Dear All, below is the hostcount for April 1999. The table shows a *decrease* since last month of around 95,000 (or 1.1%) to a total of almost 8,330,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The de domain shows the highest increase for April with approximately 72,000 hosts more than in March. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/statistics/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The somewhat surprising decrease in the overall number of hosts was largely caused by a decrease of around 1/4 million hosts in uk. There was not sufficient time between receiving the data file and publishing the hostcount to account for this, but we will certainly investigate and report back next month. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by counting hosts 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. CSIC-RedIRIS 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 tr Hostcount Maintainer uk Robert Stone Kevin Hoadley If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Lee Wilmot RIPE NCC -------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Count : Wed Apr 7 1999 This Count : Thu May 6 1999 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 289 1011 400 611 + 4 ae 404 18077 464 17613 - 90 al 17 209 15 194 + 77 am 189 1369 185 1184 + 107 at 35616 261466 69745 191721 + 16382 az 86 438 41 397 + 5 ba 101 915 100 815 + 15 be 16357 337843 34679 303164 + 3850 bf 6 193 6 187 - 109 bg 725 15265 1256 14009 + 479 bh 28 1535 127 1408 - 2 bj 11 88 15 73 - 3 by 159 1163 201 962 - 87 cf 2 7 0 7 - 1 ch 59821 331413 78365 253048 - 5114 ci 158 781 89 692 + 68 cm 7 240 3 237 + 72 cv 10 33 16 17 0 cy 746 5345 324 5021 + 385 cz 30055 121170 20916 100254 + 7666 de 317347 2394443 788992 1605451 + 70315 dj 5 43 4 39 + 30 dk 71840 389480 77265 312215 + 143 dz 19 123 9 114 - 9 ee 2870 28679 2061 26618 + 913 eg 1003 3006 376 2630 + 137 er 1 1 0 1 + 1 es 13958 344723 19068 325655 + 8776 fi 11568 469647 15717 453930 - 13277 fo 219 649 53 596 - 261 fr 37626 656807 76290 580517 + 17603 ga 12 42 21 21 - 3 gb 2 27 0 27 0 ge 64 835 39 796 + 45 gg 193 267 173 94 + 9 gh 16 329 36 293 - 3 gi 136 1086 598 488 + 148 gl 262 2668 504 2164 + 111 gn 2 10 0 10 + 1 gq 6 12 7 5 0 gr 7741 65603 6361 59242 + 3003 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 2530 17399 4096 13303 + 149 hu 8651 112622 15025 97597 - 2576 ie 7506 69268 7638 61630 + 512 il 9629 152333 28118 124215 + 2504 im 164 190 80 110 + 110 iq 1 0 0 0 0 ir 75 846 83 763 - 95 is 2092 26765 1634 25131 + 84 it 31625 295817 28649 267168 - 92219 je 193 213 95 118 + 12 jo 440 1344 430 914 + 215 ke 365 2559 670 1889 + 273 kg 63 1485 152 1333 - 319 kz 410 3187 565 2622 + 152 lb 1114 3668 951 2717 + 272 li 1034 2744 946 1798 + 504 lr 5 0 0 0 0 lt 1827 12480 1066 11414 + 293 lu 2306 9780 1432 8348 + 85 lv 1262 19333 3882 15451 - 411 ma 395 2765 635 2130 + 76 mc 267 711 217 494 + 66 md 937 2014 587 1427 + 405 mk 472 1588 233 1355 - 27 ml 16 194 8 186 - 4 mt 379 5907 511 5396 + 27 ne 12 108 5 103 - 24 ng 190 648 442 206 - 6 nl 66287 808853 82075 726778 + 45307 no 25008 360300 21440 338860 + 8067 om 24 2901 12 2889 + 1 pl 23337 198047 44422 153625 + 1413 pt 8189 75014 10735 64279 + 2017 qa 28 863 7 856 + 2 ro 2610 27859 3917 23942 - 3494 ru 20358 226852 40166 186686 + 2305 sa 405 3609 653 2956 + 1841 se 28726 525604 36252 489352 + 68778 si 4042 25519 3024 22495 + 349 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 8176 33339 7297 26042 + 1596 sl 7 74 0 74 + 1 sm 86 344 17 327 + 2 sn 81 917 217 700 + 6 su 1412 29791 1770 28021 + 74 sy 1 0 0 0 - 1 td 6 8 4 4 0 tj 145 838 596 242 + 6 tm 1507 2812 1658 1154 + 29 tn 1 69 43 26 + 2 tr 8480 70745 9978 60767 + 5555 ua 2731 34770 12841 21929 + 99 ug 17 150 10 140 + 14 uk 191640 1604974 341676 1263298 -248798 uz 218 534 202 332 - 56 va 2 8 0 8 0 ye 33 46 17 29 + 3 yu 2423 9416 1194 8222 - 579 ============================================================== 100 1079620 10247286 1912895 8334391 - 94017