Dear All, below is the hostcount for March 2001. The table shows an increase since last month of over 470,000 (or 3,6%) to a total of almost 13,700,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The ru domain shows the highest increase for March with approximately 175,000 hosts more than in February. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - the January, 2000 data had to be reused for uk due to problems with co.uk. since that time. - the February, 2001 data had to be reused for tr, il, es, ch, li and fr due to an assortment of operational problems. - no new data could be collected for ci due to problems with transfer of the top-level zone. - 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 ES NIC fr Annie Renard 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 uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Mar 12 2001 This Count : Tue Apr 24 2001 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 546 2398 755 1643 20 ae 2699 42524 2144 40380 79 al 82 193 30 163 3 am 1090 3733 1334 2399 -251 at 138085 756331 220366 535965 12646 az 681 1697 413 1284 -239 ba 364 3645 851 2794 121 be 46687 388790 60277 328513 13154 bg 1358 24720 3195 21525 1222 bh 22 125 69 56 1 by 345 2938 606 2332 -433 ch 170681 509332 246841 262491 0 ci 360 3452 463 2989 0 cm 48 365 32 333 8 cv 20 130 105 25 0 cy 833 8242 847 7395 27 cz 91890 263874 93296 170578 9289 de 2458398 9654943 7281986 2372957 136714 dk 186729 614875 236456 378419 44441 ee 6844 59232 15509 43723 2723 eg 1533 3392 1036 2356 112 er 31 227 22 205 5 es 29043 503247 53085 450162 0 fi 27792 792961 60248 732713 33527 fr 95219 1333420 172464 1160956 0 ga 31 57 13 44 5 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 503 2904 1075 1829 83 gg 1483 2330 915 1415 -239 gh 33 500 39 461 103 gi 547 1340 154 1186 -255 gl 816 2939 442 2497 -5 gn 15 337 135 202 1 gr 20830 162718 22149 140569 7029 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 4482 32103 12886 19217 1201 hu 34033 190555 61734 128821 13079 ie 17397 145732 22604 123128 1643 il 19496 130980 40337 90643 0 ir 255 2908 531 2377 315 is 6171 72139 26076 46063 6839 it 426759 1447764 574379 873385 -75625 je 1507 2427 957 1470 -239 jo 575 1540 692 848 21 ke 1187 5606 800 4806 10 kg 1215 6275 1875 4400 120 kz 2164 10564 2279 8285 387 lb 1191 5419 1134 4285 720 li 4621 8880 5062 3818 0 lr 11 0 0 0 0 lt 6800 33711 6083 27628 996 lu 4966 16965 4161 12804 1253 lv 5573 29121 7961 21160 394 ma 1483 4413 2420 1993 95 mc 389 946 508 438 4 mk 646 2084 483 1601 186 mt 975 8261 1710 6551 6535 ng 284 2491 1407 1084 259 nl 464845 2790434 901190 1889244 78981 no 57308 529571 63999 465572 13437 om 100 5895 2974 2921 5 pl 78933 565639 183194 382445 14795 pt 8588 129586 16157 113429 -43426 qa 20 2253 31 2222 0 ro 9753 59786 14855 44931 3558 ru 49447 338644 117432 221212 174301 sa 2047 11739 2263 9476 1957 se 63024 636717 64252 572465 10531 si 6869 29767 6698 23069 -3128 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 27706 71155 29166 41989 1127 sl 7 214 0 214 -1 sm 309 1546 243 1303 7 su 1013 28035 2850 25185 350 sy 3 18 9 9 0 tj 119 977 689 288 14 tm 1262 3087 1443 1644 447 tn 28 317 140 177 2 tr 13442 108598 18885 89713 0 ua 23459 117258 75598 41660 2350 ug 204 395 149 246 13 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 7790 20154 5746 14408 591 ============================================================== 84 5122945 25263632 11586447 13677185 +473995