RIPE DNS Hostcount for DE: Results for October 2003

The latest RIPE DNS hostcount for the German top level domain DE was run on October, 27th 2003. Here are the results in brief:

There were 3915701 zones found and examined
In these zones 14312945 hosts were found
11863641 duplicate hosts got discovered
... leading to a total number of 2449304 hosts registered under DE.
We see an increase of 1.1 % compared to last month. The annual rate is at 4.8 % decrease.
There are 0 % more zones than in September and 8 % more than in October 2002.

For an explanation of the large zone growth rate see the September 1997 edition.

RIPE DNS hostcounts are performed using the host utility developed by Eric Wassenaar at NIKHEF.

Peter Koch, 2003-11-05