Dear all, Here is the hostcount for January 1996. The table shows an increase since last month of more than 78,000 (or 3.6%) to almost 2,400,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe. The UK shows the highest increase for January with almost 20,000 hosts more than last month. The hosts for PL and for HU are now also counted locally. Please find more details below in the list of "local counters". 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 I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Wilfried Woeber <Wilfried.Woeber@CC.UniVie.ac.at> be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons@CS.kuleuven.ac.be> ch Christoph Graf <graf@chx400.switch.ch> 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 Benoit Grange <grange@sagres.inria.fr> gr Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj@ics.forth.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 Graca Carvalho <fccn@dns.pt> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@argo.net.kiae.su> sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak@Slovakia.EU.net> Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@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 : Fri Dec 29 1995 This Count : Wed Jan 31 1996 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 5 36 0 36 + 1 am 6 179 6 173 0 at 1349 62950 2630 60320 + 6976 az 3 16 0 16 0 be 1321 33143 1223 31920 + 1299 bg 67 1145 44 1101 + 46 by 7 35 1 34 + 17 ch 1404 89106 1888 87218 + 7084 cy 47 369 10 359 - 31 cz 442 23760 398 23362 + 1506 de 6623 485533 18509 467024 - 7351 dk 922 53614 1078 52536 + 1979 dz 2 16 0 16 0 ee 168 4164 72 4092 + 514 eg 13 623 12 611 + 50 es 1301 57498 894 56604 + 5148 fi 1499 234461 3988 230473 +14769 fo 17 528 0 528 + 1 fr 2490 148613 2783 145830 - 5343 gb 1 39 0 39 + 3 ge 10 61 0 61 + 4 gr 398 9755 644 9111 + 1370 hr 155 3278 580 2698 + 237 hu 388 17787 331 17456 + 1664 ie 108 13819 131 13688 + 253 il 694 31851 2200 29651 + 2038 is 150 8840 83 8757 + 447 it 2877 83810 5555 78255 + 2879 li 17 60 8 52 - 16 lt 47 606 4 602 + 144 lu 100 2062 40 2022 + 142 lv 61 2061 38 2023 + 702 ma 2 238 0 238 + 9 md 6 2 0 2 + 2 mk 6 39 2 37 - 53 mt 13 129 14 115 + 29 nl 1880 180641 3591 177050 + 5285 no 1835 87543 3249 84294 0 pl 834 28483 2170 26313 + 3229 pt 411 13942 1244 12698 + 922 ro 145 1854 51 1803 + 64 ru 528 13175 940 12235 + 814 se 3191 159376 5802 153574 + 8730 si 226 6449 243 6206 + 591 sk 133 3188 45 3143 + 152 su 465 12528 541 11987 + 1468 tn 3 88 5 83 + 4 tr 185 7018 103 6915 + 1366 ua 173 3000 540 2460 + 51 uk 10286 500215 41288 458927 +19195 va 1 2 0 2 0 yu 3 0 0 0 0 ============================================================ 43018 2387728 102978 2284750 +78390