Dear All, below is the hostcount for September 2002. The table shows an decrease since last month of over 110,000 (or 0,7%) to a total of almost 16,680,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The at domain shows the highest increase for September with approximately 165,000 hosts more than in August. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The data for lu, nl and no had to be reused as the data was incomplete. - 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 Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris 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 If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Paul Vlaar RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Sep 27 2002 This Count : Fri Oct 25 2002 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 76 171 104 67 -12 ae 4388 57855 5523 52332 0 al 143 235 69 166 4 am 1623 4921 1802 3119 85 at 168282 621587 257714 363873 165137 az 1578 2523 1174 1349 1 ba 786 2701 2012 689 -5166 be 83321 498422 114916 383506 738 bg 975 19218 3956 15262 -15888 bj 46 616 33 583 6 by 573 2756 1371 1385 -2458 ch 192014 894774 355117 539657 3480 ci 509 3746 535 3211 0 cm 75 559 86 473 4 cv 51 234 192 42 1 cy 609 2868 540 2328 172 cz 117238 368834 156312 212522 1708 de 3570791 13200875 10647730 2553145 -63450 dj 656 777 559 218 0 dk 258594 1177204 433988 743216 -31994 dz 138 985 189 796 33 ee 10552 63247 11243 52004 -38590 eg 367 2084 284 1800 0 er 68 858 61 797 7 es 33851 601535 48124 553411 -5413 fi 34521 1220348 73452 1146896 6114 fr 106434 1745949 450462 1295487 6475 ga 60 105 34 71 0 gb 2 8 0 8 0 ge 1164 5812 3094 2718 41 gg 2101 3339 1703 1636 2 gh 70 354 44 310 6 gi 803 1583 329 1254 1 gl 1214 3300 667 2633 -1 gm 184 184 135 49 2 gn 46 401 150 251 0 gq 5 8 2 6 0 gr 45735 204083 48321 155762 1382 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 8811 55026 27894 27132 274 hu 59100 290238 113786 176452 1783 ie 22130 150944 30250 120694 -3099 il 9567 186011 70578 115433 -29332 im 590 1400 678 722 14 ir 613 4248 1231 3017 0 is 8252 1027275 960765 66510 1610 it 520004 1342554 666768 675786 5954 je 2191 3387 1720 1667 -6 jo 891 6171 2106 4065 6 ke 609 1885 259 1626 -2 kg 786 7039 1468 5571 0 kz 3192 16006 3942 12064 3 lb 1400 9519 1853 7666 2 li 6603 14564 10854 3710 -129 lr 16 15 4 11 0 lt 10015 49620 10538 39082 0 lu 5591 18842 5720 13122 0 lv 4379 37321 22381 14940 -14968 ma 2385 6688 4120 2568 16 mc 337 558 366 192 0 mk 267 1278 279 999 0 mt 1498 9927 2606 7321 1 ng 342 2104 1085 1019 1 nl 610534 4052604 1435681 2616923 0 no 15753 56672 18318 38354 0 pl 97829 672646 138142 534504 -53179 pt 20089 210241 46248 163993 667 qa 73 460 301 159 2 ro 14403 69466 24229 45237 513 ru 145174 870502 491196 379306 -4107 sa 3127 15404 3180 12224 0 se 80738 918090 158695 759395 -33578 si 10361 47626 13584 34042 12 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 52827 216763 133881 82882 96 sl 7 287 7 280 0 sm 991 3255 1517 1738 18 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1333 355438 327001 28437 4 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 0 0 0 0 -11 tj 81 414 317 97 0 tm 729 1615 687 928 -770 tn 33 545 286 259 2 tr 23157 183030 39512 143518 -2319 ua 24942 117893 76851 41042 8 ug 349 390 219 171 0 uk 1626198 5712156 3327963 2384193 -4749 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 146 257 147 110 2 yu 12393 27272 11015 16257 12 ============================================================== 91 8050489 37490760 20812266 16678494 -112822