Dear all, Here is the hostcount for October 1996. The table shows an increase since last month of almost 70,000 (or 2.1%) to a total of almost 3,360,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. Italy shows the highest increase for October with more than 20,000 hosts more than in September. The numbers for the UK dropped siginificantly. We don't know yet why. Please note that there was a mistake in the hostcount for September: The CHANGED column for GR and TR showed wrong numbers. This also effected the total delta. Here are the correct figures: CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ .. gr 432 10610 556 10054 - 220 tr 429 10613 590 10023 + 1091 ... ============================================================ 112312 3510565 220465 3290100 +179871 I am sorry for this mistake. The latest 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/ I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <winkler@cc.univie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons@CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster@nic.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj@ics.forth.gr> 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> fi Petri Ojala <ojala@eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg@sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Sep 30 1996 This Count : Thu Oct 31 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 81 0 81 + 2 am 8 199 6 193 - 8 at 3364 92139 11203 80936 + 1284 az 4 19 0 19 + 2 be 3249 62320 2381 59939 +13403 bg 121 3116 137 2979 + 262 by 16 209 9 200 + 56 ch 5959 125454 6179 119275 + 5472 cy 130 1060 14 1046 + 146 cz 1370 40330 1315 39015 + 2595 de 21481 693821 41258 652563 + 832 dk 3452 101338 6737 94601 + 3028 dz 2 18 0 18 - 3 ee 442 8149 225 7924 + 541 eg 85 1796 60 1736 + 81 es 2990 102839 1617 101222 + 7717 fi 3220 314195 5004 309191 -12520 fo 23 89 0 89 + 1 fr 5208 234796 7612 227184 +17768 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 13 169 2 167 + 6 gr 657 16016 762 15254 + 5200 hr 413 4768 733 4035 + 392 hu 789 29046 786 28260 + 1418 ie 1248 25415 453 24962 + 1153 il 1747 51352 3383 47969 + 3606 is 274 10577 113 10464 + 17 it 6763 163830 11616 152214 +20886 li 80 255 71 184 + 18 lt 164 1748 95 1653 + 219 lu 243 4108 744 3364 + 524 lv 118 4976 250 4726 - 469 ma 27 501 65 436 + 28 md 11 22 2 20 + 2 mk 20 225 14 211 0 mt 56 472 69 403 + 88 nl 8510 241030 8741 232289 + 4838 no 4851 147180 5666 141514 + 8661 pl 1872 50373 2232 48141 + 3976 pt 755 21128 687 20441 + 1114 ro 384 4931 164 4767 + 398 ru 1719 39316 2990 36326 + 2959 se 9092 239339 13397 225942 +15859 si 566 13424 1060 12364 + 940 sk 368 7435 365 7070 + 598 sm 10 667 303 364 + 30 su 569 18532 853 17679 + 1582 tn 4 45 3 42 - 2 tr 539 13146 517 12629 + 2606 ua 292 7269 1274 5995 + 937 uk 31468 697703 98605 599098 -49118 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 125 1478 31 1447 - 539 ============================================================ 124880 3598489 239803 3358686 +68586