Dear All, below is the hostcount for March 2002. The table shows an increase since last month of over 550,000 (or 3,4%) to a total of almost 16,830,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The fr domain shows the highest increase for March with approximately 547,000 hosts more than in February. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - Data for es, pt, om, ne and ir was reused because no full new collection could be done due to AXFR blocks and/or unreachable nameservers. - 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 Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric 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, Paul Vlaar RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Mar 26 2002 This Count : Sun Apr 28 2002 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 594 4110 919 3191 4 ae 4015 6244 4392 1852 -74698 al 118 259 63 196 3 am 1508 4187 1691 2496 134 at 156485 568451 226755 341696 3176 az 1511 2386 1057 1329 9 ba 924 5504 2191 3313 14 be 73712 460019 99688 360331 -2530 bg 1768 33284 4940 28344 887 bh 61 2280 561 1719 0 bj 33 584 22 562 2 by 825 5049 1674 3375 31 ch 196619 870734 345815 524919 -4961 ci 509 3746 535 3211 0 cm 67 479 72 407 3 cv 37 174 138 36 0 cy 548 2460 455 2005 17 cz 119072 377159 148772 228387 2465 de 3278618 12429859 9938524 2491335 11005 dj 325 335 241 94 79 dk 235763 973498 339002 634496 69588 dz 125 863 140 723 5 ee 9537 75580 21111 54469 -100 eg 367 2084 284 1800 -2 er 60 829 13 816 563 es 22697 1103728 42443 1061285 0 fi 32878 1006928 75281 931647 11390 fr 96554 1688131 434269 1253862 371047 ga 52 96 27 69 0 gb 2 24 0 24 0 ge 981 4626 2489 2137 16 gg 2016 3148 1557 1591 14 gh 61 271 32 239 3 gi 738 1514 234 1280 8 gl 1090 3248 633 2615 8 gm 544 466 334 132 2 gn 41 397 151 246 1 gq 5 8 2 6 0 gr 39221 192956 42414 150542 1562 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 7308 48430 23351 25079 -7204 hu 52593 271762 100299 171463 989 ie 21053 160635 30887 129748 -730 il 28543 281100 139997 141103 261 im 595 1415 674 741 5 ir 407 3268 802 2466 0 is 7773 96716 41529 55187 1519 it 480919 1319433 621944 697489 -118730 je 2107 3182 1566 1616 10 jo 766 5482 1605 3877 24 ke 1823 3593 775 2818 33 kg 11182 18178 12001 6177 59 kz 3040 15140 3609 11531 88 lb 1359 9261 1846 7415 24 li 6986 14718 11198 3520 -27 lr 14 13 3 10 0 lt 9000 39353 9010 30343 -7354 lu 5533 19319 5075 14244 76 lv 7500 71948 41203 30745 3584 ma 2208 6026 3667 2359 17 mc 549 1155 690 465 5 mk 259 871 149 722 0 mt 1423 11219 2335 8884 116 ne 25 185 9 176 0 ng 301 2087 1117 970 -1 nl 561696 3794530 1307710 2486820 27517 no 71732 385575 93066 292509 -13425 om 129 7203 2525 4678 0 pl 113006 683340 199332 484008 199529 pt 18416 255404 40501 214903 0 qa 56 383 252 131 3 ro 12333 74123 26101 48022 2026 ru 139608 1143894 775249 368645 11377 sa 2773 14758 2989 11769 231 se 76155 867018 92240 774778 4721 si 9466 44410 11785 32625 2214 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 45939 208662 129804 78858 3817 sl 7 282 2 280 2 sm 619 2427 688 1739 20 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1236 355001 326994 28007 232 sy 4 15 4 11 2 td 48 17 8 9 1 tj 121 983 689 294 -4 tm 1294 3013 1388 1625 1 tn 32 450 219 231 3 tr 20451 152536 34545 117991 9006 ua 46469 201549 137297 64252 1471 ug 650 811 540 271 -29 uk 1634978 5747925 3397477 2350448 47271 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 138 243 144 99 1 yu 11568 26114 9849 16265 371 ============================================================== 94 7702277 36210893 19385667 16825226 558867