Dear All, below is the hostcount for November 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 160,000 (or 2.2%) to a total of almost 7,820,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The gw domain shows the highest increase for November with approximately 47,000 hosts more than in October. A complication of circumstances resulted in me not being able to get *any* data for cz, thus the table shows last months values. - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - This month we have added 48 TLDs to the 54 which have been fairly constant for some years. We would expect this to result in a boost to the overall increase for this month, but in fact the increase is around the usual range, due to the 'traditional' TLDs having lower increases than usual (another demonstration that the per-month figures are less interesting than the long-term trend). The table this month has a few extra features to highlight the newcomers: - The new TLDs are indicated with a '+' in the far left column. - There are two subtotal lines before the grand total. The first indicates what the hostcount *would* have been without the newcomers. The second shows the total contribution of the newcomers to the overall count. - The 'CHANGE' field for TLDs that were introduced this month is the same as the 'REAL' field (the number of non-duplicate hosts counted), because for the purposes of the hostcount they had 0 hosts last month. This is the reason why gw has the highest change for this month. - Other Ways to Obtain the Hostcount - 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 - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: ad Joan Marc Lauga <Postmaster@DINIS.AD> at Gerhard Winkler <Gerhard.Winkler@univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.be> ch Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> cycz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag@eunet.cz> de Peter Koch <pk@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> dk Morten Christensen <morten@dk-hostmaster.dk> es Susana Gayo. CSIC-RedIRIS <susana.gayo@rediris.es> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@heanet.ie> il Shuki Kenan <shuki@netvision.net.il> is Marius Olafsson <marius@isgate.is> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> li Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> lt Daiva Tamulioniene <daiva@sc-uni.ktu.lt> mk Goran Muratovski <gone@MARNET.MK> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <armando@rccn.net> ro Eugenie Staicut <estaicut@linkguide.ici.ro> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Thu Nov 5 1998 This Count : Mon Dec 7 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad + 237 885 256 629 + 629 ae + 304 9609 233 9376 + 9376 al 9 148 6 142 + 4 am 132 1133 215 918 + 39 at 28812 230337 65534 164803 + 5220 az 51 376 27 349 - 43 ba 57 689 62 627 + 524 be 12233 229092 25432 203660 + 1276 bf + 7 205 7 198 + 198 bg 633 12828 1616 11212 + 438 bh + 28 1036 120 916 + 916 bj + 13 76 16 60 + 60 by 124 1250 201 1049 - 45 cf + 2 6 0 6 + 6 ch 46804 285652 53810 231842 + 748 ci + 106 673 50 623 + 623 cm + 8 163 1 162 + 162 cv + 8 17 1 16 + 16 cy 657 5310 188 5122 + 54 cz 18640 90849 12674 78175 0 de 184901 1883085 453547 1429538 + 24843 dj + 3 11 2 9 + 9 dk 63983 344227 50300 293927 + 4605 dz 13 33 2 31 + 14 ee 2329 24160 1682 22478 - 56 eg 764 2708 263 2445 - 4 er + 1 1 0 1 + 1 es 12251 312337 13607 298730 + 10691 fi 9769 475627 15213 460414 - 4919 fo 168 599 32 567 + 9 fr 29275 551755 61921 489834 + 11901 ga + 9 29 19 10 + 10 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 50 734 35 699 - 35 gg + 143 235 163 72 + 72 gh + 9 301 37 264 + 264 gi + 85 620 300 320 + 320 gl + 181 1943 104 1839 + 1839 gn + 2 6 0 6 + 6 gq + 5 11 6 5 + 5 gr 9478 53186 3731 49455 + 3772 gw + 9351 50859 3784 47075 + 47075 hr 1853 14354 2534 11820 + 167 hu 6668 100031 10201 89830 + 2132 ie 6553 61562 7007 54555 + 2446 il 7378 132207 24685 107522 - 601 im + 162 113 40 73 + 73 iq + 1 0 0 0 0 ir + 60 798 72 726 + 726 is 1622 26037 1209 24828 + 768 it 45238 427761 57519 370242 - 22962 je + 137 153 64 89 + 89 jo + 328 1019 370 649 + 649 ke + 295 1842 537 1305 + 1305 kg + 44 1630 109 1521 + 1521 kz + 327 2523 471 2052 + 2052 lb + 1120 4186 749 3437 + 3437 li 746 1859 721 1138 + 47 lr + 3 0 0 0 0 lt 1342 10379 765 9614 + 14 lu 1734 8643 1187 7456 + 528 lv 1034 16301 2614 13687 + 1319 ly + 2 1 0 1 + 1 ma 292 2492 466 2026 + 395 mc + 195 560 155 405 + 405 md 106 722 174 548 - 95 mk 294 1175 147 1028 + 83 ml + 15 194 8 186 + 186 mt 284 2217 363 1854 + 38 ne + 12 96 3 93 + 93 ng + 159 589 392 197 + 197 nl 52641 670924 58967 611957 + 17410 no 22590 337645 18017 319628 + 3529 om + 22 2893 9 2884 + 2884 pl 19570 162541 37224 125317 - 1125 pt 7154 62725 8676 54049 + 1221 qa + 25 614 4 610 + 610 ro 1749 24605 2248 22357 + 1616 ru 15597 210351 46562 163789 + 9887 sa + 97 533 53 480 + 480 sd + 1 4 2 2 + 2 se 30722 450302 32408 417894 + 13520 si 3358 25416 2694 22722 + 500 sj + 1 0 0 0 0 sk 5849 27338 5400 21938 + 190 sl + 6 70 0 70 + 70 sm 55 331 9 322 + 75 sn + 56 813 174 639 + 639 su 1299 31866 1818 30048 + 295 sy + 4 1 0 1 + 1 td + 6 8 4 4 + 4 tj + 136 1389 1180 209 + 209 tm + 1670 2959 1773 1186 + 1186 tn 1 46 33 13 + 2 tr 7240 50648 5046 45602 + 4435 ua 1922 30721 9456 21265 + 138 ug + 14 119 5 114 + 114 uk 138211 1693823 263356 1430467 - 5984 uz + 164 821 352 469 + 469 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye + 19 33 18 15 + 15 yu 1905 7713 827 6886 - 114 ============================================================== 54 806144 9098885 1362431 7736454 + 88910 48 + 15583 90647 11643 79004 + 79004 ============================================================== 102 821727 9189532 1374074 7815458 +167914 tg gm so kw st et: these TLDs were not included due to problems of one sort or another running the count (mostly related to zone transfers).