Dear All, here is the hostcount for March 1998. I apologise for the delay caused by technical problems experienced by some of the larger TLD's. The table shows an increase since last month of over 200,000 (or 3.4%) to a total of approximately 6,320,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. de shows the highest increase for March with more than 70,000 hosts more than in February. 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 interested in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services has hosted 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 <Gerhard.Winkler@univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.de> ch Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> 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> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@heanet.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> li Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <armando@rccn.net> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> 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 : Fri Feb 27 1998 This Count : Mon Apr 6 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 11 142 4 138 + 13 am 76 746 118 628 + 81 at 16275 160959 30262 130697 + 3726 az 27 419 13 406 - 16 ba 26 446 18 428 + 44 be 8988 191131 16019 175112 + 2063 bg 460 8350 459 7891 + 313 by 71 868 85 783 + 189 ch 28633 230796 29349 201447 + 2813 cy 491 4414 99 4315 + 85 cz 10208 66689 5938 60751 + 692 de 103355 1446033 210108 1235925 + 73441 dk 43820 213378 25142 188236 + 8497 dz 2 49 0 49 + 4 ee 1547 19564 1078 18486 + 411 eg 487 2932 153 2779 + 120 es 8855 218902 6931 211971 + 9111 fi 6813 431801 11325 420476 + 7835 fo 100 318 10 308 + 5 fr 19563 455927 38010 417917 + 18153 gb 2 42 0 42 0 ge 34 537 32 505 + 59 gr 2196 27094 2096 24998 - 7552 hr 1338 10468 1490 8978 - 259 hu 4240 83152 7372 75780 + 2473 ie 4621 48031 5170 42861 + 881 il 5423 109648 11521 98127 + 2976 is 1052 20840 604 20236 + 480 it 29399 315817 38907 276910 + 8599 li 458 1497 474 1023 + 58 lt 622 4601 332 4269 - 25 lu 1073 6295 973 5322 + 321 lv 584 9849 1530 8319 + 312 ma 123 1586 162 1424 + 100 md 37 339 58 281 + 21 mk 47 573 44 529 + 32 mt 182 1543 205 1338 + 302 nl 31439 477158 46102 431056 + 21580 no 16843 322675 13860 308815 + 3711 pl 11269 117164 14223 102941 + 4928 pt 5409 47486 3720 43766 + 630 ro 1224 16578 1263 15315 + 995 ru 10484 140467 17323 123144 + 1568 se 25586 378449 22276 356173 + 3526 si 2272 22867 2338 20529 + 751 sk 3289 18476 3106 15370 - 391 sm 31 230 9 221 + 1 su 945 43722 1609 42113 - 138 tn 8 183 88 95 + 2 tr 5016 42566 4180 38386 + 849 ua 995 22944 6070 16874 + 799 uk 94763 1354805 203117 1151688 + 34332 va 2 11 0 11 0 yu 1115 5519 466 5053 - 382 ============================================================== 511929 7107076 785841 6321235 +209119