Dear All, Below is the hostcount for October 2003. The table shows an increase since last month of over 460,000 (or 2,3%) to a total of almost 20,300,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The nl domain shows the highest actual increase for October with approximately 90,000 hosts more than in September. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - Data for dk shows a large jump of 340,000 real hosts, however this is actually between February and October, not September and October. - The May, 2003 data was used for ru due to problems with the remote collection. - A local collection was performed for pl due to the normal remote collection being unreachable. - 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 DK Hostmaster es Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis ie Mike Norris 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 pt Joao Pagaime ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr METU Hostcount Admin If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Bruce Campbell RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Oct 20 2003 This Count : Thu Nov 20 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 182 4378 254 4124 1314 ae 11276 79442 23397 56045 67 al 220 310 109 201 22 am 827 2338 1381 957 420 at 42023 105363 58511 46852 -209396 az 1350 1798 1234 564 2 ba 1744 11491 4813 6678 434 be 97306 403584 181432 222152 5473 bg 2281 60092 14077 46015 6538 bj 54 896 57 839 9 by 1500 8205 3792 4413 0 ch 192356 893885 356486 537399 2839 ci 651 4315 524 3791 14 cm 103 599 141 458 -13 cv 118 371 317 54 1 cy 1664 7424 1758 5666 110 cz 130487 487204 200763 286441 5309 de 3915701 14312945 11863641 2449304 26182 dj 1017 1768 1144 624 9 dk 349505 2115783 973299 1142484 339506 dz 163 1250 396 854 10 ee 13190 95457 31403 64054 222 eg 2513 5555 2235 3320 97 er 68 1184 143 1041 1 es 53537 824594 74661 749933 9672 fi 56499 1329905 91619 1238286 2896 fr 110444 2169448 502491 1666957 20357 ga 82 166 75 91 2 gb 2 3 0 3 0 ge 1606 9017 4129 4888 25 gg 2075 3845 2217 1628 9 gh 125 486 103 383 4 gi 177 721 143 578 0 gl 1486 4282 1335 2947 5 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 58 528 155 373 2 gq 3 8 5 3 0 gr 57393 328589 136551 192038 3025 gw 1 2 0 2 0 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 83172 515687 166851 348836 11166 ie 24316 201011 47509 153502 3210 il 37901 553519 145447 408072 14001 im 585 1628 785 843 8 ir 1511 7480 3101 4379 229 is 9582 168284 66865 101419 2790 it 483282 1244138 638757 605381 2692 je 2169 3487 1764 1723 5 jo 1126 5735 2651 3084 32 ke 1 4 0 4 0 kg 822 15933 3734 12199 -252 kz 3762 1147475 1128628 18847 134 lb 1464 9252 1986 7266 103 li 5605 12041 8648 3393 -111 lr 17 18 5 13 0 lt 7012 23318 5377 17941 -34807 lu 4071 8082 4682 3400 49 lv 8710 116653 77128 39525 893 ma 2607 8890 5376 3514 61 mc 718 1429 923 506 8 mk 2710 4845 1342 3503 29 mt 1678 10713 3091 7622 25 ng 414 2226 1157 1069 12 nl 801802 6239102 3151929 3087173 89592 no 124482 715142 153002 562140 -1037 pl 150166 1129036 354585 774451 16371 pt 18012 271043 82451 188592 76149 qa 107 616 395 221 0 ro 19156 83998 35905 48093 129 ru 218544 1324411 907727 416684 0 sa 4011 20096 4035 16061 -101 se 86364 1203408 281097 922311 6146 si 13079 62864 20639 42225 1500 sk 62879 254756 154413 100343 4202 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 999 3055 1432 1623 25 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 2745 360084 330820 29264 1033 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 74 22 10 12 0 tj 183 1060 751 309 0 tm 316 873 336 537 0 tn 37 471 216 255 7 tr 30980 283069 54235 228834 1299 ua 53978 284185 196980 87205 6335 ug 877 3044 662 2382 -5 uk 1989502 7336161 4113690 3222471 45591 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 179 313 175 138 1 yu 16554 40549 20880 19669 81 ============================================================== 90 9337606 47015544 26745557 20269987 462762