Dear All, below is the hostcount for April 2000. The table shows an increase since last month of around 270,000 (or 2.5%) to a total of over 11,175,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The 'it' domain shows the highest increase for April with approximately 320,000 hosts more than in March. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The January data was again used for uk, due to problems with co.uk since then. - 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 Network Operator es Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il IL NOC Team 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 TR Hostcount Team 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 Apr 14 2000 This Count : Mon May 15 2000 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 429 1795 646 1149 + 451 ae 231 13204 120 13084 - 15406 al 47 182 18 164 - 35 am 437 3131 864 2267 - 180 at 79328 439287 129997 309290 + 20304 az 213 765 109 656 + 51 ba 158 2467 240 2227 + 6 be 19390 321815 29910 291905 - 27451 bg 965 18337 1732 16605 - 555 bh 53 1817 294 1523 0 bj 18 139 9 130 + 14 by 105 2496 277 2219 - 12 ch 108027 385886 146032 239854 + 3529 ci 182 639 231 408 - 1 cm 20 272 18 254 + 6 cv 12 86 69 17 - 1 cy 675 7397 702 6695 + 42 cz 57323 182341 49942 132399 + 2876 de 1210555 5523218 3793892 1729326 + 56235 dj 15 54 14 40 0 dk 130813 513486 158797 354689 + 1747 dz 41 310 34 276 - 2 ee 4859 38070 5677 32393 + 2239 eg 1278 3012 799 2213 - 206 er 1 3 0 3 - 4 es 18523 515297 27981 487316 + 8902 fi 16677 545870 37230 508640 - 4067 fo 379 1096 80 1016 + 10 fr 63795 1382760 84471 1298289 + 13682 ga 15 40 22 18 + 13 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 111 1280 92 1188 + 107 gg 445 1352 295 1057 - 205 gh 29 369 46 323 - 131 gi 223 1971 662 1309 - 200 gl 427 2543 201 2342 - 83 gn 3 325 134 191 - 35 gr 12917 118595 13335 105260 + 17811 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 4091 23453 5763 17690 + 7363 hu 25007 169489 53781 115708 + 745 ie 11610 123533 17209 106324 + 610 il 15895 146597 22478 124119 - 8604 im 287 1245 176 1069 - 214 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 123 1551 275 1276 - 152 is 3791 37523 3766 33757 - 1981 it 197878 890006 189464 700542 +317147 je 421 1297 193 1104 - 198 ke 649 4132 596 3536 + 131 kg 213 4045 416 3629 - 197 kz 1047 7312 1153 6159 0 lb 1177 4693 1364 3329 - 359 li 2719 6640 3386 3254 - 131 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 3949 16609 1904 14705 0 lu 3642 13204 2487 10717 - 338 lv 2363 25721 6265 19456 + 430 ma 776 2786 1207 1579 - 88 mc 264 669 290 379 + 21 mk 485 1630 294 1336 - 714 ml 17 138 4 134 - 75 mt 635 7413 1198 6215 - 10 ng 264 992 834 158 - 250 nl 245905 1544738 400111 1144627 + 12596 no 31463 481987 30788 451199 + 4400 om 41 5760 2884 2876 + 1 pl 45059 337661 113239 224422 + 24218 pt 6368 99552 13501 86051 + 892 qa 32 1098 26 1072 + 16 ro 5532 50191 7818 42373 + 2132 ru 10434 83430 18865 64565 -124340 sa 1496 6441 1825 4616 - 90 se 42296 651359 57111 594248 + 3032 si 3697 23048 3672 19376 - 5144 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 14599 45700 14094 31606 + 164 sl 7 200 0 200 + 121 sm 171 605 113 492 + 8 sn 212 1771 322 1449 + 49 su 1296 21667 1522 20145 - 2920 sy 3 15 8 7 + 4 tj 277 1509 1017 492 - 74 tm 548 1618 784 834 + 1 tn 1 69 48 21 0 tr 1185 43885 1545 42340 - 40674 ua 8012 64506 32957 31549 + 2140 ug 89 812 63 749 + 510 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 4956 16699 3035 13664 - 139 ============================================================== 91 2908554 17509761 6329876 11179885 +269490