European Hostcount for October 1998

[RIPE Hostcount Maintainer <]

Dear All,

below is the hostcount for October 1998. 

The table shows an increase since last month of approximately
190,000 (or 2,8 %) to a total of almost 7,650,000 hosts in the 
DNS in Europe and surrounding areas.

The 'it' domain shows the highest increase for October with 
approximately 43500 hosts more than in September.

- Brief Notes on this Hostcount -

As is sometimes the case, the high increase for 'it' can be put
down to a *decrease* the previous month. This highlights the fact
that the overall progression is more useful than the snapshot of 
a single month.

Somewhat surprising is the large reduction for 'de'. The
'de' hostcounter tells me that a major reason for this was the
restructuring of the DNS of a company previously having around
30000 registered hosts.

- 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
cycz	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
is	Marius Olafsson               marius@localhost        
it	Maurizio Martinelli           <M.Martinelli@localhost
	Daniele Vannozzi              <D.Vannozzi@localhost
li	Marcel Schneider              schneider@localhost
lt	Daiva Tamulioniene            daiva@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 : Tue Oct 6 1998
This Count     : Thu Nov 5 1998

CY          SOA     COUNTED        DUPL        REAL     CHANGE
==============================================================
al           10         146           8         138    -     1
am          139        1091         212         879    -    10
at        26878      203905       44322      159583    +  3588
az           53         424          32         392    +     6
ba           27         159          56         103    -   434
be        12567      225275       22891      202384    + 16470
bg          612       12245        1471       10774    +   296
by          114        1270         176        1094    +   107
ch        44197      281937       50843      231094    +  1166
cy          666        5243         175        5068    +     3
cz        18640       90849       12674       78175    +  5368
de       173168     1751290      346595     1404695    - 17994
dk        61179      335612       46290      289322    +  2392
dz            5          18           1          17          0
ee         2167       24196        1662       22534    +  1236
eg          749        2697         248        2449    -   393
es        11755      300945       12906      288039    + 26448
fi         9463      480967       15634      465333    +  8737
fo          157         592          34         558    +     2
fr        28066      515371       37438      477933    + 18025
gb            2          27           0          27    +     1
ge           56         784          50         734    +    29
gr         8464       49083        3400       45683    +  1920
hr         1755       13923        2270       11653    +  3563
hu         6320       97455        9757       87698    -  1771
ie         6320       58876        6767       52109    +  2373
il         7357      133206       25083      108123    +  3391
is         1529       25068        1008       24060    +  1061
it        42980      448180       54976      393204    + 43498
li          708        1764         673        1091    +    52
lt         1176       10278         678        9600    +   584
lu         1623        8178        1250        6928    +   118
lv          965       14883        2515       12368    +   746
ma          256        2033         402        1631    -   271
md           84         791         148         643    +   120
mk          279        1075         130         945    -     9
mt          279        2161         345        1816    +    58
nl        48899      649720       55173      594547    +  5415
no        22236      333512       17413      316099    +   593
pl        17917      160604       34162      126442    +  7744
pt         6986       61202        8374       52828    +  2083
ro         1683       22876        2135       20741    -     4
ru        14571      191573       37671      153902    +  4702
se        29534      432149       27775      404374    +  2079
si         3005       24832        2610       22222    +   263
sk         5657       26674        4926       21748    +  1478
sm           50         251           4         247    +     6
su         1299       31557        1804       29753    +  3202
tn            1          42          31          11    -    64
tr         7054       46317        5150       41167    + 14850
ua         1795       30316        9189       21127    +   107
uk       132237     1712315      275864     1436451    + 29275
va            2           8           0           8    -     6
yu         1802        7727         727        7000    +    30
==============================================================
         765493     8833672     1186128     7647544    +192228