Dear All, below is the hostcount for December 2002. The table shows an increase since last month of almost 240,000 (or 1,3%) to a total of almost 18,640,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The uk domain shows the highest increase for December with approximately 155,000 hosts more than in November. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The October, 2002 data for dk, it, no and pt was reused due to a corrupted count for this month. - 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 Morten Christensen eg EUN Hostcount Admin es Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric 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, Paul Vlaar RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Wed Nov 27 2002 This Count : Wed Jan 22 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 158 2997 219 2778 6 ae 4388 57855 5523 52332 0 al 170 241 69 172 3 am 1650 4492 1642 2850 -87 at 173275 636415 268482 367933 2703 az 1595 2326 1187 1139 7 ba 1228 8641 2939 5702 252 be 88030 465266 128662 336604 -50030 bg 2006 41901 8915 32986 14 bj 49 608 34 574 0 by 1042 6413 2388 4025 0 ch 206023 954609 393707 560902 0 ci 571 4950 553 4397 5 cm 81 538 99 439 0 cv 60 244 196 48 5 cy 688 3308 616 2692 242 cz 120421 390006 163577 226429 7288 de 3721318 13745696 11151373 2594323 17073 dj 891 2756 2258 498 10 dk 263513 1266458 429827 836631 0 dz 133 1050 229 821 8 ee 11442 82369 19005 63364 270 eg 2233 5064 2003 3061 1261 er 72 961 102 859 -3 es 37123 642180 52201 589979 794 fi 35255 1292949 72887 1220062 19743 fr 107684 1871273 482592 1388681 5145 ga 66 119 40 79 1 gb 2 8 0 8 0 ge 1293 6439 3407 3032 8 gg 2111 3412 1778 1634 3 gh 92 372 59 313 -20 gi 165 641 127 514 -16 gl 1352 3640 726 2914 7 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 48 402 151 251 0 gq 5 5 2 3 -2 gr 48778 284861 124032 160829 1314 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 63097 316934 122431 194503 1113 ie 23176 178828 42341 136487 24 il 28659 286150 139359 146791 543 im 557 1714 721 993 -2 ir 776 5041 1550 3491 118 is 8503 1089856 1021595 68261 -4547 it 523294 1328721 656083 672638 0 je 2201 3445 1733 1712 5 jo 930 6388 2272 4116 29 ke 2217 4135 1172 2963 13 kg 882 7716 1786 5930 55 kz 3223 28331 11769 16562 572 lb 1425 9127 1928 7199 -499 li 6849 15188 11282 3906 0 lr 16 15 4 11 0 lt 10654 66534 11929 54605 1184 lu 0 0 0 0 0 lv 7949 94810 59318 35492 0 ma 2446 6951 4271 2680 34 mc 628 1188 707 481 2 mk 2128 4168 1001 3167 2168 mt 1561 10065 2710 7355 11 ng 357 2117 1087 1030 3 nl 648039 4756002 1618799 3137203 61650 no 71946 360658 104916 255742 0 pl 141950 913826 256331 657495 0 pt 20016 209895 45184 164711 0 qa 84 479 308 171 2 ro 14787 66345 25374 40971 -3812 ru 142066 898520 517327 381193 8866 sa 3379 18261 3473 14788 28 se 83628 1059296 210122 849174 5165 si 10897 50366 14575 35791 -2 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 56449 224140 138142 85998 870 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 1029 3053 1442 1611 -142 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1514 356170 328134 28036 237 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 68 20 9 11 0 tj 143 1005 703 302 -1 tm 1341 3473 1453 2020 298 tn 1197 1289 948 341 6 tr 25290 198268 43683 154585 2978 ua 42672 218375 146684 71691 621 ug 724 2801 559 2242 4 uk 1738312 6532677 3666747 2865930 154860 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 151 263 150 113 1 yu 14112 30002 13030 16972 151 ============================================================== 91 8555894 41223199 22585344 18637855 238610