Dear All, below is the hostcount for July 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 180,000 (or 2.8% ) to a total of almost 7,000,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The uk domain shows the highest increase for July with approximately 90,000 hosts more than in June. - 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 of 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 - Credits - 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> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@heanet.ie> il Shuki Kenan <shuki@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> 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 : Sat Jul 4 1998 This Count : Thu Aug 6 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 10 142 8 134 - 4 am 124 942 159 783 - 35 at 22400 190039 37705 152334 + 17319 az 49 408 18 390 + 3 ba 32 505 35 470 + 31 be 9964 199140 18244 180896 - 1734 bg 516 9186 818 8368 - 707 by 97 931 174 757 - 203 ch 37019 258868 42527 216341 - 4041 cy 602 5090 121 4969 + 129 cz 14585 80846 9717 71129 + 1016 de 140173 1588736 280030 1308706 + 21065 dk 52219 234698 34265 200433 + 1051 dz 5 52 1 51 + 42 ee 1844 21255 1192 20063 - 531 eg 622 2003 182 1821 - 1042 es 10877 273325 15310 258015 + 9656 fi 7228 452609 13879 438730 + 2490 fo 120 555 24 531 0 fr 24879 480310 33157 447153 + 11367 gb 2 27 0 27 + 1 ge 42 635 37 598 + 2 gr 5004 43867 3607 40260 + 2290 hr 1061 7649 1485 6164 - 4017 hu 5682 93953 8616 85337 - 3964 ie 5729 53455 4639 48816 + 2565 il 4289 114315 18215 96100 - 11548 is 1281 22502 782 21720 - 54 it 38097 407734 49815 357919 + 25565 li 601 1880 634 1246 + 57 lt 958 8487 518 7969 + 567 lu 1360 7798 1079 6719 - 75 lv 751 11512 1942 9570 - 52 ma 208 2082 337 1745 + 143 md 56 511 92 419 + 32 mk 221 784 96 688 - 93 mt 239 1703 248 1455 + 29 nl 39194 598147 65012 533135 + 45139 no 19624 317981 15461 302520 + 2658 pl 15348 132030 21577 110453 + 826 pt 6368 57216 7371 49845 + 2032 ro 1463 21617 2024 19593 + 1081 ru 12766 159943 26421 133522 - 8042 se 28389 392773 25331 367442 - 12391 si 2836 23957 2538 21419 + 1145 sk 4935 22851 4208 18643 + 301 sm 42 232 2 230 - 12 su 1040 44123 1715 42408 - 1815 tn 14 212 104 108 + 5 tr 6466 42421 4708 37713 + 386 ua 1361 26661 8016 18645 - 746 uk 112961 1538513 216635 1321878 + 89140 va 2 7 0 7 + 2 yu 1508 7186 578 6608 + 81 ============================================================== 643263 7964404 981409 6982995 +187110