Dear all, Here is the hostcount for April 1997 - finally. The table shows an increase since last month of over 17,000 (or 4.2%) to a total of almost 4,400,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. DE shows the highest increase for April with almost 50,000 hosts more than in March. 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 intersted in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services is hosting 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 <winkler@cc.univie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons@CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Marcel Schneider <hostmaster@nic.ch> cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj@ics.forth.gr> 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> fi Petri Ojala <ojala@eunet.fi> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> hu Gabor Kiss <kissg@sztaki.hu> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@dalkey.hea.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Irek Neska <irek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Mar 31 1997 This Count : Wed Apr 30 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 0 am 20 267 7 260 + 46 at 6704 104860 13313 91547 -11486 az 4 73 1 72 + 21 ba 12 54 1 53 + 4 be 5017 89041 3967 85074 + 3990 bg 206 4632 190 4442 + 328 by 16 234 20 214 - 134 ch 11306 147083 11036 136047 - 5041 cy 208 1536 12 1524 - 82 cz 3054 50950 1946 49004 + 1776 de 41088 878405 57178 821227 +48655 dk 21295 136213 9444 126769 + 4528 dz 2 31 1 30 + 3 ee 704 10605 525 10080 + 89 eg 153 1879 44 1835 + 457 es 4459 156654 3824 152830 +17290 fi 4814 375131 6788 368343 +16588 fo 37 106 2 104 + 3 fr 8637 298605 13479 285126 +13866 gb 2 40 0 40 - 1 ge 16 259 2 257 - 6 gr 1072 23118 1078 22040 + 794 hr 675 6925 1030 5895 - 83 hu 1421 42750 3227 39523 + 6006 ie 2265 32523 1455 31068 + 497 il 2799 66326 6761 59565 + 1709 is 440 13232 184 13048 + 575 it 13051 247504 21831 225673 + 7266 li 133 394 112 282 + 12 lt 285 2326 140 2186 + 152 lu 478 4202 240 3962 + 76 lv 272 7076 404 6672 + 325 ma 25 533 20 513 - 52 md 19 166 18 148 + 49 mk 21 341 21 320 + 97 mt 102 886 118 768 + 229 nl 14646 315654 14535 301119 + 6601 no 8384 202894 9359 193535 +10112 pl 3451 69459 3668 65791 + 5841 pt 1502 29235 1229 28006 + 703 ro 563 10134 445 9689 + 198 ru 4321 72210 6552 65658 +15360 se 16071 295645 15199 280446 +13749 si 1054 17856 1400 16456 + 569 sk 1182 12151 1940 10211 + 36 sm 13 1115 517 598 + 41 su 765 21689 1050 20639 + 611 tn 4 61 7 54 + 3 tr 1991 25091 2322 22769 + 2266 ua 469 11734 2839 8895 + 1617 uk 51105 944538 126297 818241 +11880 va 2 8 0 8 0 yu 402 2894 121 2773 - 202 ============================================================ 236742 4737407 345899 4391508 +177931