Dear All, below is the hostcount for August 1998. The table shows an increase since last month of over 260,000 (or 3.8%) to a total of approximately 7.25 million hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The dk domain shows the highest increase for August with approximately 75,000 hosts more than in July. - Annotations to this Hostcount - cz shows a zero increase. We were not able to arrange the transfer of the data in time. The numbers for cz are therefore identical to last month. Apologies for this. - 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 Morten Christensen <morten@dk-hostmaster.dk> es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez@rediris.es> fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard@inria.fr> gr Dimitris Zisiadis <zisiadis@forthnet.gr> hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric@stribor.srce.hr> 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, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Thu Aug 6 1998 This Count : Sat Sep 5 1998 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== al 10 143 8 135 + 1 am 121 983 159 824 + 41 at 23776 193628 38842 154786 + 2452 az 52 394 20 374 - 16 ba 45 595 46 549 + 79 be 10379 203469 19575 183894 + 2998 bg 581 11311 1248 10063 + 1695 by 103 1024 176 848 + 91 ch 39362 258935 43919 215016 - 1325 cy 618 5164 145 5019 + 50 cz 14585 80846 9717 71129 0 de 151458 1664677 301737 1362940 + 54234 dk 54351 308199 33475 274724 + 74291 dz 6 21 1 20 - 31 ee 1920 22272 1382 20890 + 827 eg 650 2936 195 2741 + 920 es 11037 270986 11636 259350 + 1335 fi 7831 463400 14695 448705 + 9975 fo 119 555 21 534 + 3 fr 25938 488798 34702 454096 + 6943 gb 2 26 0 26 - 1 ge 47 718 37 681 + 83 gr 5354 44363 3549 40814 + 554 hr 1587 12288 2017 10271 + 4107 hu 5882 96091 9059 87032 + 1695 ie 5934 52725 4684 48041 - 775 il 6808 124160 21697 102463 + 6363 is 1350 23315 789 22526 + 806 it 39387 447151 49427 397724 + 39805 li 644 1646 610 1036 - 210 lt 1027 8791 549 8242 + 273 lu 1330 7858 1121 6737 + 18 lv 839 13269 2183 11086 + 1516 ma 221 2106 339 1767 + 22 md 59 631 114 517 + 98 mk 236 1014 105 909 + 221 mt 246 1972 257 1715 + 260 nl 41170 569007 50043 518964 - 14171 no 20289 325563 15630 309933 + 7413 pl 16682 144813 27745 117068 + 6615 pt 6667 58104 7727 50377 + 532 ro 1534 21856 2011 19845 + 252 ru 14363 180824 32610 148214 + 14692 se 28630 421929 25685 396244 + 28802 si 2817 23327 2436 20891 - 528 sk 5200 24247 4409 19838 + 1195 sm 45 237 2 235 + 5 su 1285 28143 1746 26397 - 16011 tn 13 183 103 80 - 28 tr 6793 43742 5073 38669 + 956 ua 1486 28533 8290 20243 + 1598 uk 116240 1573225 224772 1348453 + 26575 va 2 8 0 8 + 1 yu 1619 7655 604 7051 + 443 ============================================================== 678730 8267856 1017122 7250734 +267739