Dear All, below is the hostcount for April 2003. The table shows an increase since last month of almost 100,000 (or 0,5%) to a total of almost 19,745,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The "no" domain shows the highest increase for April with approximately 156,000 hosts more than in March. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The Februari, 2003 data for dk was reused due to a corrupted count for 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 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 Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric 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, Paul Vlaar RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Apr 29 2003 This Count : Tue May 27 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 172 3039 236 2803 -1 ae 10398 84534 28822 55712 3 al 184 266 91 175 0 am 1631 3769 1667 2102 -265 at 183610 807668 287820 519848 -302 az 1447 2318 1188 1130 -1 ba 1430 9645 3534 6111 -2 be 94704 363316 164393 198923 -150847 bg 2068 46974 8952 38022 63 bj 47 589 40 549 -10 by 1214 7079 2943 4136 -19 ch 202284 922912 373818 549094 59371 ci 612 4269 479 3790 1 cm 83 566 116 450 0 cv 76 310 257 53 1 cy 1392 5956 1450 4506 6 cz 126906 438461 185883 252578 6539 de 3972978 14406695 11770583 2636112 15165 dj 860 1608 1079 529 2 dk 71854 1121201 318223 802978 0 dz 152 1068 316 752 3 ee 12096 85412 21956 63456 -126 eg 2353 5426 2124 3302 36 er 63 1242 137 1105 0 es 37252 652656 57790 594866 138 fi 36641 1276529 74917 1201612 -69 fr 108930 1998059 506977 1491082 6287 ga 72 144 57 87 1 gb 2 5 0 5 0 ge 1393 6775 3643 3132 32 gg 2050 3613 2024 1589 1 gh 103 433 84 349 0 gi 175 731 143 588 0 gl 1406 4181 1243 2938 -2 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 59 401 154 247 0 gq 5 7 4 3 0 gr 52911 304867 129108 175759 -128 gw 2 3 0 3 0 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 73281 412359 151059 261300 62567 ie 23274 185449 46240 139209 -261 il 35456 328746 154767 173979 3764 im 574 1850 766 1084 1 ir 1004 6042 2003 4039 68 is 8992 1265380 1172110 93270 2099 it 452356 1357217 567234 789983 9393 je 2150 3423 1718 1705 2 jo 974 6634 2476 4158 4 ke 2367 4363 1351 3012 5 kg 802 15111 2710 12401 62 kz 3452 245169 226278 18891 606 lb 1444 9315 1963 7352 3 li 7056 15451 11566 3885 -103 lr 17 18 5 13 1 lt 11874 74703 13409 61294 8047 lu 3772 6770 4089 2681 -10441 lv 8163 99627 63760 35867 256 ma 2479 7240 4406 2834 5 mc 668 1341 857 484 1 mk 2455 4506 1192 3314 11 mt 1611 10381 2899 7482 15 ng 384 2177 1134 1043 1 nl 697563 5130680 1794035 3336645 223 no 112684 547666 135980 411686 155944 pl 149433 1031153 301312 729841 383 pt 17430 145965 32785 113180 -69953 qa 96 544 341 203 0 ro 17278 75141 30701 44440 2051 ru 216397 1391868 985907 405961 -5381 sa 3606 19389 3680 15709 2 se 84559 1091900 222088 869812 0 si 11689 54042 16377 37665 14 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 59501 235587 146849 88738 -46 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 1089 3121 1509 1612 -2 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1673 356978 328448 28530 29 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 68 19 7 12 2 tj 183 1060 751 309 0 tm 206 738 222 516 0 tn 1199 1291 950 341 0 tr 25700 267802 46101 221701 806 ua 47070 235424 161064 74360 122 ug 766 2925 599 2326 102 uk 1834191 6874145 3812420 3061725 3575 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 151 266 148 118 0 yu 15184 35406 17776 17630 69 ============================================================== 91 8881495 44198216 24454887 19743329 99923