Dear all, Here is the last hostcount for 1996. Sorry for the delay. I just came back from long and great holidays :-) I wish you all a Happy New Year and hope you had nice vacations. The table below shows an increase since last month of more than 224,000 (or 6.5%) to a total of over 3,670,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. This comes to a total increase of 11.5% during the last three months. FI shows the highest increase for December with 117,805 hosts more than in November. Remember that FI lost hosts continuously over the last few months. In November we saw a decrease of 112,855 hosts. Right after FI is NL with more than 30,000 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 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 Herman Moons <Herman.Moons@CS.kuleuven.ac.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 Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek@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 Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@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 : Sat Nov 30 1996 This Count : Tue Dec 31 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 + 1 am 13 182 6 176 - 21 at 4098 97525 8714 88811 + 3284 az 5 31 1 30 - 18 ba 8 36 0 36 + 6 be 3693 67785 2721 65064 + 2075 bg 138 3464 146 3318 + 301 by 16 265 9 256 + 15 ch 7284 140647 7722 132925 + 6271 cy 166 1476 20 1456 + 306 cz 1794 42359 1513 40846 + 1411 de 26271 735280 43416 691864 + 3744 dk 5167 111212 4480 106732 + 4830 dz 2 29 1 28 + 28 ee 478 8245 265 7980 + 2368 eg 113 2097 121 1976 + 116 es 3445 115348 2121 113227 + 4661 fi 3783 320003 5862 314141 +117805 fo 24 96 0 96 0 fr 6099 246243 9369 236874 +13866 gb 2 39 0 39 - 1 ge 13 213 1 212 + 26 gr 783 17557 819 16738 + 5043 hr 472 5382 749 4633 + 858 hu 962 31365 1525 29840 - 646 ie 1456 27854 959 26895 + 1315 il 2096 54063 4825 49238 + 1173 is 318 11657 115 11542 + 620 it 8097 161785 13912 147873 + 6147 li 98 293 83 210 + 15 lt 220 1846 116 1730 + 33 lu 336 3708 190 3518 + 230 lv 173 6003 223 5780 + 357 ma 32 532 64 468 + 5 md 12 110 14 96 + 15 mk 21 199 6 193 - 40 mt 75 586 93 493 + 23 nl 10252 280222 9711 270511 +30604 no 5979 156362 6232 150130 + 2484 pl 2194 55538 2686 52852 + 3252 pt 944 24324 842 23482 + 1558 ro 410 8032 217 7815 + 2554 ru 2219 44862 3517 41345 + 2040 se 11490 250827 12995 237832 + 2465 si 706 14970 1163 13807 -11319 sk 506 8437 499 7938 + 741 sm 12 790 363 427 + 35 su 555 17469 723 16746 - 734 tn 3 45 4 41 0 tr 1007 18746 1239 17507 + 4140 ua 330 8174 1597 6577 + 121 uk 36875 799949 80655 719294 + 9457 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 257 2648 113 2535 + 717 ============================================================ 151509 3906994 232737 3674257 +224337