Dear All, below is the hostcount for October 2000. The table shows a *decrease* since last month of over 160,000 (or %1.5) to a total of around 11,080,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The ru domain shows the highest increase for October with approximately 210,000 hosts more than in September. 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 September data had to be reused for il, it and nl due to various collection problems. - 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 Morten Christensen eg EUN Hostcount Admin es ES NIC 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, but please try the FAQ first... http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/faq.html Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Oct 13 2000 This Count : Sat Nov 18 2000 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 495 1781 701 1080 - 57 ae 2045 44720 2063 42657 + 1393 al 66 197 25 172 + 6 am 762 3512 884 2628 + 96 at 120007 641635 186355 455280 + 11103 az 402 1927 366 1561 + 11 ba 277 2946 569 2377 + 27 be 23581 346326 46536 299790 + 2907 bg 1109 21266 2303 18963 + 3036 bh 55 515 359 156 - 1137 by 207 2638 380 2258 + 30 ch 148996 444583 206935 237648 - 774 ci 227 784 271 513 + 41 cm 38 318 24 294 + 2 cv 17 121 96 25 0 cy 713 7877 779 7098 - 99 cz 77139 218136 68482 149654 - 2259 de 1977558 7694624 5771761 1922863 + 1484 dj 17 57 16 41 + 1 dk 163159 569977 226427 343550 + 11531 dz 55 182 26 156 - 336 ee 6344 44099 9495 34604 + 737 eg 1638 3221 1079 2142 - 57 er 1 5 0 5 0 es 18875 358042 25012 333030 - 22882 fi 19135 577829 49677 528152 + 157 fr 83213 1246665 152194 1094471 + 39797 ga 23 64 32 32 + 1 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 332 2028 609 1419 + 61 gg 916 1945 658 1287 + 23 gh 14 55 9 46 - 301 gi 448 2214 700 1514 + 138 gl 632 2781 310 2471 + 15 gn 7 333 136 197 0 gr 11413 82819 11222 71597 - 20557 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 3315 24087 8646 15441 + 296 hu 20195 135448 61519 73929 - 28614 ie 14688 130753 19539 111214 + 1030 il 13601 133761 33901 99860 0 im 459 1932 341 1591 + 15 ir 170 1647 301 1346 - 184 is 5095 54237 19081 35156 - 2581 it 179395 626691 202665 424026 0 je 922 1799 473 1326 + 21 ke 913 5328 702 4626 + 3561 kg 369 4172 581 3591 - 45 kz 1519 8485 1464 7021 + 954 lb 963 3925 915 3010 + 611 li 4213 8891 5005 3886 + 114 lr 10 0 0 0 0 lt 5736 20042 3211 16831 + 1718 lu 4979 15736 3922 11814 + 730 lv 3961 25833 6014 19819 + 964 ma 1061 3605 1880 1725 + 25 mc 320 810 363 447 + 9 mk 631 2042 421 1621 + 159 ml 35 326 33 293 + 51 mt 871 8230 1560 6670 + 80 ng 255 1635 1203 432 + 295 nl 320304 1947310 529824 1417486 0 no 39897 503670 40389 463281 + 307 om 71 5845 2935 2910 + 27 pl 72521 402925 106228 296697 + 3444 pt 7229 73531 12609 60922 - 7874 qa 24 139 81 58 - 14 ro 8125 56565 11284 45281 - 170 ru 62584 441299 184531 256768 +211298 sa 1564 4159 1460 2699 + 76 se 33224 284960 37292 247668 -382948 si 3714 26318 4868 21450 - 66 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 21012 55236 17569 37667 + 7426 sl 7 210 0 210 + 4 sm 247 1014 166 848 + 13 sn 324 1958 379 1579 + 19 su 1320 20067 1451 18616 - 4562 sy 3 18 9 9 + 1 tj 397 1733 1089 644 - 20 tm 467 1963 614 1349 + 9 tn 2 78 55 23 - 4 tr 9329 81025 10702 70323 + 2023 ua 14076 81377 47335 34042 + 981 ug 221 876 131 745 + 5 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 6103 18695 4214 14481 - 126 ============================================================== 88 4005208 20059660 8980499 11079161 -166804