Dear All, below is the hostcount for February 1999. The table shows a (tiny!) increase since last month of over 8,000 (or 0,1%) to a total of around 8,200,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The uk domain shows the highest increase for February with approximately 44,500 hosts more than in January. - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The increase this month is so small because the situation in fr has again changed dramatically. We estimate that the several huge zones which were newly included last month were not countable this month, resulting in the loss of around 160,000 hosts. - Other Ways to Obtain the Hostcount - All this data can also be found at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ The translation of the country codes can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes - 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 at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen 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 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 Yener Yigit 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 : Thu Feb 4 1999 This Count : Fri Mar 5 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 257 929 323 606 0 ae 369 18816 566 18250 - 197 al 13 181 20 161 + 90 am 144 968 136 832 + 75 at 32092 235079 65197 169882 + 2453 az 79 404 41 363 - 70 ba 84 845 78 767 + 152 be 14444 259158 31603 227555 + 10865 bf 11 363 77 286 + 79 bg 702 14744 1779 12965 + 938 bh 28 1530 124 1406 + 480 bj 12 92 13 79 + 26 by 142 1260 241 1019 - 10 cf 2 8 0 8 + 2 ch 54953 323952 62777 261175 + 11545 ci 132 708 76 632 + 5 cm 7 167 3 164 - 1 cv 9 17 1 16 0 cy 691 4922 196 4726 - 871 cz 25300 104569 16808 87761 - 278 de 244838 2112930 593516 1519414 + 40387 dj 3 11 2 9 0 dk 70969 373726 63329 310397 + 9155 dz 20 92 11 81 - 3 ee 2711 27178 2018 25160 + 582 eg 914 2886 328 2558 + 28 er 1 0 0 0 - 1 es 12969 318757 17595 301162 - 7275 fi 10646 484332 16378 467954 - 2933 fo 186 900 47 853 + 307 fr 32972 529738 35065 494673 -128827 ga 12 42 25 17 + 7 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 60 889 47 842 + 51 gg 172 246 169 77 + 4 gh 14 348 55 293 + 27 gi 99 921 592 329 + 1 gl 228 2488 442 2046 + 66 gn 2 8 0 8 0 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 6852 59449 5525 53924 + 821 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2240 16194 3382 12812 + 4888 hu 7885 115474 13934 101540 + 2289 ie 7089 68585 7286 61299 + 1959 il 8666 141137 21457 119680 + 2641 im 192 143 48 95 + 5 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 77 891 90 801 - 37 is 1896 26258 1483 24775 - 383 it 52335 491940 65262 426678 + 12796 je 164 179 81 98 + 10 jo 387 1083 409 674 + 189 ke 326 2029 629 1400 + 58 kg 55 1770 136 1634 + 81 kz 401 2966 555 2411 + 270 lb 1264 4802 876 3926 + 50 li 897 2016 831 1185 + 22 lr 5 0 0 0 0 lt 1612 11643 948 10695 + 528 lu 1982 9198 1365 7833 + 82 lv 1258 18874 3425 15449 + 431 ma 359 2585 536 2049 + 62 mc 222 606 176 430 + 5 md 126 670 184 486 + 28 mk 401 1538 189 1349 + 244 ml 17 196 8 188 0 mt 335 2043 423 1620 - 232 ne 14 105 5 100 + 22 ng 172 611 426 185 - 16 nl 63000 686089 71150 614939 - 25326 no 22814 348506 19820 328686 + 9522 om 24 2898 10 2888 + 1 pl 21045 187790 39921 147869 + 312 pt 7602 69650 9837 59813 + 875 qa 28 624 6 618 0 ro 2303 23388 3032 20356 - 6006 ru 18212 235483 54762 180721 + 12954 sa 221 1010 288 722 - 101 se 32469 448036 35871 412165 - 1086 si 3731 25771 2854 22917 - 74 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 7258 30069 6497 23572 + 501 sl 1 0 0 0 0 sm 74 322 12 310 - 15 sn 72 881 203 678 + 15 su 1418 29737 1784 27953 + 537 sy 4 1 0 1 0 td 6 8 4 4 0 tj 138 734 519 215 + 50 tm 1624 3018 1795 1223 + 9 tn 1 61 40 21 + 4 tr 7816 60273 5784 54489 + 7864 ua 2296 32695 11426 21269 + 661 ug 17 129 5 124 + 3 uk 165451 1819214 307118 1512096 + 44573 uz 196 750 346 404 - 15 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 29 36 11 25 + 9 yu 2401 8865 1230 7635 - 58 ============================================================== 100 963780 9823294 1613679 8209615 + 8881