Dear All, below is the hostcount for December 2000. The table shows an increase since November of over 630,000 (or 5.2%) to a total of about 12,700,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The ru domain shows the highest increase for December with approximately 250,000 hosts more than in November. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - the January data had to be reused for uk due to problems with co.uk. since that time. - the November data had to be reused for at, be and lu due to technical problems with the data collection. - dj, dz and ml were removed from the count due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. - 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 ES NIC fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Netvision 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 METU Hostcount Admin 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 Dec 12 2000 This Count : Wed Jan 10 2000 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 529 2388 738 1650 + 15 ae 2286 44539 1577 42962 + 541 al 75 237 28 209 - 4 am 895 3915 1252 2663 + 45 at 124834 676824 193616 483208 0 az 494 1935 393 1542 - 21 ba 283 2909 625 2284 - 126 be 23531 341116 40923 300193 0 bg 1139 21632 3203 18429 - 557 bh 20 109 56 53 + 2 by 221 2421 388 2033 - 194 ch 161560 482181 219671 262510 + 30282 ci 241 904 297 607 + 70 cm 37 336 23 313 + 17 cv 19 128 101 27 + 1 cy 754 8783 785 7998 + 860 cz 82292 236596 77277 159319 - 1972 de 2177659 8454143 6413706 2040437 + 33960 dk 169764 549434 215456 333978 + 7104 ee 6251 46404 5495 40909 + 1802 eg 1635 3320 1080 2240 + 49 er 23 230 2 228 + 2 es 18340 481028 25541 455487 + 99575 fi 19902 580548 51287 529261 - 3828 fr 91434 1287468 165061 1122407 + 4067 ga 25 48 14 34 - 2 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 396 2511 777 1734 + 301 gg 1058 1981 651 1330 - 1 gh 13 25 8 17 - 296 gi 403 1155 109 1046 - 430 gl 650 2788 308 2480 + 2 gn 10 337 137 200 + 5 gr 16997 127770 17162 110608 - 825 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 3686 26571 9969 16602 + 998 hu 29528 153901 49486 104415 - 16573 ie 15132 130469 19924 110545 - 258 il 17992 157109 54172 102937 + 3077 ir 193 2082 392 1690 + 306 is 5532 60851 20950 39901 + 1223 it 384160 1507968 488257 1019711 + 43994 je 1071 1940 554 1386 + 13 ke 1031 5529 752 4777 + 11 kg 434 4759 644 4115 + 166 kz 1675 9019 1636 7383 + 100 lb 1 0 0 0 0 li 4687 9484 5460 4024 + 24 lr 11 0 0 0 0 lt 6284 21447 3643 17804 + 163 lu 4979 15736 3922 11814 0 lv 4336 26384 6459 19925 + 285 ma 1195 3915 2057 1858 + 195 mc 352 906 455 451 + 2 mk 671 2094 506 1588 + 45 mt 917 8214 1617 6597 - 91 ng 270 2052 1362 690 + 3 nl 365096 2341455 717888 1623567 +100655 no 40248 489784 37107 452677 + 2734 om 79 5856 2948 2908 0 pl 69681 496534 156718 339816 + 82949 pt 7707 78103 15956 62147 - 918 qa 35 2370 115 2255 + 38 ro 8261 52486 10963 41523 - 5051 ru 81254 577774 273161 304613 +250250 sa 1633 5542 1797 3745 + 60 se 54462 664121 68423 595698 + 3174 si 3847 27098 5230 21868 + 583 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 22985 56434 18513 37921 + 15 sl 7 210 0 210 0 sm 268 1233 191 1042 + 187 sn 357 2253 417 1836 + 6 su 1487 23822 1912 21910 - 1281 sy 3 18 9 9 0 tj 114 951 678 273 + 7 tm 465 1878 647 1231 - 1 tn 2 83 57 26 + 1 tr 12515 83292 13369 69923 - 6223 ua 16296 95329 59542 35787 + 2452 ug 268 347 161 186 - 57 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 6401 19486 4451 15035 - 453 ============================================================== 84 4560229 23046084 10325270 12720814 +633254 -3 - 575* ======= +632679 * 'dj', 'dz' and 'ml' were included in the count last month but not this month due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. Their total contribution to the number of real hosts was 575.