Dear All, Below is the hostcount for November 2003. The table shows an increase since last month of over 372,000 (or 1,80%) to a total of almost 20,600,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The 'nl' domain shows the highest increase for November with approximately 155,000 hosts more than in October. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - * Staff holidays delayed the production of this month's hostcount. * The data for 'it' is incomplete due to problems with the remote collection. * The October, 2003 data was used for 'lt' due to problems with the remote collection. * The data for 'mk' is incomplete due to problems with the remote collection. * The May, 2003 data was used for 'ru' due to problems with the remote collection. - 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 DK Hostmaster es Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis 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, Bruce Campbell RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Thu Nov 20 2003 This Count : Thu Dec 25 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 177 4401 265 4136 12 ae 11317 79523 23422 56101 56 al 224 313 110 203 2 am 848 2834 1409 1425 468 at 42023 105363 58511 46852 0 az 1359 1851 1276 575 11 ba 1808 12168 4975 7193 515 be 102470 411493 188107 223386 1234 bg 2333 62171 14334 47837 1822 bj 53 910 58 852 13 by 1568 8358 3918 4440 27 ch 192356 893885 356486 537399 0 ci 651 4315 524 3791 0 cm 106 590 127 463 5 cv 123 380 319 61 7 cy 1724 7584 1840 5744 78 cz 131901 475350 203408 271942 -14499 de 3932358 14485905 11970275 2515630 66326 dj 1030 1782 1150 632 8 dk 348674 2142250 991482 1150768 8284 dz 164 1260 408 852 -2 ee 13429 92804 29145 63659 -395 eg 2523 5579 2252 3327 7 er 71 1252 206 1046 5 es 54010 842088 79432 762656 12723 fi 58011 1343305 96923 1246382 8096 fr 111090 2213295 506682 1706613 39656 ga 77 214 94 120 29 gb 2 3 0 3 0 ge 1652 9152 4211 4941 53 gg 2074 3903 2237 1666 38 gh 127 491 102 389 6 gi 177 721 143 578 0 gl 1496 3963 1355 2608 -339 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 59 531 156 375 2 gq 3 8 5 3 0 gr 58419 333476 138466 195010 2972 gw 1 2 0 2 0 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 85212 530355 172699 357656 8820 ie 24477 203868 48662 155206 1704 il 38344 560449 146558 413891 5819 im 585 1628 785 843 0 ir 1737 8369 3595 4774 395 is 9728 171606 67185 104421 3002 it 494880 2198406 1587916 610490 5109 je 2224 3553 1830 1723 0 jo 1129 5759 2664 3095 11 ke 1 4 0 4 0 kg 822 16358 4104 12254 55 kz 3895 109001 90123 18878 31 lb 1466 9532 2007 7525 259 li 5605 12041 8648 3393 0 lr 18 21 7 14 1 lt 7012 23318 5377 17941 0 lu 4071 8082 4682 3400 0 lv 9004 120625 80696 39929 404 ma 2582 9001 5485 3516 2 mc 733 1481 970 511 5 mk 2770 4933 1397 3536 33 mt 1706 10771 3134 7637 15 ng 419 2244 1159 1085 16 nl 828446 6430239 3187649 3242590 155417 no 125878 713209 153678 559531 -2609 pl 151334 1147479 373142 774337 -114 pt 18662 314031 86575 227456 38864 qa 107 616 395 221 0 ro 20823 88714 39037 49677 1584 ru 218544 1324411 907727 416684 0 sa 4069 20174 4122 16052 -9 se 86678 1213726 283320 930406 8095 si 13342 63025 20587 42438 213 sk 39348 169441 59793 109648 9305 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 1053 2958 1484 1474 -149 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 2910 360148 330913 29235 -29 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 75 23 10 13 1 tj 3 10 8 2 -307 tm 330 893 354 539 2 tn 37 471 216 255 0 tr 32483 283424 53656 229768 934 ua 54667 303643 215397 88246 1041 ug 880 3069 677 2392 10 uk 2027467 7509710 4280158 3229552 7081 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 179 313 175 138 0 yu 16878 41312 21620 19692 23 ============================================================== 90 9428659 47615024 26972783 20642241 372254