Dear All, below is the hostcount for June 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 140,000 (or 2.2%) to a total of almost 6,800,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The de domain shows the highest increase for June with approximately 30,000 hosts more than in May. - Other Ways to Obtain the Hostcount - The hostcount can also be found under ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The graphical version of the hostcount can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/RIPE-Hostcount-{Mo,Qu}.eps The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount.html If you are interested in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services has hosted the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <Gerhard.Winkler@univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.de> ch Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag@eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert@dknet.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez@rediris.es> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@heanet.ie> il Shuki Kenan <shuki@netvision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> li Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <armando@rccn.net> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Wed Jun 3 1998 This Count : Sat Jul 4 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 9 144 6 138 + 4 am 116 963 145 818 + 60 at 21118 170748 35733 135015 + 1579 az 44 405 18 387 + 31 ba 24 463 24 439 - 45 be 10543 201085 18455 182630 + 2708 bg 522 9820 745 9075 + 69 by 84 1117 157 960 + 150 ch 34935 258652 38270 220382 + 7170 cy 568 4955 115 4840 + 105 cz 13549 79315 9202 70113 + 3431 de 126297 1539604 251963 1287641 + 31150 dk 50388 229577 30195 199382 + 3421 dz 4 9 0 9 - 43 ee 1808 21912 1318 20594 + 694 eg 610 3055 192 2863 + 96 es 10365 258659 10300 248359 + 7681 fi 7045 449773 13533 436240 + 3516 fo 119 554 23 531 - 40 fr 23450 468003 32217 435786 + 7173 gb 2 26 0 26 - 11 ge 42 633 37 596 + 11 gr 4692 41262 3292 37970 + 2684 hr 1608 12026 1845 10181 + 2220 hu 5433 97793 8492 89301 + 21453 ie 5438 50803 4552 46251 + 1227 il 6243 128393 20745 107648 + 2761 is 1207 22577 803 21774 + 851 it 35771 380226 47872 332354 + 9863 li 562 1786 597 1189 + 2 lt 857 7844 442 7402 + 1734 lu 1216 7843 1049 6794 + 149 lv 723 11514 1892 9622 + 434 ma 185 1921 319 1602 + 187 md 55 479 92 387 + 61 mk 217 881 100 781 + 73 mt 232 1663 237 1426 - 69 nl 37227 549847 61851 487996 + 827 no 19108 314312 14450 299862 - 5873 pl 14125 129921 20294 109627 + 1794 pt 5995 54708 6895 47813 + 2938 ro 1338 20480 1968 18512 + 643 ru 12872 162193 20629 141564 + 6348 se 28347 405171 25338 379833 + 2084 si 2665 22718 2444 20274 - 890 sk 4631 22310 3968 18342 + 207 sm 42 246 4 242 + 6 su 1036 45996 1773 44223 + 930 tn 14 201 98 103 + 7 tr 6018 41751 4424 37327 + 2339 ua 1263 27141 7750 19391 + 1673 uk 104949 1457959 225221 1232738 + 17000 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 1461 7058 531 6527 + 631 ============================================================== 607174 7728500 932615 6795885 +143204