Dear All, below is the hostcount for April 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of nearly 120,000 (or 1.9%) to a total of almost 6,450,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The it domain shows the highest increase for April with approximately 31000 hosts more than in March. - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The main reason for Italy having the largest increase was a problem in last month's count: an important nameserver was not answering queries. Similarly, Greece's increase in comparison to an almost equal drop the previous time. Last months drop was discovered to be due to a file mixup when gathering the data which is not generated by the RIPE NCC. Finally, a drop for Germany is certainly not expected. This is due to three second-level domains being skipped, due to nameserver problems. de is such a large domain that a repeat count was not possible in the time available. - Other Ways to Obtain the Hostcount - 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 If you are interested in the historic hostcount data, bunyip Information Services has hosted the complete set of data since 1994 under ftp://ftp.bunyip.com/pub/netstats/ripe - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts locally: at Gerhard Winkler <Gerhard.Winkler@univie.ac.at> be DNS-BE Registration Office <tech@dns.de> ch Marcel Schneider <schneider@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> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> ie Mike Norris <mnorris@heanet.ie> il Sason Levi <sason@NetVision.net.il> it Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> li Marcel Schneider <schneider@switch.ch> no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> pl Mirek Luc <mirek@nask.pl> pt Armando Domingues <armando@rccn.net> ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr@ripn.net> sk Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias@uakom.sk> sm Maurizio Martinelli <M.Martinelli@cnuce.cnr.it> Daniele Vannozzi <D.Vannozzi@cnuce.cnr.it> tr Yener Yigit <yener@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr> uk Robert Stone <robert@nosc.ja.net> Kevin Hoadley <K.Hoadley@nosc.ja.net> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Mon Apr 6 1998 This Count : Wed May 6 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 9 141 3 138 0 am 84 803 137 666 + 38 at 17532 163764 32994 130770 + 73 az 31 443 16 427 + 21 ba 34 468 17 451 + 23 be 9384 195266 16598 178668 + 3556 bg 521 9078 580 8498 + 607 by 83 1027 148 879 + 96 ch 31108 244090 32823 211267 + 9820 cy 516 4530 100 4430 + 115 cz 11218 70228 7017 63211 + 2460 de 110730 1446017 222138 1223879 - 12046 dk 46776 216861 27643 189218 + 982 dz 3 51 0 51 + 2 ee 1684 20518 1236 19282 + 796 eg 527 2811 166 2645 - 134 es 9449 228650 8820 219830 + 7859 fi 6749 427671 13215 414456 - 6020 fo 109 325 12 313 + 5 fr 20574 465653 36887 428766 + 10849 gb 2 42 0 42 0 ge 36 565 31 534 + 29 gr 3669 34885 1631 33254 + 8256 hr 1428 11335 1628 9707 + 729 hu 4821 90303 7801 82502 + 6722 ie 4881 49803 4728 45075 + 2214 il 5757 113593 13538 100055 + 1928 is 1083 21247 651 20596 + 360 it 31729 349064 40731 308333 + 31423 li 501 1579 523 1056 + 33 lt 750 5404 370 5034 + 765 lu 1150 7587 895 6692 + 1370 lv 631 10662 1649 9013 + 694 ma 138 1679 168 1511 + 87 md 36 364 67 297 + 16 mk 126 618 26 592 + 63 mt 196 1584 209 1375 + 37 nl 33531 480749 57232 423517 - 7539 no 17630 322525 14063 308462 - 353 pl 12134 112889 15080 97809 - 5132 pt 5557 47377 3865 43512 - 254 ro 1225 17772 1396 16376 + 1061 ru 11534 154969 19298 135671 + 12527 se 26642 392685 23553 369132 + 12959 si 2480 23354 2407 20947 + 418 sk 3720 21306 3419 17887 + 2517 sm 35 236 7 229 + 8 su 993 45127 1702 43425 + 1312 tn 8 187 90 97 + 2 tr 5391 43501 4356 39145 + 759 ua 1073 24694 7070 17624 + 750 uk 97113 1414255 236122 1178133 + 26445 va 2 5 0 5 - 6 yu 1218 5983 469 5514 + 461 ============================================================== 544341 7306323 865325 6440998 +119763