Dear all, Here is the hostcount for May 1997. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 200,000 (or 4.7%) to a total of more than 4,600,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. DE shows the highest increase for May with almost 60,000 hosts more than in April. 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 : Tue Apr 29 1997 This Count : Fri May 30 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 0 am 25 284 12 272 + 12 at 7055 107825 14086 93739 + 2192 az 6 76 1 75 + 3 ba 11 58 3 55 + 2 be 5207 90186 4005 86181 + 1107 bg 245 5382 235 5147 + 705 by 19 414 19 395 + 181 ch 11933 157983 11566 146417 +10370 cy 263 1982 20 1962 + 438 cz 3268 52206 2039 50167 + 1163 de 45406 941384 61001 880383 +59156 dk 22881 141593 11018 130575 + 3806 dz 2 32 1 31 + 1 ee 776 11433 528 10905 + 825 eg 200 2181 64 2117 + 282 es 4907 159522 4142 155380 + 2550 fi 5212 390608 8269 382339 +13996 fo 40 110 3 107 + 3 fr 8906 301268 14753 286515 + 1389 gb 2 40 0 40 0 ge 17 292 7 285 + 28 gr 949 22212 966 21246 - 794 hr 675 6726 1031 5695 - 200 hu 1602 44361 3432 40929 + 1406 ie 2472 33810 1499 32311 + 1243 il 2957 66878 5293 61585 + 2020 is 485 13643 202 13441 + 393 it 13989 261365 23399 237966 +12293 li 143 711 144 567 + 285 lt 326 2858 192 2666 + 480 lu 549 4182 367 3815 - 147 lv 292 7731 605 7126 + 454 ma 44 742 86 656 + 143 md 22 175 21 154 + 6 mk 35 411 23 388 + 68 mt 98 863 107 756 - 12 nl 16073 342751 15964 326787 +25668 no 8934 218669 11366 207303 +13768 pl 3865 73062 4164 68898 + 3107 pt 2051 35925 1803 34122 + 6116 ro 589 10617 517 10100 + 411 ru 4782 79028 7818 71210 + 5552 se 17233 302879 14695 288184 + 7738 si 1140 18498 1818 16680 + 224 sk 1279 12156 1938 10218 + 7 sm 14 1156 545 611 + 13 su 782 21846 1131 20715 + 76 tn 2 43 3 40 - 14 tr 2144 26601 2814 23787 + 1018 ua 487 13073 2793 10280 + 1385 uk 55247 981022 137585 843437 +25196 va 2 8 0 8 0 yu 471 3668 107 3561 + 788 ============================================================ 256119 4972608 374200 4598408 +206900