Dear All, ----------------------------------------------------------- This month's hostcount is dedicated to Eric Wassenaar, who was sadly killed in a traffic accident recently. Eric was the maintainer of the host tool which we use to perform the hostcount, and has helped us numerous times in the past in this context. We thank you Eric. ----------------------------------------------------------- Below is the hostcount for March 2000. The table shows an increase since last month of around 230,000 (or 2.1%) to a total of around 10,900,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The 'no' domain shows the highest increase for March with approximately 120,000 hosts more than in February. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - the February data had to be reused for dk due to the collector moving network and office. - the January data had to be resused for uk due to problems for the last two months with co.uk. - gq had to be removed from the count due to us having no zone transfer access at the top level. - 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 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 NOC Staff 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 Hostcount Staff 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 : Tue Mar 14 2000 This Count : Fri Apr 14 2000 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 423 1337 639 698 + 4 ae 1259 29799 1309 28490 + 4080 al 42 215 16 199 0 am 359 3279 832 2447 + 46 at 74885 412564 123578 288986 + 2498 az 114 657 52 605 - 54 ba 142 2447 226 2221 + 6 be 20761 350861 31505 319356 + 9604 bg 922 18826 1666 17160 + 302 bh 50 1809 286 1523 + 16 bj 15 125 9 116 0 by 127 2527 296 2231 - 6 ch 101537 376412 140087 236325 - 29255 ci 169 620 211 409 + 5 cm 17 266 18 248 + 9 cv 9 81 63 18 + 2 cy 634 7315 662 6653 + 119 cz 53563 175757 46234 129523 + 2885 de 1022971 4965839 3292748 1673091 + 9617 dj 14 53 13 40 0 dk 119994 496273 143331 352942 0 dz 40 306 28 278 + 50 ee 4406 34622 4468 30154 - 546 eg 1575 3354 935 2419 + 188 er 1 7 0 7 + 3 es 16835 504266 25852 478414 + 58548 fi 16304 549163 36456 512707 + 29533 fo 357 1084 78 1006 + 9 fr 67960 1377975 93368 1284607 + 17893 ga 9 17 12 5 - 18 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 104 1166 85 1081 + 9 gg 340 1506 244 1262 - 18 gh 30 500 46 454 + 2 gi 171 2115 606 1509 - 8 gl 402 3024 599 2425 + 57 gn 7 393 167 226 - 2 gr 13028 100376 12927 87449 + 9991 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2308 14558 4231 10327 - 6288 hu 18496 155912 40949 114963 + 3385 ie 10709 121960 16246 105714 + 293 il 15909 153859 21136 132723 - 16954 im 230 1456 173 1283 - 18 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 125 1667 239 1428 + 101 is 3677 39441 3703 35738 + 2193 it 77331 457563 74168 383395 -138574 je 307 1470 168 1302 - 20 ke 571 3978 573 3405 - 16 kg 159 4215 389 3826 + 11 kz 897 7195 1036 6159 + 193 lb 1191 5081 1393 3688 + 9 li 2522 6152 2767 3385 + 87 lr 1 0 0 0 0 lt 3648 16377 1672 14705 - 36 lu 3260 13285 2230 11055 - 90 lv 1979 24911 5885 19026 + 225 ma 738 2732 1065 1667 + 12 mc 256 632 274 358 + 12 mk 486 2355 305 2050 + 441 ml 28 232 23 209 + 77 mt 626 7373 1148 6225 + 2 ng 262 1230 822 408 + 15 nl 219941 1449283 317252 1132031 + 85436 no 30815 482365 35566 446799 +118113 om 38 5730 2855 2875 - 5 pl 40800 314896 114692 200204 + 4280 pt 6160 97723 12564 85159 - 25641 qa 30 1071 15 1056 0 ro 5072 47221 6980 40241 + 4397 ru 26839 251015 62110 188905 + 14729 sa 1320 6121 1415 4706 - 371 se 41660 646746 55530 591216 + 67135 si 3641 28591 4071 24520 + 273 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 14398 44581 13139 31442 + 804 sl 7 79 0 79 0 sm 166 588 104 484 - 25 sn 138 1648 248 1400 - 18 su 1377 24784 1719 23065 - 4621 sy 1 5 2 3 - 3 tj 220 1545 979 566 + 72 tm 559 1639 806 833 + 33 tn 2 69 48 21 + 1 tr 11203 94641 11627 83014 + 2871 ua 6947 58042 28633 29409 + 246 ug 61 291 52 239 + 3 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 4759 16678 2875 13803 + 73 ============================================================== 91 2560298 16548977 5638582 10910395 +228411 -1 - 5* ======= +228406 * The TLD 'gq' was included in the count last month but not this month due to zone transfer restrictions at the top level. It's total contribution to the number of real hosts was 5.