Dear All, below is the hostcount for August 2003. The table shows an decrease since last month of around 350,000 (or 1,7%) to a total of around 20,230,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The pt domain shows the highest increase for August with more than 81,000 hosts more than in July. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - - the February, 2003 data was used for dk due to their having a corrupted count this month. - the May, 2003 data was used for ru due to problems with the remote collection. - last month's data was used for be due to problems with the remote collection. - 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 DK Hostmaster es Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis 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, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Thu Aug 21 2003 This Count : Mon Sep 15 2003 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 180 3058 245 2813 3 ae 11214 79314 23378 55936 44 al 200 277 100 177 0 am 400 1136 400 736 296 at 100571 430151 148778 281373 -243048 az 1343 1772 1212 560 1 ba 1653 10060 3918 6142 0 be 91386 381863 166251 215612 0 bg 2228 49041 9608 39433 -598 bj 52 604 45 559 2 by 1382 7746 3331 4415 63 ch 197948 890378 358829 531549 -52 ci 634 4269 492 3777 -2 cm 97 606 141 465 3 cv 116 368 315 53 1 cy 1595 7215 1724 5491 699 cz 130898 466963 190071 276892 5904 de 3915396 14283388 11806109 2477279 5062 dj 957 2092 1487 605 18 dk 71854 1121201 318223 802978 0 dz 159 1213 374 839 5 ee 12746 79977 16868 63109 -643 eg 2446 5420 2205 3215 7 er 65 1183 143 1040 -64 es 39073 810496 72306 738190 -1878 fi 37076 1308216 79506 1228710 21666 fr 110013 2138345 505975 1632370 2120 ga 83 168 78 90 -2 gb 2 3 0 3 0 ge 1535 8094 4000 4094 1012 gg 2082 3812 2197 1615 9 gh 117 466 94 372 8 gi 177 721 143 578 0 gl 1450 4254 1311 2943 7 gm 571 1038 470 568 0 gn 58 528 157 371 -11 gq 3 8 5 3 0 gr 55862 315003 133337 181666 2371 gw 1 2 0 2 0 hr 8973 57756 28112 29644 0 hu 79486 492012 157762 334250 8928 ie 23799 195847 46848 148999 48 il 37323 550287 168485 381802 1421 im 583 1892 803 1089 1 ir 1277 6690 2574 4116 31 is 9354 1371903 1271446 100457 5354 it 473247 1218411 615182 603229 -262371 je 2163 3471 1758 1713 3 jo 1096 5631 2573 3058 22 ke 1 4 0 4 -2974 kg 789 15527 3132 12395 65 kz 3623 808709 789910 18799 156 lb 1461 9145 1987 7158 -245 li 5727 12422 8671 3751 50 lr 17 18 5 13 0 lt 12783 63331 11231 52100 401 lu 4001 7741 4387 3354 414 lv 8446 84856 47059 37797 396 ma 2599 8540 5106 3434 32 mc 701 1405 909 496 1 mk 2621 4746 1295 3451 12 mt 1664 10603 3039 7564 48 ng 404 2206 1150 1056 4 nl 735530 6463431 3099387 3364044 11708 no 120431 707654 146290 561364 -5585 pl 149852 1091245 336956 754289 6413 pt 17766 223020 31982 191038 81417 qa 107 616 395 221 0 ro 18938 79219 34290 44929 -23 ru 218544 1324411 907727 416684 0 sa 3878 16949 3870 13079 22 se 86013 1181602 263789 917813 -6298 si 12404 58911 19167 39744 23 sk 61671 245444 152443 93001 788 sl 7 279 2 277 0 sm 1092 3141 1501 1640 14 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 2493 358239 329950 28289 -209 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 74 22 10 12 0 tj 183 1060 751 309 0 tm 291 846 309 537 3 tn 37 455 208 247 -106 tr 30163 280332 52668 227664 5943 ua 52162 267904 187623 80281 1921 ug 842 3032 649 2383 18 uk 1915122 7064593 3917972 3146621 10382 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 175 305 171 134 1 yu 16081 39127 19688 19439 223 ============================================================== 90 8919624 46765473 26535058 20230415 -348545