Dear All, below is the hostcount for May 2001. The table shows an increase since last month of over 400,000 (or 2.9%) to a total of almost 14,265,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The pt domain shows the highest increase for May with approximately 100,000 hosts more than in April. 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 AXFR problems with co.uk until recently and disk problems this month. - the April, 2001 data had to be reused for all of the following TLDs due to a large number of disk and other problems: ci, eg, es, fr, gr, hr, hu, il, it, kg, nl, no, ro, se, sm, tr We expect to be able to do a more complete count for June. - 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 il Netvision NOC 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 : Fri May 25 2001 This Count : Tue Jun 26 2001 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 583 2464 816 1648 2 ae 3062 42566 2709 39857 1084 al 85 205 32 173 9 am 1218 2886 1277 1609 -45 at 146066 765008 224536 540472 8462 az 740 1760 457 1303 16 ba 441 4168 1051 3117 249 be 53866 407419 69472 337947 5136 bg 1449 27460 3494 23966 1846 bh 60 2148 535 1613 1425 by 423 3585 831 2754 171 ch 178488 531273 268675 262598 11969 ci 360 3452 463 2989 0 cm 53 387 40 347 7 cv 22 137 110 27 2 cy 785 8089 667 7422 7 cz 99162 280601 103818 176783 4162 de 2639019 10239509 7841229 2398280 18671 dk 205854 730238 284785 445453 86109 ee 7332 60900 16279 44621 960 eg 1533 3392 1036 2356 0 er 40 261 23 238 0 es 29043 503247 53085 450162 0 fi 29214 841330 64935 776395 42316 fr 95219 1333420 172464 1160956 0 ga 37 70 23 47 3 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 570 3287 1361 1926 74 gg 1693 2490 1056 1434 5 gh 35 504 40 464 1 gi 611 1382 169 1213 4 gl 881 3019 490 2529 12 gn 17 342 135 207 4 gr 22611 164342 23495 140847 0 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 4712 33474 13784 19690 0 hu 35441 194768 65238 129530 0 ie 17953 147733 24886 122847 641 il 20699 166966 58372 108594 0 ir 304 3247 669 2578 115 is 6611 74958 28347 46611 204 it 426759 1447764 574379 873385 0 je 1738 2650 1150 1500 13 jo 610 2705 916 1789 917 ke 1305 6022 900 5122 309 kg 1247 5741 1939 3802 0 kz 2400 11101 2568 8533 188 lb 1274 8058 1490 6568 19 li 5870 10786 7495 3291 2286 lr 13 11 2 9 3 lt 7404 35884 6793 29091 1132 lu 5236 16529 4643 11886 -411 lv 6073 33023 9787 23236 1997 ma 1671 4680 2629 2051 58 mc 401 955 518 437 -1 mk 731 2200 529 1671 1 mt 1032 8640 1714 6926 13 ng 285 2750 1410 1340 3 nl 464430 2794357 908857 1885500 0 no 60646 529656 67240 462416 0 om 107 5903 2983 2920 -1 pl 84884 721305 205232 516073 84642 pt 15761 275777 30668 245109 99115 qa 37 331 231 100 -2165 ro 9753 59786 14855 44931 0 ru 101108 565240 229118 336122 17437 sa 2197 13643 2398 11245 1694 se 64010 643840 64848 578992 0 si 7653 35489 7404 28085 478 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 31030 88083 34757 53326 10921 sl 7 278 0 278 0 sm 333 1593 285 1308 0 su 1049 27953 2954 24999 217 sy 4 18 9 9 0 tj 120 980 688 292 6 tm 1270 2979 1399 1580 -77 tn 28 335 152 183 6 tr 13442 108598 18885 89713 0 ua 28460 132258 86669 45589 1779 ug 221 425 180 245 7 uk 478844 2502998 825052 1677946 0 va 2 9 0 9 0 yu 8795 21616 6547 15069 516 ============================================================== 84 5444537 26725481 12461158 14264323 +404723