Dear All, below is the hostcount for May 1999. My apologies for the extreme lateness of this report. The table shows an increase since last month of over 400,000 (or 4.8%) to a total of almost 8,750,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The uk domain shows the highest increase for May with approximately 280,000 hosts more than in April. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The large drop in hosts for uk last month was found to be due to a major provider refusing zone transfers for their domains. They have kindly allowed us to scan their domains this month, leading to the unusually large increase in the overall numbers and especially those for uk this month. Operational problems with ch meant that last month's data had to be used again this month. md and td had to be omitted from the count this month due to zone transfer blocking by their nameservers, I will attempt to contact the operators to rectify this. - 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 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 : Thu May 6 1999 This Count : Wed Jun 9 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 295 1025 408 617 + 6 ae 432 18130 462 17668 + 55 al 18 216 15 201 + 7 am 217 1424 255 1169 - 15 at 37902 255050 72877 182173 - 9548 az 101 462 56 406 + 9 ba 102 1023 100 923 + 108 be 17247 341099 31275 309824 + 6660 bf 12 377 76 301 + 114 bg 780 16234 1321 14913 + 904 bh 27 1539 133 1406 - 2 bj 11 95 12 83 + 10 by 196 1490 299 1191 + 229 cf 2 7 0 7 0 ch 59821 331413 78365 253048 0 ci 69 281 61 220 - 472 cm 7 238 0 238 + 1 cv 11 55 32 23 + 6 cy 772 5372 338 5034 + 13 cz 31854 124754 22293 102461 + 2207 de 368563 2535039 925044 1609995 + 4544 dj 5 43 4 39 0 dk 76227 403375 85355 318020 + 5805 dz 25 162 18 144 + 30 ee 3064 29362 2275 27087 + 469 eg 1046 3031 427 2604 - 26 er 1 1 0 1 0 es 14528 378966 21858 357108 + 31453 fi 11965 511036 18523 492513 + 38583 fo 230 646 52 594 - 2 fr 40374 606464 43706 562758 - 17759 ga 13 41 21 20 - 1 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 64 807 41 766 - 30 gg 206 257 172 85 - 9 gh 13 302 33 269 - 24 gi 144 949 595 354 - 134 gl 258 2327 157 2170 + 6 gn 1 3 0 3 - 7 gq 6 12 7 5 0 gr 8023 68572 7061 61511 + 2269 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2585 17116 4260 12856 - 447 hu 8901 103730 15835 87895 - 9702 ie 7807 69060 7892 61168 - 462 il 10046 157537 28282 129255 + 5040 im 170 201 86 115 + 5 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 82 990 90 900 + 137 is 2190 27714 1753 25961 + 830 it 33255 326633 35918 290715 + 23547 je 207 223 98 125 + 7 jo 455 1382 442 940 + 26 ke 201 487 66 421 - 1468 kg 70 1668 163 1505 + 172 kz 435 2982 591 2391 - 231 lb 1077 3863 956 2907 + 190 li 1099 2844 1015 1829 + 31 lr 5 0 0 0 0 lt 1903 12769 1051 11718 + 304 lu 2436 9868 1454 8414 + 66 lv 1322 19832 4083 15749 + 298 ma 435 2877 700 2177 + 47 mc 276 748 231 517 + 23 mk 489 1646 234 1412 + 57 ml 15 76 1 75 - 111 mt 384 5952 524 5428 + 32 ne 11 101 2 99 - 4 ng 209 717 500 217 + 11 nl 69862 826003 87344 738659 + 11881 no 25745 362998 22243 340755 + 1895 om 26 2889 23 2866 - 23 pl 24873 238409 75972 162437 + 8812 pt 8502 76748 11085 65663 + 1384 qa 31 1065 8 1057 + 201 ro 2929 34895 4791 30104 + 6162 ru 21513 237975 46612 191363 + 4677 sa 497 3768 755 3013 + 57 se 34558 524955 38426 486529 - 2823 si 4183 25713 3207 22506 + 11 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 8505 33883 7615 26268 + 226 sl 7 74 0 74 0 sm 89 350 21 329 + 2 sn 96 811 219 592 - 108 su 1441 29697 1934 27763 - 258 sy 4 1 0 1 + 1 tj 151 878 630 248 + 6 tm 1472 2832 1648 1184 + 30 tn 1 70 43 27 + 1 tr 9045 76458 10399 66059 + 5292 ua 2987 37294 13774 23520 + 1591 ug 15 148 10 138 - 2 uk 203784 1941546 399614 1541932 +278634 uz 223 708 343 365 + 33 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 34 48 21 27 - 2 yu 2589 10398 1384 9014 + 792 ============================================================== 98 1173867 10883365 2148076 8735289 +402329 ============================================================== - 1431* ======= +400898 * 2 TLD's were in the count last month but not this month: md and td. Their total contribution to the count last month was 1431 real hosts, thus the actual change since last month is +400,898 real hosts.