Dear all, Here is the hostcount for March 1997. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 162,000 (or 4.0%) to a total of over 4,200,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. This comes to a total increase of 14.6% during the last three months. The UK shows the highest increase for March with more than 24,000 hosts more than in February. 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 intersted 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 Herman Moons <Herman.Moons@CS.kuleuven.ac.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 Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek@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 Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.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 : Fri Feb 28 1997 This Count : Mon Mar 31 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 0 am 17 221 7 214 + 24 at 5709 113351 10318 103033 + 2110 az 3 52 1 51 - 24 ba 11 50 1 49 + 19 be 4578 84804 3720 81084 + 3399 bg 185 4276 162 4114 + 536 by 20 365 17 348 + 58 ch 9628 150826 9738 141088 + 2631 cy 210 1626 20 1606 + 31 cz 2642 48999 1771 47228 + 2839 de 36424 821139 48567 772572 +16155 dk 19176 131575 9334 122241 + 7714 dz 2 27 0 27 0 ee 648 10518 527 9991 + 824 eg 153 1434 56 1378 + 151 es 4273 138859 3319 135540 + 8291 fi 4458 358482 6727 351755 +18897 fo 35 101 0 101 + 5 fr 7885 283939 12679 271260 +11669 gb 2 41 0 41 0 ge 16 265 2 263 + 19 gr 949 22212 966 21246 + 1383 hr 580 6736 1027 5709 + 133 hu 1344 35478 1961 33517 + 1967 ie 2068 31861 1290 30571 + 595 il 2612 64336 6480 57856 + 3146 is 413 12645 172 12473 + 110 it 11383 238543 20136 218407 +17718 li 118 369 99 270 + 51 lt 279 2172 138 2034 + 105 lu 449 4409 523 3886 + 186 lv 250 6792 445 6347 + 142 ma 35 599 34 565 + 71 md 15 114 15 99 - 10 mk 29 236 13 223 - 102 mt 88 636 97 539 - 19 nl 12996 308517 13999 294518 +11244 no 7760 192447 9024 183423 + 7588 pl 2985 62886 2936 59950 + 2911 pt 1357 28455 1152 27303 + 2736 ro 536 9967 476 9491 + 498 ru 3055 54697 4399 50298 + 375 se 14768 279712 13015 266697 + 6636 si 944 17155 1268 15887 + 604 sk 953 11999 1824 10175 + 1125 sm 14 1042 485 557 + 37 su 740 21082 1054 20028 + 2347 tn 3 56 5 51 - 5 tr 1626 22552 2049 20503 + 1136 ua 387 9665 2387 7278 + 132 uk 48293 933031 126670 806361 +24088 va 2 8 0 8 + 3 yu 362 3121 146 2975 + 181 ============================================================ 213473 4534559 321251 4213308 +162460