Dear All, below is the hostcount for October 1999. The table shows an increase since last month of over 470,000 (or 4.9%) to a total of more than 10,000,000 (cheer!) hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The -it- domain shows the highest increase for October with approximately 180,000 hosts more than in September. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - We apologise for the delay in publication of the hostcount this month. Delays are becoming increasingly frequent due to the sheer size of the zones meaning that resource requirments are extremely large for some TLDs. And again, the exceptionally large raise this month can only be partially attributed to the lateness of publication, since most of the TLD data was collected at the usual time. Please remember that last month, no data could be published for -uk- or -be- which probably also influences the count for this month positively (though by no means decisively). Finally, it's a little early to start celebrating making 10,000,000 hosts before the millenium, since the count could potentially go down next month :-) - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: 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 Shuki Kenan 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 Armando Domingues ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr Hostcount 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 : Mon Oct 18 1999 This Count : Mon Nov 15 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 341 1107 466 641 + 4 ae 762 23736 444 23292 + 557 al 30 240 15 225 + 5 am 331 1751 430 1321 + 111 at 48088 323144 101579 221565 + 13136 az 136 727 78 649 + 118 ba 121 2354 171 2183 - 105 be 21159 359976 32350 327626 + 31601 bf 20 475 83 392 + 15 bg 830 17427 1837 15590 - 407 bh 36 1676 198 1478 - 60 bj 15 129 16 113 + 24 by 94 1049 184 865 + 35 ch 81829 404983 104734 300249 + 6146 ci 132 401 135 266 - 4 cm 14 246 11 235 + 5 cv 7 47 41 6 0 cy 428 5014 277 4737 + 140 cz 43435 149051 33282 115769 + 3430 de 631915 3409623 1819312 1590311 + 22385 dj 7 45 7 38 0 dk 88535 476807 144751 332056 + 16293 dz 26 157 14 143 + 43 ee 3635 30638 2618 28020 - 11 eg 1127 2710 555 2155 - 57 er 1 4 0 4 + 1 es 18020 568806 29693 539113 + 25085 fi 13841 509649 25726 483923 + 12475 fo 298 866 50 816 - 81 fr 51232 771538 101211 670327 + 23161 ga 14 44 25 19 - 2 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 77 1018 53 965 + 5 gg 260 477 192 285 + 84 gh 20 345 40 305 - 49 gi 171 202 48 154 + 67 gl 346 2865 562 2303 + 14 gn 6 359 135 224 + 218 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 10561 86136 9541 76595 + 4541 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2673 18811 4029 14782 + 474 hu 10848 135893 28180 107713 + 6195 ie 9029 71721 8779 62942 + 994 il 12715 188598 43891 144707 + 3123 im 216 454 148 306 + 99 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 103 1155 136 1019 + 98 is 2661 30822 2492 28330 + 838 it 79688 834363 101255 733108 +179010 je 261 458 134 324 + 90 jo 543 1554 557 997 + 34 ke 463 3066 465 2601 - 667 kg 142 2378 309 2069 + 630 kz 702 6267 1070 5197 + 973 lb 1198 5447 1559 3888 + 679 li 1549 3556 1308 2248 + 329 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 2488 14377 1380 12997 + 293 lu 3137 11870 2154 9716 - 5 lv 1683 22346 4916 17430 + 509 ma 670 3617 1155 2462 + 235 mc 223 637 252 385 + 23 mk 431 1669 274 1395 - 36 ml 21 233 16 217 + 2 mt 486 6311 679 5632 + 304 ng 255 1064 756 308 + 22 nl 103734 1025283 160496 864787 + 48064 no 28612 396706 28236 368470 + 978 om 32 2907 46 2861 - 14 pl 30306 243527 74753 168774 - 1360 pt 9920 80724 13162 67562 + 1203 qa 34 1084 12 1072 + 2 ro 3689 40159 5809 34350 + 2585 ru 27589 271357 60532 210825 - 2349 sa 919 4912 1071 3841 - 32 se 37277 570682 47778 522904 + 3262 si 3243 26413 3507 22906 + 1284 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 10083 37611 10802 26809 + 345 sl 7 76 0 76 0 sm 116 396 33 363 + 8 sn 140 1107 232 875 + 15 su 1452 28936 1963 26973 - 605 sy 7 15 9 6 0 tj 211 1359 846 513 + 114 tm 1414 2580 1658 922 + 78 tn 1 97 63 34 + 1 tr 9524 92385 12779 79606 + 1883 ua 4291 47085 18938 28147 + 1608 ug 41 188 41 147 - 3 uk 326552 2292664 620157 1672507 + 61701 uz 280 766 380 386 + 9 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 37 52 23 29 0 yu 3482 12316 1954 10362 - 62 ============================================================== 96 1753092 13703943 3682045 10021898 +471884