RIPE Region Hostcount for December 2001

[RIPE Hostcount Maintainer <]

Dear All,

below is the hostcount for December 2001. 

The table shows a decrease since last month of over 500,000 (or 3,5%) 
to a total of almost 15,650,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and
surrounding areas.

The pt domain shows the highest increase for December with approximately
67,000 hosts more than in November.

Background information and more statistics are
available at

    http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/

- Brief Notes on this Hostcount -

The large drop in the number of hosts counted for the past month is
caused mainly by decreases in at, it and ru.  A lot of zones in those 
domains were unfortunately not countable because of AXFR blocks, 
which seem to happen more often lately.

For this reason, we are considering to contact the administrators of
blocking nameservers with the request to allow zone transfers to the
hostcount IP address.

  - The November, 2001 data for be was reused since no new remote data 
    was received.
  - The November, 2001 data for gr and ir was reused since no new 
    collection could be done due to an AXFR block.

- Credits -

I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount
every month by running a local count:

ad	Joan Marc Lauga 
am	Hrant Dadivanyan 
at	Gerhard Winkler	
be	DNS-BE Registration Office 
ch	Marcel Schneider 
cy	Vasoula Papapetrou 
cz	Jiri Orsag 
de	Peter Koch 
dk	Morten Christensen 
eg	EUN Hostcount Admin 
es	Fco. Sanchez Benavides 
fr	Annie Renard 
hr	Ivan Maric 
ie	Mike Norris 
is	Marius Olafsson 
it	Maurizio Martinelli 
	Daniele Vannozzi 
li	Marcel Schneider 
lt	Daiva Tamulioniene 
lu	Alain Frieden 
mk	Goran Muratovski 
mt	Robert Sultana 
no	Havard Eidnes 
pl	Mirek Luc 
pt	Joao Pagaime 
ro	Eugenie Staicut 
ru	Andrey Dobrotsvetov 
sk	Lubos Elias 
sm	Maurizio Martinelli 
	Daniele Vannozzi 
tr	METU Hostcount Admin 

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

Kind regards,

Paul Vlaar
RIPE NCC


                  RIPE DNS Hostcount

Previous Count : Fri Dec 21 2001
This Count     : Thu Jan 24 2002

CY          SOA     COUNTED        DUPL        REAL     CHANGE
==============================================================
ad          638        4128         928        3200          9
ae         4132       82209        5663       76546      -2258
al          116         241          54         187        -12
am         1410        3850        1489        2361          0
at       154369      534243      208227      326016    -180609
az         1396        2290         976        1314          5
ba          728        4996        1748        3248         -1
be        65209      437302       85332      351970          0
bf           63         781          77         704          0
bg         1668       31540        4614       26926       1539
bh           61        2279         561        1718          1
bj           27         512          12         500          4
by          708        4628        1341        3287         44
cf          288        1148         397         751          0
ch       196938      869005      341413      527592       2515
ci          485        3731         600        3131         -3
cm           62         458          68         390         -8
cv           30         158         124          34          2
cy          492        2534         444        2090      -8213
cz       114015      362803      147278      215525       6022
de      3093019    11718725     9292523     2426202      14848
dj          128         141         128          13          0
dk       246240      938411      377355      561056      35971
dz          109         782         117         665         -6
ee         8793       72489       21449       51040        209
eg          363        2014         212        1802        -50
er           52         281          27         254         11
es        31585      595988       57333      538655       1132
fi        31723      960245       73329      886916      36320
fr        96778      949762      160865      788897     -24701
ga           48          94          25          69          3
gb            2          24           0          24          0
ge          833        4203        2122        2081         41
gg         1870        2851        1334        1517         28
gh           57         261          26         235         17
gi          692        1500         232        1268          3
gl         1001        3126         543        2583          8
gm          502         421         301         120          0
gn           35         393         148         245          0
gq            5           8           2           6          4
gr        29453      175442       32202      143240          0
gw            2          21           1          20          0
hr         6437       41909       19921       21988      -7298
hu        48192      260024       92439      167585       7147
ie        20815      157459       29367      128092       7002
il        27650      283355      139677      143678        223
im          594        1047         456         591          1
ir          407        3268         802        2466          0
is         7480       64387        9719       54668       3170
it       418539     1224740      544279      680461    -156115
je         1932        2912        1335        1577         29
jo          713        3774        1589        2185         24
ke         1632        3421         719        2702         39
kg        10090       15565       11007        4558         65
kz         2850       14281        3334       10947        -89
lb         1324        8858        1757        7101          1
li         6466       13592       10025        3567       2677
lr           14          13           3          10          0
lt         8255       43363        8208       35155       1675
lu         5339       18602        4637       13965        233
lv         6995       64370       39367       25003        188
ma         1983        5651        3197        2454         29
mc          503        1107         662         445          0
mk          789        3239         645        2594        363
mt         1314       10900        2167        8733       1560
ne           25         185           9         176          0
ng          282        1863        1140         723          8
nl       529457     3957356     1325219     2632137       -666
no        70200      390415       85308      305107       -225
om          129        7203        2525        4678          0
pl        91404      661072      171177      489895     -15526
pt        17810      290575       44041      246534      67301
qa           47         392         265         127         -1
ro        10486       70155       23872       46283      -3387
ru      132001      778125      423786      354339     -406634
sa         2444       14155        2733       11422       -953
se        73857      815901       80701      735200      -1536
si         8879       39205        9647       29558         86
sj            1           0           0           0          0
sk        41722      189271      116714       72557       1388
sl            7         282           4         278          0
sm          488        2199         539        1660        294
so            1          10           6           4          0
su         1205      354307      326943       27364         22
sy            4          18           9           9          0
td            1           6           5           1          0
tj          120         996         697         299          2
tm         1281        3011        1391        1620         -5
tn           32         413         195         218          5
tr        18964      137301       30745      106556       1480
ua        40268      183311      125076       58235       1506
ug          587         819         526         293          6
uk      1652982     5712666     3481690     2230976      54153
va            2           9           0           9          0
yu        10710       24434        8770       15664        178
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95      7371834    33657510    18010665    15646845    -558705