Dear all, Here is the hostcount for September 1996. The table shows an increase since last month of over 170,000 (or 5.7%) to a total of almost 3,300,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. Over the last quarter the number of hosts in Europe increased by +12.5%. The UK shows the highest increase for September with more than 45,000(!) hosts more than in August. DE still has the highest total amount of hosts registered. Last month I reported about a few zones that showed a significant decrease of hosts. At least for AT we found a reason: lack of disc space to hold the complete output file. The count was repeated beginning of September. The corrected data for AT can be found at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/at.{output,error}.9608.gz The complete hostcount data can 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/ 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> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Thu Aug 29 1996 This Count : Mon Sep 30 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 - 1 am 8 209 8 201 + 64 at 3027 89579 9927 79652 + 5715 az 4 17 0 17 0 be 2845 48760 2224 46536 + 1424 bg 115 2870 153 2717 + 818 by 17 147 3 144 + 17 ch 4822 119279 5476 113803 + 4797 cy 109 915 15 900 - 72 cz 1205 37691 1271 36420 + 1676 de 19680 690881 39150 651731 +23931 dk 3005 97031 5458 91573 + 7217 dz 2 21 0 21 + 3 ee 388 7565 182 7383 + 547 eg 73 1690 35 1655 + 515 es 2764 95151 1646 93505 + 4669 fi 2876 327886 6175 321711 +23632 fo 23 89 1 88 + 2 fr 4760 216884 7468 209416 + 5804 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 13 164 3 161 + 28 gr 432 10610 556 10054 - 1631 hr 364 4339 696 3643 + 261 hu 702 27538 696 26842 + 829 ie 1114 24184 375 23809 + 1525 il 1560 47549 3186 44363 - 380 is 249 10544 97 10447 - 188 it 6162 142851 11523 131328 + 7402 li 70 220 54 166 + 28 lt 132 1503 69 1434 + 43 lu 193 2980 140 2840 + 42 lv 127 5391 196 5195 + 2094 ma 24 473 65 408 + 52 md 10 20 2 18 + 1 mk 20 227 16 211 + 27 mt 48 377 62 315 + 42 nl 7885 235681 8230 227451 + 6341 no 4316 137936 5083 132853 + 6172 pl 1668 46391 2226 44165 + 5328 pt 898 20118 791 19327 + 3186 ro 328 4538 169 4369 + 368 ru 1539 36037 2670 33367 + 2837 se 8060 222469 12386 210083 +13859 si 501 12450 1026 11424 + 712 sk 309 6773 301 6472 + 629 sm 10 611 277 334 + 25 su 549 16838 741 16097 + 1016 tn 5 51 7 44 + 1 tr 429 10613 590 10023 - 1384 ua 246 6157 1099 5058 - 53 uk 28478 736112 87896 648216 +45790 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 139 2031 45 1986 + 225 ============================================================ 112312 3510565 220465 3290100 +175985