Dear All, below is the hostcount for September 2000. The table shows a *decrease* since last month of over 380,000 (or 3.3%) to a total of around 11,250,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The de domain shows the highest increase for September with approximately 35,000 hosts more than in August. The overall decrease was largely attributable to a loss of around 320,000 hosts from the fr TLD. 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 August data had to be reused for es due to problems at the local collector this month - 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 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 EUN Hostcount Admin es Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS 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 : Fri Sep 15 2000 This Count : Fri Oct 13 2000 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 508 1862 725 1137 + 4 ae 1755 42278 1014 41264 + 1126 al 60 189 23 166 + 7 am 702 3649 1117 2532 + 94 at 114659 621022 176845 444177 + 13999 az 357 1855 305 1550 - 133 ba 256 2869 519 2350 - 109 be 22500 341907 45024 296883 - 4172 bg 1036 17948 2021 15927 - 2703 bh 58 1744 451 1293 + 1 by 183 2555 327 2228 + 40 ch 139075 437553 199131 238422 + 9346 ci 224 723 251 472 + 13 cm 33 315 23 292 + 120 cv 15 115 90 25 + 2 cy 694 7985 788 7197 + 41 cz 72719 214578 62665 151913 + 3457 de 1874240 7384538 5463159 1921379 + 34981 dj 17 56 16 40 0 dk 163782 547032 215013 332019 + 26589 dz 49 525 33 492 - 81 ee 5839 43540 9673 33867 - 545 eg 1660 3248 1049 2199 - 15 er 1 5 0 5 + 1 es 15962 377766 21854 355912 0 fi 18951 576875 48880 527995 - 4886 fr 79647 1186945 132271 1054674 -320407 ga 22 61 30 31 + 2 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 315 1851 493 1358 + 24 gg 781 1835 571 1264 + 12 gh 35 401 54 347 + 15 gi 429 2068 692 1376 + 10 gl 612 2745 289 2456 + 10 gn 7 333 136 197 - 1 gr 15726 107779 15625 92154 + 1867 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 3175 23286 8141 15145 + 692 hu 29304 176664 74121 102543 - 18232 ie 14149 130023 19839 110184 + 1496 il 13601 133761 33901 99860 0 im 423 1896 320 1576 + 10 ir 164 1881 351 1530 + 104 is 4875 54877 17140 37737 + 5317 it 179395 626691 202665 424026 -102268 je 770 1722 417 1305 + 12 ke 797 1391 326 1065 - 3699 kg 330 4186 550 3636 + 108 kz 1405 7417 1350 6067 - 537 lb 884 3235 836 2399 + 292 li 3892 8421 4649 3772 + 85 lr 9 0 0 0 0 lt 5477 18021 2908 15113 + 535 lu 4868 14588 3504 11084 + 3719 lv 3664 24482 5627 18855 + 1250 ma 1026 3495 1795 1700 - 16 mc 310 788 350 438 - 3 mk 591 1859 397 1462 + 19 ml 34 272 30 242 - 39 mt 851 8092 1502 6590 + 33 ng 261 1061 924 137 - 241 nl 320304 1947310 529824 1417486 + 54471 no 38091 500396 37422 462974 - 657 om 64 5802 2919 2883 + 2 pl 69470 395150 101897 293253 + 10289 pt 7170 82036 13240 68796 - 19322 qa 35 165 93 72 + 42 ro 7743 56714 11263 45451 + 8658 ru 10957 65178 19708 45470 - 88806 sa 1434 3995 1372 2623 + 149 se 49830 694024 63408 630616 - 4509 si 3765 26209 4693 21516 + 317 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 18011 46699 16458 30241 - 4180 sl 7 206 0 206 + 3 sm 237 983 148 835 + 136 sn 290 1931 371 1560 + 57 su 1457 24960 1782 23178 - 1073 sy 3 16 8 8 0 tj 420 1820 1156 664 + 36 tm 478 1957 617 1340 - 5 tn 2 82 55 27 + 3 tr 2332 71202 2902 68300 + 14728 ua 12931 78357 45296 33061 + 1585 ug 196 880 140 740 + 3 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 5988 18660 4053 14607 + 368 ============================================================== 88 3833230 19712643 8466678 11245965 -380359