Dear All, below is the hostcount for September 2003. The table shows a decrease since last month of over 420,000 (or 2,1%) to a total of around 19,800,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The uk domain shows the highest increase for September with approximately 30,000 hosts more than in August. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - The February, 2003 data was used for dk due to their having a corrupted count this month. - The May, 2003 data was used for ru due to problems with the remote collection. - 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 pl Mirek Luc 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, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Sep 15 2003 This Count : Mon Oct 20 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 178 3052 242 2810 -3 ae 11222 79356 23378 55978 42 al 210 284 105 179 2 am 375 1184 647 537 -199 at 99088 400483 144235 256248 -25125 az 1346 1778 1216 562 2 ba 1678 10570 4326 6244 102 be 90867 387088 170409 216679 1067 bg 2229 49173 9696 39477 44 bj 54 884 54 830 271 by 1430 7907 3494 4413 -2 ch 197009 893426 358866 534560 3011 ci 634 4269 492 3777 0 cm 97 614 143 471 6 cv 116 368 315 53 0 cy 1624 7312 1756 5556 65 cz 132848 494268 213136 281132 4240 de 3915385 14264522 11841400 2423122 -54157 dj 995 1992 1377 615 10 dk 71854 1121201 318223 802978 0 dz 160 1224 380 844 5 ee 12917 92827 28995 63832 723 eg 2456 5435 2212 3223 8 er 65 1182 142 1040 0 es 39239 813616 73355 740261 2071 fi 53009 1322243 86853 1235390 6680 fr 110085 2157309 510709 1646600 14230 ga 84 164 75 89 -1 gb 2 3 0 3 0 ge 1564 8900 4037 4863 769 gg 2072 3821 2202 1619 4 gh 121 479 100 379 7 gi 177 721 143 578 0 gl 1474 4255 1313 2942 -1 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 58 528 157 371 0 gq 3 8 5 3 0 gr 56416 323062 134049 189013 7347 gw 1 2 0 2 0 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 80876 499045 161375 337670 3420 ie 24118 197241 46949 150292 1293 il 37565 537949 143878 394071 12269 im 578 1608 773 835 -254 ir 1400 6978 2828 4150 34 is 9442 165397 66768 98629 -1828 it 477064 1225212 622523 602689 -540 je 2155 3480 1762 1718 5 jo 1110 5664 2612 3052 -6 ke 1 4 0 4 0 kg 812 15923 3472 12451 56 kz 3654 968247 949534 18713 -86 lb 1463 9149 1986 7163 5 li 5572 12071 8567 3504 -247 lr 17 18 5 13 0 lt 13111 64285 11537 52748 648 lu 3963 7872 4521 3351 -3 lv 8514 114420 75788 38632 835 ma 2610 8654 5201 3453 19 mc 708 1411 913 498 2 mk 2654 4796 1322 3474 23 mt 1666 10651 3054 7597 33 ng 409 2220 1163 1057 1 nl 787011 5888291 2890710 2997581 -366463 no 122023 712661 149484 563177 1813 pl 149231 1102547 344467 758080 3791 pt 17852 143353 30910 112443 -78595 qa 107 616 395 221 0 ro 18695 82095 34131 47964 3035 ru 218544 1324411 907727 416684 0 sa 3937 20072 3910 16162 3083 se 86085 1182285 266120 916165 -1648 si 12585 60285 19560 40725 981 sk 62207 249465 153324 96141 3140 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 944 2928 1330 1598 -42 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 2610 358610 330379 28231 -58 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 74 22 10 12 0 tj 183 1060 751 309 0 tm 294 852 315 537 0 tn 37 458 210 248 1 tr 30693 280886 53351 227535 -129 ua 53081 269907 189037 80870 589 ug 855 3039 652 2387 4 uk 1934449 7161909 3985029 3176880 30259 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 177 308 171 137 3 yu 16262 39636 20048 19588 149 ============================================================== 90 9016098 45272608 25465383 19807225 -423190