Dear all, Here is the first hostcount for 1997! The table shows an increase since last month of almost 250,000 (or 6.7%) to a total of over 3,900,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. DE shows the highest increase in January with more than 50,000 hosts more than in December. There were apparently many private addresses registered in the DNS recently. I expect this will be balanced again in the next months. Furthermore I'm afraid this is not a country specific problem :-( In some countries (for instance in Denmark) the rules for registering domain names have been changed. This caused a significant increase in second level domains where the growth in number of hosts was stable. 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 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 : Tue Dec 31 1996 This Count : Fri Jan 31 1997 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 79 0 79 0 am 13 186 6 180 + 4 at 4413 107903 9068 98835 +10024 az 6 56 1 55 + 25 ba 2 0 0 0 - 36 be 3980 70007 3056 66951 + 1887 bg 164 3894 156 3738 + 420 by 13 250 7 243 - 13 ch 7844 142975 8430 134545 + 1620 cy 180 1572 19 1553 + 97 cz 1931 43273 1547 41726 + 880 de 28872 789022 45819 743203 +51339 dk 11151 117017 5700 111317 + 4585 dz 2 27 0 27 - 1 ee 577 9436 300 9136 + 1156 eg 122 2075 132 1943 - 33 es 3763 121300 2491 118809 + 5582 fi 3999 333234 5545 327689 +13548 fo 26 96 0 96 0 fr 6675 263726 11394 252332 +15458 gb 2 40 0 40 + 1 ge 14 220 1 219 + 7 gr 735 17048 780 16268 - 470 hr 514 6259 820 5439 + 806 hu 1080 32323 1691 30632 + 792 ie 1580 28720 1125 27595 + 700 il 2194 58840 5774 53066 + 3828 is 347 12096 137 11959 + 417 it 8997 206717 14057 192660 +44787 li 99 300 88 212 + 2 lt 234 1941 123 1818 + 88 lu 364 3694 230 3464 - 54 lv 202 6213 253 5960 + 180 ma 33 536 64 472 + 4 md 13 118 13 105 + 9 mk 29 325 23 302 + 109 mt 71 589 87 502 + 9 nl 10962 286739 10034 276705 + 6194 no 6494 185105 7282 177823 +27693 pl 2397 56984 2891 54093 + 1241 pt 1012 24709 875 23834 + 352 ro 487 9124 330 8794 + 979 ru 2409 48428 3628 44800 + 3455 se 12243 259883 13528 246355 + 8523 si 762 15958 1200 14758 + 951 sk 636 8911 615 8296 + 358 sm 12 877 405 472 + 45 su 638 19376 925 18451 + 1705 tn 4 48 5 43 + 2 tr 1057 11462 891 10571 - 6936 ua 313 8509 1599 6910 + 333 uk 40772 860207 95877 764330 +45036 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 290 2682 146 2536 + 1 ============================================================ 170736 4181114 259168 3921946 +247689