Dear All, below is the hostcount for September 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 200,000 (or 2.8%) to a total of almost 7,500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The nl domain shows the highest increase for September with approximately 70,000 hosts more than in August. - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - tr and hr showed an unusual decrease. This was due to difficulties with the remote data. The figures shown reflect the locally-collected data. The it domain shows a large decrease. A quick check of the error data showed quite a large increase in AXFR refusals by a frequently-referenced nameserver. - Other Ways to Obtain the Hostcount - 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 has hosted the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <Gerhard.Winkler@univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.de> ch Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag@eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Morten Christensen <morten@dk-hostmaster.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez@rediris.es> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@heanet.ie> il Shuki Kenan <shuki@netvision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> li Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <armando@rccn.net> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk 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 Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Sat Sep 5 1998 This Count : Tue Oct 6 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 10 146 7 139 + 4 am 133 1074 185 889 + 65 at 24898 196798 40803 155995 + 1209 az 49 415 29 386 + 12 ba 43 577 40 537 - 12 be 10895 207580 21666 185914 + 2020 bg 590 11819 1341 10478 + 415 by 96 1140 153 987 + 139 ch 41615 276468 46540 229928 + 14912 cy 637 5216 151 5065 + 46 cz 16202 83698 10891 72807 + 1678 de 163637 1747865 325176 1422689 + 59749 dk 57921 328407 41477 286930 + 12206 dz 5 18 1 17 - 3 ee 2113 22810 1512 21298 + 408 eg 690 3050 208 2842 + 101 es 11013 272608 11017 261591 + 2241 fi 9132 471748 15152 456596 + 7891 fo 146 587 31 556 + 22 fr 26139 494713 34805 459908 + 5812 gb 2 26 0 26 0 ge 52 759 54 705 + 24 gr 6299 47471 3708 43763 + 2949 hr 1062 10103 2013 8090 - 2181 hu 6163 98907 9438 89469 + 2437 ie 6140 54753 5017 49736 + 1695 il 6889 129156 24424 104732 + 2269 is 1436 23987 988 22999 + 473 it 40557 401156 51450 349706 - 48018 li 677 1686 647 1039 + 3 lt 1105 9642 626 9016 + 774 lu 1490 7958 1148 6810 + 73 lv 912 13999 2377 11622 + 536 ma 240 2182 280 1902 + 135 md 73 665 142 523 + 6 mk 265 1069 115 954 + 45 mt 267 2062 304 1758 + 43 nl 46146 641841 52709 589132 + 70168 no 21192 332779 17273 315506 + 5573 pl 17237 150603 31905 118698 + 1630 pt 6817 58759 8014 50745 + 368 ro 1643 22897 2152 20745 + 900 ru 14701 184798 35598 149200 + 986 se 29452 429093 26798 402295 + 6051 si 2929 24473 2514 21959 + 1068 sk 5500 25080 4810 20270 + 432 sm 48 243 2 241 + 6 su 1298 28326 1775 26551 + 154 tn 11 166 91 75 - 5 tr 7104 30922 4605 26317 - 12352 ua 1577 29883 8863 21020 + 777 uk 122850 1642474 235298 1407176 + 58723 va 2 14 0 14 + 6 yu 1689 7611 641 6970 - 81 ============================================================== 719789 8542280 1086964 7455316 +204582