START at Wed Feb 26 17:31:04 MET 1992

Counting : al at be bg ch cs dk es fi fr gr hu ie is it il nl no pl pt ro se su tn uk yu

Domain          Subdomains      Hosts
=====================================
al                  0               0
 Hi folks,

better late than never here is the July host count.  I did not take as
much time as Marten usually does to re-count unreachable nameservers, so
the count may be a little low.  A list of domains for which no servers
responded is attached below. 

Generally one can say that growth continues as expected.  There are
still a lot of networks referenced which are not in the RIPE database. 
Please spread the word about the database in your vicinity. 

I have also heared quite some implicit and explicit critisism of the
counting and the numbers published.  They have been called "wild
guesses" and "unrealistic estimates".  Just to make it perfectly clear:
We count all hosts registered in the DNS.  There is no guessing
involved.  Files which list all hostnames counted can be found in
directory ftp.ripe.net:~ftp/ripe/hostcount which is accessible via the
usual RIPE document store access methods. Since usually some nameservers
cannot be reached at the time of the count the numbers are actually 
a lower bound of the real number of hosts registered. 

Another critisism has been that the count uses network bandwidth which
could be used for more useful things.  The answer to that is that we
count during the weekend when in most regions of the net there is
sufficient bandwith for all applications. 

For DNS administrators it might be a good idea to look at the error
files in the hostcount directory mentioned above. It might give you
some suggestions for improving your DNS setup.

Regards

Daniel

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                  RIPE DNS Hostcount

Previous Count : Mon Jun 29
This Count     : Mon Aug 3

CY         SOA     COUNTED        DUPL        REAL    CHANGE
============================================================
al           1           0           0           0         0
at         142        6550          22        6528    +  328
be          17        1489          52        1437    +  321
 bg                  1               0
 cs                  1               1
dk                 62            2122
be                 13             742
ch                 35           13952
at                 97            3775
de                643           34196
hu                  3              38
is                  6             275
ie                 16             497
il                 19            2288
fi                 97           13201
gr                 36             464
es                106            1887
it                 94            3289
fr                229           14613
 0           0         0
by           0           0           0           0         0
ch          57       17138         118       17020    +  685
cs          10         634          61         573    +   29
de         827       46903        1075       45828    + 4845
dk          67        2822          43        2779    +  298
dz           0           0           0           0         0
ee           1          39           0          39    +   16
es         148        3776          57        3719    +  566
fi         125       16007         144       15863    +  683
fr         279       19006         233       18773    +  607
gb           1           0           0           0         0
gr          32         485         121         364    -  106
hr           0           0           0           0         0
hu           4         101           2          99    +   28
ie          19         628           2         626    +   50
is           8         401           1         400    +   21
it         163        4950          98        4852    +   20
il          40        2829          48        2781    +  112
lt           1           0           0           0         0
lu           5          78           0          78    +    2
lv           1           0           0           0         0
nl         261       20637         376       20261    +  721
no         271       14411         167       14244    +  791
pl          47         583           6         577    +   27
pt          47        1347          22        1325    +   59
 ro                  0               0
 su                  1               0
tn                  2              27
yu                  2              15
pt                 32             970
no                228           11833
nl                210           16331
se                216           17346
pl                 24             293
uk                152           23279
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                 2325          161434

END at Thu Feb 27 03:02:59 MET 1992