Dear All, Please find below the hostcount for May 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 200,000 (or 3,3%) to a total of almost 6,700,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The UK domain shows the highest increase for May with approximately 23,000 hosts more than in April. 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 Shuki Kenan <shuki@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, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Wed May 6 1998 This Count : Wed Jun 3 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 10 140 6 134 - 4 am 105 885 127 758 + 92 at 19021 167918 34482 133436 + 2666 az 42 366 10 356 - 71 ba 33 502 18 484 + 33 be 9923 197815 17893 179922 + 1254 bg 535 9538 532 9006 + 508 by 91 968 158 810 - 69 ch 32507 248015 34803 213212 + 1945 cy 543 4846 111 4735 + 305 cz 12383 74803 8121 66682 + 3471 de 119882 1500011 243520 1256491 + 32612 dk 48248 224800 28839 195961 + 6743 dz 3 52 0 52 + 1 ee 1809 21207 1307 19900 + 618 eg 585 2953 186 2767 + 122 es 9987 250378 9700 240678 + 20848 fi 6775 445994 13270 432724 + 18268 fo 110 589 18 571 + 258 fr 22130 465776 37163 428613 - 153 gb 2 37 0 37 - 5 ge 41 620 35 585 + 51 gr 4126 38461 3175 35286 + 2032 hr 1481 8753 792 7961 - 1746 hu 4920 73770 5922 67848 - 14654 ie 5143 49967 4943 45024 - 51 il 5989 123676 18789 104887 + 4832 is 1164 21701 778 20923 + 327 it 33372 368154 45663 322491 + 14158 li 534 1746 559 1187 + 131 lt 833 6098 430 5668 + 634 lu 1217 7661 1016 6645 - 47 lv 662 10830 1642 9188 + 175 ma 147 1677 262 1415 - 96 md 47 410 84 326 + 29 mk 190 789 81 708 + 116 mt 226 1725 230 1495 + 120 nl 35547 545818 58649 487169 + 63652 no 18342 320724 14989 305735 - 2727 pl 13272 125569 17736 107833 + 10024 pt 5713 49099 4224 44875 + 1363 ro 1320 19248 1379 17869 + 1493 ru 11837 155494 20278 135216 - 455 se 27338 402854 25105 377749 + 8617 si 2621 23567 2403 21164 + 217 sk 4326 21886 3751 18135 + 248 sm 35 241 5 236 + 7 su 989 45006 1713 43293 - 132 tn 8 193 97 96 - 1 tr 5879 39090 4102 34988 - 4157 ua 1139 25318 7600 17718 + 94 uk 102594 1434846 219108 1215738 + 37605 va 2 5 0 5 0 yu 1328 6342 446 5896 + 382 ============================================================== 577106 7548931 896250 6652681 +211683