European Hostcount for September 1998

[RIPE Hostcount Maintainer <]

Dear All,

below is the hostcount for September 1998. 

The table shows an increase since last month of over 200,000 (or 2.8%) 
to a total of almost 7,500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and
surrounding areas.

The nl domain shows the highest increase for September with approximately
70,000 hosts more than in August.

- Brief Notes on this Hostcount -

tr and hr showed an unusual decrease. This was due to
difficulties with the remote data. The figures shown
reflect the locally-collected data.

The it domain shows a large decrease. A quick check of the 
error data showed quite a large increase in AXFR refusals 
by a frequently-referenced nameserver.

- 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@localhost
be	DNS-BE Registration Office    tech@localhost 
ch	Marcel Schneider              schneider@localhost
cz	Jiri Orsag                    <Jiri.Orsag@localhost
de	Peter Koch                    pk@localhost
dk	Morten Christensen            morten@localhost
es	Jose Sanchez-Seco             <jose.sanchez@localhost
fr	Annie Renard                  <Annie.Renard@localhost
gr	Dimitris Zisiadis             zisiadis@localhost
hr	Ivan Maric                    <Ivan.Maric@localhost
ie	Mike Norris                   mnorris@localhost
il	Shuki Kenan                   shuki@localhost
it	Maurizio Martinelli           <M.Martinelli@localhost
	Daniele Vannozzi              <D.Vannozzi@localhost
li	Marcel Schneider              schneider@localhost
no	Havard Eidnes                 <Havard.Eidnes@localhost
pl	Mirek Luc                     mirek@localhost
pt	Armando Domingues             armando@localhost 
ru	Andrey Dobrotsvetov           adbr@localhost
sk	Lubos Elias                   <Lubos.Elias@localhost
sm	Maurizio Martinelli           <M.Martinelli@localhost
	Daniele Vannozzi              <D.Vannozzi@localhost
tr	Yener Yigit                   yener@localhost
uk	Robert Stone                  robert@localhost
	Kevin Hoadley                 <K.Hoadley@localhost


If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,

Lee Wilmot
RIPE NCC

                  RIPE DNS Hostcount

Previous Count : Sat Sep 5 1998
This Count     : Tue Oct 6 1998

CY          SOA     COUNTED        DUPL        REAL     CHANGE
==============================================================
al           10         146           7         139    +     4
am          133        1074         185         889    +    65
at        24898      196798       40803      155995    +  1209
az           49         415          29         386    +    12
ba           43         577          40         537    -    12
be        10895      207580       21666      185914    +  2020
bg          590       11819        1341       10478    +   415
by           96        1140         153         987    +   139
ch        41615      276468       46540      229928    + 14912
cy          637        5216         151        5065    +    46
cz        16202       83698       10891       72807    +  1678
de       163637     1747865      325176     1422689    + 59749
dk        57921      328407       41477      286930    + 12206
dz            5          18           1          17    -     3
ee         2113       22810        1512       21298    +   408
eg          690        3050         208        2842    +   101
es        11013      272608       11017      261591    +  2241
fi         9132      471748       15152      456596    +  7891
fo          146         587          31         556    +    22
fr        26139      494713       34805      459908    +  5812
gb            2          26           0          26          0
ge           52         759          54         705    +    24
gr         6299       47471        3708       43763    +  2949
hr         1062       10103        2013        8090    -  2181
hu         6163       98907        9438       89469    +  2437
ie         6140       54753        5017       49736    +  1695
il         6889      129156       24424      104732    +  2269
is         1436       23987         988       22999    +   473
it        40557      401156       51450      349706    - 48018
li          677        1686         647        1039    +     3
lt         1105        9642         626        9016    +   774
lu         1490        7958        1148        6810    +    73
lv          912       13999        2377       11622    +   536
ma          240        2182         280        1902    +   135
md           73         665         142         523    +     6
mk          265        1069         115         954    +    45
mt          267        2062         304        1758    +    43
nl        46146      641841       52709      589132    + 70168
no        21192      332779       17273      315506    +  5573
pl        17237      150603       31905      118698    +  1630
pt         6817       58759        8014       50745    +   368
ro         1643       22897        2152       20745    +   900
ru        14701      184798       35598      149200    +   986
se        29452      429093       26798      402295    +  6051
si         2929       24473        2514       21959    +  1068
sk         5500       25080        4810       20270    +   432
sm           48         243           2         241    +     6
su         1298       28326        1775       26551    +   154
tn           11         166          91          75    -     5
tr         7104       30922        4605       26317    - 12352
ua         1577       29883        8863       21020    +   777
uk       122850     1642474      235298     1407176    + 58723
va            2          14           0          14    +     6
yu         1689        7611         641        6970    -    81
==============================================================
         719789     8542280     1086964     7455316    +204582