Dear All, below is the hostcount for July 1999. The table shows an increase since last month of around 670,000 (or 7,9%) to a total of almost 9,150,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The it domain shows the highest increase for July with approximately 350,000 hosts more than in June. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The large increase in the it domain was due in part to the addition of several 'huge' domains which were previously blocked. The large increase in fi was due to a major provider allowing zone transfers from one of their secondary nameservers which had been accidentally blocked last month. - 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 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 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 Hostcount Administrator 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 : Tue Jul 13 1999 This Count : Wed Aug 4 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 320 1072 454 618 + 1 ae 550 17910 489 17421 - 232 al 20 226 14 212 + 2 am 266 1358 315 1043 - 198 at 42517 267422 77342 190080 + 3732 az 109 607 65 542 + 166 ba 116 2190 135 2055 + 644 be 18839 342859 33383 309476 - 2484 bf 15 392 83 309 + 7 bg 820 17036 1667 15369 + 199 bh 32 1694 179 1515 + 99 bj 14 128 11 117 - 1 by 197 1459 312 1147 + 12 cf 2 7 0 7 0 ch 69772 353013 90940 262073 - 6633 ci 106 343 63 280 + 43 cm 7 227 3 224 - 14 cv 13 39 34 5 - 13 cy 810 5581 349 5232 + 47 cz 35731 131211 25925 105286 + 3100 de 464296 2802512 1276247 1526265 + 51741 dj 6 44 6 38 - 1 dk 82955 409800 92094 317706 + 8552 dz 13 64 6 58 - 121 ee 3239 29149 2257 26892 - 262 eg 869 2877 398 2479 - 92 er 1 2 0 2 0 es 15544 393005 23859 369146 + 7211 fi 13014 511217 36546 474671 + 63237 fo 258 913 46 867 + 10 fr 44386 702557 83705 618852 + 11897 ga 15 48 25 23 - 1 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 76 1010 49 961 + 16 gg 222 270 168 102 + 7 gh 18 339 37 302 + 296 gi 161 958 601 357 + 1 gl 285 2768 541 2227 + 14 gn 2 33 0 33 + 23 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 9343 74529 7849 66680 + 3481 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2724 18112 4458 13654 + 134 hu 9835 126435 17771 108664 + 3200 ie 8275 73760 8547 65213 + 4405 il 10850 169598 35218 134380 + 3204 im 196 237 99 138 + 17 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 91 1081 107 974 - 72 is 2380 29078 1995 27083 + 1415 it 68236 641784 88563 553221 +355662 je 213 216 96 120 + 5 jo 492 1421 463 958 + 15 ke 372 3457 963 2494 + 14 kg 89 1275 170 1105 + 29 kz 528 3928 760 3168 + 500 lb 1118 4123 1315 2808 + 58 li 1269 2432 1147 1285 - 459 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 2053 13236 1129 12107 + 227 lu 2703 10812 1862 8950 + 314 lv 1427 20279 4250 16029 + 49 ma 529 3461 814 2647 + 398 mc 217 625 230 395 - 133 mk 543 1825 248 1577 + 16 ml 17 200 9 191 + 42 mt 396 5978 552 5426 - 6 ne 13 85 4 81 - 47 ng 246 829 576 253 + 22 nl 82462 862957 116648 746309 + 21453 no 27619 373281 24569 348712 + 2114 om 27 2895 25 2870 + 16 pl 27096 223216 57339 165877 + 23826 pt 9161 78348 11565 66783 + 298 qa 33 1075 10 1065 + 1 ro 3258 37219 5262 31957 + 3428 ru 24577 257938 56051 201887 + 309 sa 665 4380 900 3480 + 34 se 34836 541664 39022 502642 + 4315 si 4444 26363 3437 22926 + 81 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 9346 34415 8567 25848 - 244 sl 7 74 0 74 + 74 sm 99 363 23 340 + 5 sn 129 1094 267 827 + 91 su 1656 27520 1788 25732 - 478 sy 4 1 0 1 0 tj 182 1145 775 370 + 40 tm 1633 2951 1658 1293 + 45 tn 1 76 48 28 + 1 tr 9234 99809 14109 85700 + 347 ua 3401 41598 15638 25960 + 1523 ug 29 165 20 145 + 11 uk 235251 2000633 406127 1594506 + 98271 uz 236 621 333 288 - 71 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 33 47 20 27 - 1 yu 2786 10420 1444 8976 + 586 ============================================================== 98 1397990 11841471 2693195 9148276 +669570