Dear all, I wish you all a good and successful 1998! Here is the last hostcount from 1997 (December 1997). The table shows an increase since last month of over 14,000 (or 2,6%) to a total of almost 5,800,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. DE shows the highest increase for December with more than 43,000 hosts more than in November. The hostcount can also be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount.html If you are interested in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services is hosting the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler@cc.univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster@nic.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj@ics.forth.gr> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag@eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert@dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez@rediris.es> fi Petri Ojala <ojala@eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg@sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Nov 28 1997 This Count : Tue Dec 30 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 10 123 6 117 - 3 am 59 516 74 442 + 25 at 13216 133646 25173 108473 + 3623 az 14 357 10 347 + 13 ba 16 379 6 373 + 255 be 7572 116390 9582 106808 + 1136 bg 374 7299 469 6830 + 272 by 53 767 59 708 + 82 ch 23390 212543 23368 189175 + 5362 cy 402 3113 99 3014 - 154 cz 7548 61181 4312 56869 + 254 de 81425 1316984 184810 1132174 +43156 dk 36717 191094 21726 169368 + 4607 dz 3 49 0 49 + 12 ee 1322 16615 784 15831 + 462 eg 417 1922 117 1805 - 7 es 7571 201915 5512 196403 + 2207 fi 7076 499186 12375 486811 +15313 fo 82 291 7 284 + 1 fr 14509 381031 26000 355031 +10684 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 29 437 24 413 + 12 gr 2153 30190 2059 28131 + 394 hr 1101 9493 1255 8238 + 241 hu 3427 73301 5414 67887 + 7302 ie 3910 42554 2690 39864 + 905 il 4448 95947 9186 86761 + 4391 is 851 19054 534 18520 + 1281 it 23673 284729 30433 254296 -26756 li 298 1348 373 975 + 209 lt 561 4255 210 4045 + 291 lu 931 5558 815 4743 - 135 lv 456 8142 1054 7088 + 608 ma 105 1544 139 1405 + 394 md 28 289 44 245 + 1 mk 46 542 43 499 + 47 mt 117 930 109 821 - 80 nl 26126 426227 34999 391228 + 9121 no 13998 304387 12005 292382 + 1271 pl 8221 98716 10262 88454 + 2494 pt 4761 45723 3276 42447 + 568 ro 963 14483 914 13569 + 346 ru 8079 122625 14035 108590 + 8803 se 22903 367046 18437 348609 + 3654 si 1844 21982 2487 19495 + 757 sk 2710 17288 2768 14520 + 588 sm 24 223 9 214 0 su 928 45439 1410 44029 +22423 tn 3 98 47 51 - 1 tr 4405 38790 3763 35027 + 3297 ua 771 18738 4742 13996 + 786 uk 75841 1176820 159368 1017452 +14700 va 2 10 0 10 0 yu 848 5144 247 4897 + 1204 ============================================================ 416339 6427493 637640 5789853 +146416