Dear All, below is the hostcount for February 2002. The table shows a decrease since last month of over 148,000 (or 0,9%) to a total of almost 16,270,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The fi domain shows the highest increase for February with approximately 22,000 hosts more than in January. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - Data for ir, om, ne, and ae was reused because no full new collection could be done due to AXFR blocks and/or unreachable nameservers. bf and cf have been ommitted from the count as we have been unable to retrieve data for them for a couple of months now. - 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 Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr 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 If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Paul Vlaar RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Feb 25 2002 This Count : Tue Mar 26 2002 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 579 4088 901 3187 3 ae 4198 82337 5787 76550 0 al 117 253 60 193 6 am 1479 3971 1609 2362 63 at 157114 558812 220292 338520 7829 az 1499 2377 1057 1320 5 ba 885 5425 2126 3299 32 be 73316 461079 98218 362861 -28301 bg 1729 32351 4894 27457 306 bh 61 2280 561 1719 0 bj 33 579 19 560 34 by 784 4835 1491 3344 15 ch 203149 884920 355040 529880 -4022 ci 509 3746 535 3211 0 cm 65 473 69 404 12 cv 36 169 133 36 1 cy 511 2431 443 1988 28 cz 123020 379095 153173 225922 8725 de 3224114 12191108 9710778 2480330 -7335 dj 130 144 129 15 2 dk 254249 942846 377938 564908 21420 dz 124 854 136 718 6 ee 9362 75583 21014 54569 1286 eg 363 2014 212 1802 -1051 er 61 275 22 253 -1 es 22697 1103728 42443 1061285 -26626 fi 32612 995629 75372 920257 22394 fr 93507 1141308 258493 882815 -13985 ga 49 95 26 69 -1 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 945 4489 2368 2121 23 gg 1996 3050 1473 1577 15 gh 60 265 29 236 2 gi 727 1507 235 1272 85 gl 1079 3232 625 2607 19 gm 543 468 338 130 3 gn 40 393 148 245 1 gq 5 8 2 6 0 gr 38221 190727 41747 148980 1677 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 8162 51447 19164 32283 -1853 hu 51270 269376 98902 170474 1055 ie 21054 160560 30082 130478 3254 il 28571 280781 139939 140842 625 im 591 1410 674 736 0 ir 407 3268 802 2466 0 is 7690 93146 39478 53668 -1201 it 493215 1492581 676362 816219 6050 je 2088 3131 1525 1606 22 jo 755 5421 1568 3853 1140 ke 1749 3536 751 2785 14 kg 10577 17504 11386 6118 918 kz 2979 14968 3525 11443 276 lb 1341 9202 1811 7391 33 li 7024 14607 11060 3547 99 lr 14 13 3 10 0 lt 8746 46439 8742 37697 3666 lu 5503 19253 5085 14168 664 lv 7352 67533 40372 27161 2067 ma 2176 5977 3635 2342 14 mc 539 1137 677 460 3 mk 259 871 149 722 -1929 mt 1385 11051 2283 8768 21 ne 25 185 9 176 0 ng 286 2124 1153 971 2 nl 551426 3742790 1283487 2459303 6798 no 72185 399813 93879 305934 -2019 om 129 7203 2525 4678 0 pl 94777 456086 171607 284479 -173866 pt 18416 255404 40501 214903 -2157 qa 53 377 249 128 -6 ro 11049 71435 25439 45996 -1446 ru 137172 793946 436678 357268 11137 sa 2565 14384 2846 11538 59 se 75236 856596 86539 770057 7653 si 9294 41787 11376 30411 748 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 44786 198856 123815 75041 1227 sl 7 282 4 278 0 sm 567 2346 627 1719 37 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1224 354775 327000 27775 380 sy 4 18 9 9 0 td 37 16 8 8 1 tj 121 983 685 298 -4 tm 1292 3009 1385 1624 -2 tn 32 437 209 228 7 tr 19317 140374 31389 108985 281 ua 45377 197124 134343 62781 474 ug 623 838 538 300 8 uk 1587715 5532964 3229787 2303177 6029 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 134 235 137 98 -2 yu 11245 25298 9404 15894 163 ============================================================== 94 7598517 34759905 18493546 16266359 -148345