Dear all, Here is the hostcount for November 1997. The table shows an increase since last month of over 260,000 (or 4.9%) to a total of almost 5,700,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. DE shows the highest increase for November with more than 80,000 (!) hosts more than in October. The 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/hostcount.html If you are interested in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services is hosting the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe 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 DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.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 Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@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 Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> Robert Stone <robert@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 : Thu Oct 30 1997 This Count : Fri Nov 28 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 11 125 5 120 + 6 am 51 487 70 417 + 81 at 11916 129660 24810 104850 +11496 az 13 337 3 334 + 188 ba 14 124 6 118 + 33 be 7278 114559 8887 105672 + 6828 bg 367 6955 397 6558 - 47 by 50 685 59 626 + 41 ch 21232 204806 20993 183813 +14888 cy 375 3245 77 3168 + 40 cz 6543 59868 3253 56615 - 474 de 75892 1253587 164569 1089018 +83755 dk 34788 183551 18790 164761 + 9053 dz 2 38 1 37 0 ee 1236 16117 748 15369 + 1757 eg 367 1920 108 1812 - 878 es 7159 199412 5216 194196 + 7304 fi 7151 482329 10831 471498 +31168 fo 77 290 7 283 + 22 fr 13464 370802 24291 346511 +20204 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 28 420 19 401 + 27 gr 1954 28266 1962 26304 - 154 hr 999 9195 1255 7940 + 898 hu 2853 65847 5262 60585 + 2110 ie 3737 41490 2531 38959 + 2232 il 4085 90745 8375 82370 +14280 is 797 17969 730 17239 + 855 it 22572 328399 46347 282052 + 6591 li 265 1067 301 766 + 27 lt 536 3984 230 3754 + 385 lu 818 5788 910 4878 + 151 lv 443 7476 996 6480 + 166 ma 86 1138 127 1011 - 33 md 30 284 40 244 + 6 mk 43 498 46 452 + 11 mt 131 1067 166 901 + 57 nl 24478 414492 32385 382107 + 8685 no 13259 303180 12069 291111 + 4459 pl 7372 95227 9267 85960 +10635 pt 4631 45016 3137 41879 + 1880 ro 917 14077 854 13223 + 578 ru 7282 112092 12305 99787 + 6635 se 22004 362778 17823 344955 +14177 si 1718 21180 2442 18738 + 269 sk 2550 16911 2979 13932 + 773 sm 23 223 9 214 + 2 su 848 22544 938 21606 -19539 tn 4 81 29 52 + 3 tr 4012 35177 3447 31730 - 321 ua 706 17805 4595 13210 - 677 uk 73003 1163897 161145 1002752 +23390 va 2 10 0 10 0 yu 115 3796 103 3693 - 325 ============================================================ 390289 6261056 615945 5645111 +263698