675 368199 30148 338051 - 1306 bg 933 19338 2139 17199 + 367 bh 41 1753 249 1504 + 9 bj 15 131 9 122 0 by 109 2442 218 2224 + 1341 ch 94094 389750 122165 267585 - 2227 ci 147 514 133 381 + 105 cm 14 151 13 138 - 95 cv 7 72 55 17 0 cy 582 6891 624 6267 + 42 cz 44012 162857 38780 124077 + 1824 de 871906 4417358 2777015 1640343 + 5276 dj 10 49 10 39 0 dk 112506 469717 124283 345434 + 7195 dz 29 252 16 236 + 36 ee 4097 34498 3837 30661 + 558 eg 1281 3010 695 2315 - 40 er 1 3 0 3 - 1 es 17916 516059 28208 487851 + 18264 fi 15363 528013 38465 489548 + 27788 fo 318 801 69 732 + 10 fr 60741 1342321 78294 1264027 + 30956 ga 17 42 20 22 0 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 91 1030 61 969 + 71 gg 364 1546 273 1273 + 22 gh 25 519 51 468 + 115 gi 218 2138 624 1514 + 1065 gl 407 3008 587 2421 + 14 gn 8 393 166 227 0 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 12072 91208 11566 79642 + 4554 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 3038 20854 4724 16130 + 1595 hu 12450 150046 35544 114502 - 5140 ie 9856 115551 15517 100034 + 36121 il 15669 206914 51876 155038 + 5548 im 269 1487 194 1293 + 6 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 110 1438 248 1190 + 23 is 3228 37181 3354 33827 + 3955 it 103907 644399 122430 521969 +220441 je 362 1521 207 1314 + 16 jo 563 1551 601 950 - 28 ke 515 3939 537 3402 + 37 kg 179 3836 343 3493 - 42 kz 925 6750 985 5765 + 50 lb 1221 5270 1639 3631 - 258 li 2209 5260 2026 3234 - 135 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 3185 16155 1584 14571 + 378 lu 3071 13512 2198 11314 + 1700 lv 1978 24341 5664 18677 - 200 ma 2 578 1 577 - 1457 mc 239 612 261 351 + 15 mk 530 1841 333 1508 + 21 ml 31 208 24 184 - 40 mt 571 6850 901 5949 - 56 ng 258 1169 769 400 - 197 nl 161498 1232931 211971 1020960 + 61877 no 32304 471853 29343 442510 + 3549 om 34 2947 74 2873 + 7 pl 35868 269442 87660 181782 + 10565 pt 5906 92374 11328 81046 + 3285 qa 30 1079 16 1063 - 6 ro 4471 41377 5879 35498 - 796 ru 30812 277635 71085 206550 +142565 sa 1177 5758 1320 4438 + 278 se 38969 574450 50369 524081 + 1193 si 3337 27206 3768 23438 - 161 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 11589 39774 11094 28680 + 497 sl 7 78 0 78 + 1 sm 135 558 54 504 + 25 sn 170 1647 255 1392 + 448 su 1385 27510 1858 25652 - 1793 sy 7 15 9 6 0 tj 214 1149 747 402 - 109 tm 1394 2506 1636 870 + 18 tn 1 65 45 20 - 13 tr 10638 93491 14180 79311 + 433 ua 5551 50148 22418 27730 - 1243 ug 43 229 40 189 + 9 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 - 61105 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 40 56 31 25 - 5 yu 4133 13502 2423 11079 + 535 ============================================================== 94 2316609 15800026 4981500 10818526 +541563