Dear All, below is the hostcount for May 2000. The table shows an increase since last month of over 210,000 (or 1.9%) to a total of almost 11,400,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The ru domain shows the highest increase for May with approximately 200,000 hosts more than in April. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - the January data had to be resused for uk due to problems for the last four months with co.uk. - the April data had to be reused for ch due to hardware problems at the remote collector. - iq and lu had to be removed from the count this month, due to all top level servers denying zone transfers to the collecting machine. - 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 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 IL 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 tr Hostcount Team 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 May 15 2000 This Count : Fri Jun 16 2000 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 461 1836 683 1153 + 4 ae 1496 30230 1541 28689 + 15605 al 51 243 20 223 + 59 am 461 3137 870 2267 0 at 85277 450533 136174 314359 + 5069 az 237 790 131 659 + 3 ba 191 2570 276 2294 + 67 be 19897 329097 30933 298164 + 6259 bg 978 18073 1713 16360 - 245 bh 54 1833 307 1526 + 3 bj 16 124 7 117 - 13 by 123 2540 316 2224 + 5 ch 108027 385886 146032 239854 0 ci 183 646 234 412 + 4 cm 25 287 22 265 + 11 cv 13 95 78 17 0 cy 634 7413 431 6982 + 287 cz 60312 201673 59412 142261 + 9862 de 1311385 5859845 4074073 1785772 + 56446 dj 16 55 15 40 0 dk 138452 519356 166784 352572 - 2117 dz 39 311 18 293 + 17 ee 4817 35613 7131 28482 - 3911 eg 1327 3087 848 2239 + 26 er 1 4 0 4 + 1 es 18815 495844 28578 467266 - 20050 fi 17147 563962 41128 522834 + 14194 fo 393 1106 82 1024 + 8 fr 69273 1434831 95731 1339100 + 40811 ga 19 49 22 27 + 9 gb 2 24 0 24 - 3 ge 130 1371 93 1278 + 90 gg 488 1408 348 1060 + 3 gh 23 83 25 58 - 265 gi 228 1962 664 1298 - 11 gl 452 2639 226 2413 + 71 gn 4 355 134 221 + 30 gr 13410 115032 12852 102180 - 3080 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2580 19146 5807 13339 - 4351 hu 27757 179794 59096 120698 + 4990 ie 12301 125886 17966 107920 + 1596 il 17150 154147 25250 128897 + 4778 im 301 1265 187 1078 + 9 ir 134 1651 296 1355 + 79 is 3932 37265 3820 33445 - 312 it 111282 528436 111681 416755 -283787 je 518 1344 230 1114 + 10 ke 672 4157 619 3538 + 2 kg 236 4049 427 3622 - 7 kz 1122 7486 1147 6339 + 180 lb 1138 4670 1341 3329 0 li 3172 7376 3815 3561 + 307 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 4380 17875 2309 15566 + 861 lv 2597 26147 6670 19477 + 21 ma 834 2983 1318 1665 + 86 mc 284 705 312 393 + 14 mk 511 1652 301 1351 + 15 ml 16 79 0 79 - 55 mt 680 7418 1156 6262 + 47 ng 260 1011 848 163 + 5 nl 261271 1660885 429565 1231320 + 86693 no 35374 494528 38894 455634 + 4435 om 47 5769 2890 2879 + 3 pl 47603 366113 113328 252785 + 28363 pt 6718 101698 14372 87326 + 1275 qa 32 1356 41 1315 + 243 ro 5933 50709 8673 42036 - 337 ru 52953 385132 116641 268491 +203926 sa 1431 6259 1806 4453 - 163 se 44764 678934 64805 614129 + 19881 si 3941 25649 3966 21683 + 2307 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 16340 47656 15066 32590 + 984 sl 7 202 0 202 + 2 sm 183 615 115 500 + 8 sn 210 1733 295 1438 - 11 su 1421 25490 1750 23740 + 3595 sy 3 16 8 8 + 1 tj 284 1554 1046 508 + 16 tm 533 1426 666 760 - 74 tn 1 73 50 23 + 2 tr 2187 74675 4040 70635 + 28295 ua 9144 67618 35787 31831 + 282 ug 98 824 74 750 + 1 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 5315 17654 3325 14329 + 665 ============================================================== 89 3021357 18128081 6734784 11393297 +224129 -2 -10717* ======= +213412 * The TLDs 'iq' and 'lu' were included in the count last month but not this month due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. Their total contribution to the number of real hosts was 10717.