Dear All, below is the hostcount for December 1999. The table shows an increase since last month of over 60,000 (or 0.6%) to a total of over 10,275,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The 'no' domain shows the highest increase for December with approximately 64,000 hosts more than in November. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/pub-services/stats/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The excessive drop for ru was caused by a change in IP address for the counting machine. This resulted in many more AXFR refusals than previously. The de and it numbers are copied from the November 1999 count, since no new data was available due to technical difficulties. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by running the hostcount locally: ad Joan Marc Lauga am Edgar D Danielyan at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen eg Network Operator es Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Netvision 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 Armando Domingues ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr Hostcount Maintainer uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Dec 13 1999 This Count : Tue Jan 18 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 372 1225 536 689 + 47 ae 940 24370 518 23852 + 548 al 36 233 18 215 + 6 am 374 3001 688 2313 + 100 at 54425 371095 108463 262632 + 4371 az 155 682 79 603 + 22 ba 119 2419 187 2232 + 95 be 22658 377569 38212 339357 + 7406 bg 907 18877 2045 16832 + 898 bh 39 1725 230 1495 + 6 bj 15 131 9 122 + 6 by 95 1082 199 883 - 24 ch 89903 385861 116049 269812 - 24184 ci 142 418 142 276 + 13 cm 10 242 9 233 - 2 cv 7 67 50 17 0 cy 555 6819 594 6225 + 1 cz 46224 159919 37666 122253 + 2117 de 697088 3669941 2034874 1635067 0 dj 10 49 10 39 0 dk 103493 450173 111934 338239 - 4898 dz 21 210 10 200 - 2 ee 3983 34299 4196 30103 + 1429 eg 1319 3085 730 2355 + 232 er 1 4 0 4 + 1 es 17643 497593 28006 469587 + 27114 fi 14744 498989 37229 461760 - 13849 fo 310 774 52 722 - 1 fr 57587 1354019 120948 1233071 + 25254 ga 17 42 20 22 + 5 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 79 942 44 898 - 81 gg 337 1502 251 1251 - 44 gh 23 403 50 353 + 1 gi 218 1045 596 449 + 1 gl 373 2981 574 2407 + 71 gn 8 393 166 227 + 3 gq 5 11 6 5 0 gr 11492 85968 10880 75088 - 570 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2928 19050 4515 14535 - 329 hu 11833 151108 31466 119642 + 7391 ie 9650 73723 9810 63913 - 2035 il 14433 201696 52206 149490 + 1205 im 263 1472 185 1287 - 25 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 99 1285 118 1167 + 17 is 2966 33638 3766 29872 + 1084 it 44153 347216 45688 301528 0 je 344 1501 203 1298 - 30 jo 565 1572 594 978 - 4 ke 422 3824 459 3365 - 13 kg 185 3887 352 3535 + 201 kz 798 6658 943 5715 - 434 lb 1215 5532 1643 3889 - 12 li 2082 5291 1922 3369 + 3 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 2715 15660 1467 14193 + 49 lu 2939 11683 2069 9614 - 39 lv 1907 24329 5452 18877 + 166 ma 651 2997 963 2034 - 405 mc 229 581 245 336 - 2 mk 519 1804 317 1487 + 102 ml 29 243 19 224 + 2 mt 555 6879 874 6005 + 351 ng 257 1390 793 597 + 244 nl 124124 1131625 172542 959083 + 62837 no 30452 467253 28292 438961 + 63749 om 34 2923 57 2866 - 4 pl 33550 256178 84961 171217 - 2935 pt 5784 87550 9789 77761 + 13152 qa 32 1084 15 1069 - 2 ro 4085 41942 5648 36294 + 1508 ru 7752 80887 16902 63985 -121572 sa 1130 5423 1263 4160 + 223 se 37799 571964 49076 522888 + 10891 si 3230 27262 3663 23599 + 1185 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 10995 39494 11311 28183 + 632 sl 7 77 0 77 0 sm 105 526 47 479 - 15 sn 170 1181 237 944 + 37 su 1463 29370 1925 27445 + 69 sy 7 15 9 6 0 tj 219 1412 901 511 + 62 tm 1367 2479 1627 852 - 90 tn 1 103 70 33 - 1 tr 10089 91212 12334 78878 - 415 ua 5096 50597 21624 28973 + 1275 ug 35 208 28 180 - 1 uk 433251 2485027 745976 1739051 - 2649 va 2 9 0 9 + 1 ye 41 58 28 30 + 2 yu 3626 12765 2221 10544 + 138 ============================================================== 94 1941917 14269849 3992886 10276963 + 61656