Dear All, below is the hostcount for March 1999. The table shows an increase since last month of over 215,000 (or 2.7%) to a total of almost 8,430,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The be domain shows the highest increase for March with approximately 72,000 hosts more than in February. Background information to the hostcount and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - A problem with the data collection for uk meant that we had to use the same data as last month for that TLD. New this month is a beta version of new statistics generated from the hostcount data, (link from the URL given above). These show, for example, that almost all of the new hosts in be came within the 34 zones with 1000+ hosts. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by collecting data locally: ad Joan Marc Lauga at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen es Susana Gayo fr Annie Renard gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris il Shuki Kenan is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene mk Goran Muratovski mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Armando Domingues ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr Yener Yigit uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Fri Mar 5 1999 This Count : Wed Apr 7 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 279 988 381 607 + 1 ae 374 18208 505 17703 - 547 al 13 130 13 117 - 44 am 149 1253 176 1077 + 245 at 34260 242882 67543 175339 + 5457 az 83 434 42 392 + 29 ba 89 887 87 800 + 33 be 15514 332407 33093 299314 + 71759 bf 10 372 76 296 + 10 bg 749 14801 1271 13530 + 565 bh 29 1536 126 1410 + 4 bj 12 89 13 76 - 3 by 160 1315 266 1049 + 30 cf 2 8 0 8 0 ch 57438 330595 72433 258162 - 3013 ci 114 694 70 624 - 8 cm 7 168 3 165 + 1 cv 10 33 16 17 + 1 cy 568 4788 152 4636 - 90 cz 27493 110819 18231 92588 + 4827 de 287855 2253602 718466 1535136 + 15722 dj 3 11 2 9 0 dk 74273 381763 69691 312072 + 1675 dz 22 137 14 123 + 42 ee 2814 27739 2034 25705 + 545 eg 959 2836 343 2493 - 65 er 1 0 0 0 0 es 13583 334566 17687 316879 + 15717 fi 11056 484026 16819 467207 - 747 fo 208 909 52 857 + 4 fr 35136 633661 70747 562914 + 68241 ga 14 49 25 24 + 7 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 58 778 27 751 - 91 gg 184 258 173 85 + 8 gh 16 354 58 296 + 3 gi 117 656 316 340 + 11 gl 247 2532 479 2053 + 7 gn 2 9 0 9 + 1 gq 6 12 7 5 0 gr 7338 62251 6012 56239 + 2315 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2392 16805 3651 13154 + 342 hu 8231 114453 14280 100173 - 1367 ie 7307 68585 7467 61118 - 181 il 9286 149230 27519 121711 + 2031 im 1 0 0 0 - 95 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 74 942 84 858 + 57 is 2013 26575 1528 25047 + 272 it 54694 424326 64939 359387 - 67291 je 180 192 86 106 + 8 jo 418 1113 414 699 + 25 ke 343 2254 638 1616 + 216 kg 58 1795 143 1652 + 18 kz 411 3052 582 2470 + 59 lb 1031 3292 847 2445 - 1481 li 969 2184 890 1294 + 109 lr 5 0 0 0 0 lt 1725 12148 1027 11121 + 426 lu 2175 9604 1341 8263 + 430 lv 1338 19594 3732 15862 + 413 ma 381 2515 461 2054 + 5 mc 235 621 193 428 - 2 md 580 1401 379 1022 + 536 mk 450 1595 213 1382 + 33 ml 17 198 8 190 + 2 mt 357 5821 452 5369 + 3749 ne 17 133 6 127 + 27 ng 196 671 459 212 + 27 nl 67030 758201 76730 681471 + 66532 no 23698 351345 20552 330793 + 2107 om 24 2898 10 2888 0 pl 22200 196879 44667 152212 + 4343 pt 7885 72599 10337 62262 + 2449 qa 28 862 8 854 + 236 ro 2676 31410 3974 27436 + 7080 ru 19161 241926 57545 184381 + 3660 sa 292 1595 480 1115 + 393 se 33644 458905 38331 420574 + 8409 si 3862 25096 2950 22146 - 771 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 7647 31256 6810 24446 + 874 sl 7 73 0 73 + 73 sm 81 340 15 325 + 15 sn 77 930 236 694 + 16 su 1440 29752 1805 27947 - 6 sy 4 1 0 1 0 td 6 8 4 4 0 tj 140 784 548 236 + 21 tm 1641 2943 1818 1125 - 98 tn 1 68 44 24 + 3 tr 7711 61124 5912 55212 + 723 ua 2522 34338 12508 21830 + 561 ug 17 136 10 126 + 2 uk 165451 1819214 307118 1512096 0 uz 162 661 273 388 - 16 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 31 40 14 26 + 1 yu 2432 10089 1288 8801 + 1166 ============================================================== 100 1036007 10251184 1822776 8428408 +218793