Dear All, below is the hostcount for September 1999. The table shows an increase since last month of over 380,000 (or 4.2%) to a total of over 9,500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The it domain shows the highest increase for September with approximately 130,000 hosts more than in August. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - We apologise for the (as usual, unavoidable) delay in publication of the hostcount this month, caused mainly by operational problems with the de zone. No data file could be acquired for the following TLD's: uk - collection problem be - transfer problem cf, ne - axfr block at top level Last month's data was used for uk and be so as to keep the overall figure somewhat consistent with previous months. Despite the problems described, the total hosts and zones counted rose quite sharply. This was not not due to the lateness of publication, since the majority of the data was collected at the usual time. - 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 lu Alain Frieden 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 Admin uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley eu David Knight If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Sep 10 1999 This Count : Mon Oct 18 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 329 1087 450 637 + 1 ae 685 23072 337 22735 + 3756 al 29 235 15 220 + 5 am 315 1607 397 1210 + 33 at 45779 305375 96946 208429 + 7339 az 117 587 56 531 - 18 ba 110 2436 148 2288 + 83 be 19421 330566 34541 296025 0 bf 18 461 84 377 + 1 bg 848 17872 1875 15997 + 290 bh 37 1739 201 1538 + 9 bj 12 101 12 89 - 28 by 85 996 166 830 - 351 ch 77479 393233 99130 294103 + 10291 ci 121 406 136 270 + 5 cm 11 237 7 230 + 4 cv 15 44 38 6 + 1 cy 419 4843 246 4597 - 726 cz 41001 144315 31976 112339 + 4637 de 597486 3268688 1700762 1567926 + 39447 dj 6 44 6 38 0 dk 88158 418079 102316 315763 + 4444 dz 21 108 8 100 - 36 ee 3463 30719 2688 28031 + 531 eg 1117 2819 607 2212 + 109 er 1 3 0 3 + 1 es 17349 542171 28143 514028 + 52065 fi 12771 495999 24551 471448 + 1644 fo 290 945 48 897 + 6 fr 47376 737897 90731 647166 + 61556 ga 15 46 25 21 + 1 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 76 1007 47 960 + 9 gg 247 387 186 201 + 16 gh 21 389 35 354 + 55 gi 164 132 45 87 - 280 gl 318 2839 550 2289 + 27 gn 3 6 0 6 - 33 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 9956 81135 9081 72054 + 3282 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2627 18142 3834 14308 + 634 hu 10335 124727 23209 101518 - 9302 ie 8924 70595 8647 61948 - 5311 il 12280 176290 34706 141584 + 7229 im 203 348 141 207 + 3 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 92 1050 129 921 - 75 is 2555 29865 2373 27492 + 142 it 73364 648725 94627 554098 +133182 je 240 345 111 234 + 20 jo 529 1467 504 963 - 2 ke 429 4258 990 3268 + 504 kg 119 1706 267 1439 + 288 kz 664 5276 1052 4224 + 1091 lb 1273 4710 1501 3209 + 522 li 1546 3300 1381 1919 + 150 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 2274 14003 1299 12704 + 615 lu 2952 11823 2102 9721 + 605 lv 1591 21690 4769 16921 + 439 ma 287 2691 464 2227 + 1662 mc 173 551 189 362 - 34 mk 468 1682 251 1431 + 10 ml 19 229 14 215 + 24 mt 446 5922 594 5328 + 5 ng 205 766 480 286 + 14 nl 95878 958213 141490 816723 + 35280 no 27477 392841 25349 367492 + 2557 om 33 2924 49 2875 + 1 pl 28928 242130 71996 170134 + 2366 pt 7484 78559 12200 66359 + 318 qa 33 1081 11 1070 - 4 ro 3458 37399 5634 31765 - 36 ru 26137 271440 58266 213174 + 15670 sa 811 4863 990 3873 + 252 se 36430 565888 46246 519642 + 11204 si 3133 25073 3451 21622 - 832 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 10207 36749 10285 26464 - 12 sl 7 76 0 76 + 2 sm 112 386 31 355 + 11 sn 128 1080 220 860 + 32 su 1429 29551 1973 27578 + 1098 sy 7 15 9 6 + 5 tj 191 1193 794 399 + 25 tm 1590 2432 1588 844 - 412 tn 1 90 57 33 + 4 tr 8787 89229 11506 77723 - 7314 ua 3886 44361 17822 26539 - 290 ug 42 189 39 150 + 3 uk 249754 2061935 451129 1610806 0 uz 269 746 369 377 + 25 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 35 50 21 29 0 yu 3282 12214 1790 10424 + 75 ============================================================== 96 1598807 12823560 3273546 9550014 +380619 ============================================================== -2 - 95* ======= +380524 * The TLD's 'ne' and 'cf' were included in the count last month but not this month due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. Their total contibution to the number of real hosts was 95.