Subject: new host count numbers

From: April Marine <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:32:41 -0700 (PDT)

Hi all,

Here's a quick snapshop of the host count numbers from the latest
Network Wizards DNS survey.  The Internet Software Consortium is
sponsoring this work now, so more summary data and info can be found
at http://www.isc.org/.

regards,
April Marine

Internet Domain Survey July 1999

Number of Hosts advertised in the DNS

           |     Survey  
     Date  | Host Count  
     ------+-------------
     Jul 99| 56,218,000  
     Jan 99| 43,230,000  

     Jul 98| 36,739,000 
     Jan 98| 29,670,000 

Distribution by Top-Level Domain Name by Host Count
     July 1999 (top 15 shown)

  Domain    Hosts
                                
  TOTAL  56218330 

   com   18773097 
   net   12432542 
   edu    5141774 
   jp     2072529 
   uk     1599497 
   mil    1561756 
   us     1555882 
   de     1426928 
   ca     1294447 
   au      907637 
   org     821933 
   gov     683363 
   fr      653686 
   nl      637591 
   fi      577029 

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