Dear All, below is the hostcount for January 2001. The table shows an decrease since last month of around 35,000 (or 0.3%) to a total of nearly 12,690,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The de domain shows the highest increase for January with approximately 120,000 hosts more than in December 2000. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - the January, 2000 data had to be reused for uk due to problems with co.uk. since that time. - the December data had to be reused for dk and it due to truncated data. - sn was removed from the count due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. - jo was added to the count after recent transfer problems were resolved. - 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 Hrant Dadivanyan at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen eg EUN Hostcount Admin es ES NIC fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Netvision 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 METU Hostcount Admin 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 : Wed Jan 10 2000 This Count : Wed Feb 14 2001 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 547 2389 760 1629 - 21 ae 2364 42962 1687 41275 - 1687 al 78 242 32 210 + 1 am 955 3987 1317 2670 + 7 at 129907 712928 209233 503695 + 20487 az 496 1860 402 1458 - 84 ba 300 3038 665 2373 + 89 be 47220 365669 60272 305397 + 5204 bg 1200 22378 2981 19397 + 968 bh 21 113 58 55 + 2 by 270 3071 428 2643 + 610 ch 163366 486524 223004 263520 + 1010 ci 317 3359 386 2973 + 2366 cm 37 339 25 314 + 1 cv 19 128 103 25 - 2 cy 768 9184 788 8396 + 398 cz 86498 247716 84187 163529 + 4210 de 2268105 8887537 6727821 2159716 + 119279 dk 169764 549434 215456 333978 0 ee 6537 53870 10512 43358 + 2449 eg 1436 2934 891 2043 - 197 er 24 248 21 227 - 1 es 15962 377766 21854 355912 - 99575 fi 20385 597373 52856 544517 + 15256 fr 93583 1334128 170383 1163745 + 41338 ga 24 45 10 35 + 1 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 414 2555 869 1686 - 48 gg 1075 1912 680 1232 - 98 gh 29 356 37 319 + 302 gi 443 1397 123 1274 + 228 gl 682 2812 337 2475 - 5 gn 10 336 136 200 0 gr 18152 136774 22854 113920 + 3312 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 3883 28566 10657 17909 + 1307 hu 30497 177162 51735 125427 + 21012 ie 14435 135680 20000 115680 + 5135 il 18670 159280 55760 103520 + 583 ir 210 2120 391 1729 + 39 is 5791 62605 21814 40791 + 890 it 384160 1507968 488257 1019711 0 je 1083 1876 602 1274 - 112 jo + 548 1535 655 880 + 880 ke 1058 5550 766 4784 + 7 kg 430 4725 712 4013 - 102 kz 1726 9287 1792 7495 + 112 lb 1 0 0 0 0 li 4574 9055 5452 3603 - 421 lr 11 0 0 0 0 lt 6320 22922 4707 18215 + 411 lu 4857 16011 4016 11995 + 181 lv 4331 26277 6654 19623 - 302 ma 1286 4063 2183 1880 + 22 mc 348 889 449 440 - 11 mk 686 2120 512 1608 + 20 mt 951 8490 1747 6743 + 146 ng 277 2071 1384 687 - 3 nl 386794 2340299 702456 1637843 + 14276 no 40333 495322 37713 457609 + 4932 om 90 5878 2965 2913 + 5 pl 71972 534306 164631 369675 + 29859 pt 7830 72755 14269 58486 - 3661 qa 37 2388 133 2255 0 ro 9115 57010 14133 42877 + 1354 ru 24552 136485 53084 83401 -221212 sa 1760 6330 1918 4412 + 667 se 60737 662474 64405 598069 + 2371 si 4077 20609 5078 15531 - 6337 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 23800 62794 23028 39766 + 1845 sl 7 215 0 215 + 5 sm 272 1240 194 1046 + 4 su 1480 25859 1967 23892 + 1982 sy 3 18 9 9 0 tj 114 950 679 271 - 2 tm 457 1867 641 1226 - 5 tn 2 83 57 26 0 tr 2306 71368 3022 68346 - 1577 ua 16617 93241 61162 32079 - 3708 ug 271 357 171 186 0 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 6971 21134 5371 15763 + 728 ============================================================== 84 4655021 23158115 10472897 12685218 - 32880 -1 - 1836* ======= - 34716 + 'jo' was added to the count this month after zone transfer difficulties of recent months were resolved. * 'sn' was included in the count last month but not this month due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. It's total contribution to the number of real hosts was 1836.