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[Orig to <usual@espace.net>. MIDS published the first
fee-based nonacademic newsletter authorized for dis-
tribution over 'the net' (in April 1991) according
to the old network 'acceptable use policies' whose
echoes we still hear in complaints about the commer-
cialization of the net. (thanks to david bennahum
for maintaining the CYHIST mailing list, which makes
it easy to dredge up the specifics. archives are at
<http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/cyhist.html>.)
the M in MIDS stands for 'Matrix,' which predates the
the popular or de facto consensus on using the word
'internet' to describe the whole network. --cheers, tb]
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Biannual Strategic Note 17 Feb 1999
Center for Next Generation Internet NGI.ORG
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc
INTERNET SURVEY REACHES 43.2 MILLION INTERNET HOST LEVEL
Herndon VA, USA, Austin TX. The latest results from the Internet's most
basic and longest continuing measurement of it's size were just
released by Mark Lottor of Network Wizards working in conjunction with
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS) of Austin TX.
The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet
by using the Domain Name System. The results were gathered
during Jan 1999. The general data plus some Network Wizards charts
are available at <http://www.nw.com/>. Detailed data is available from
MIDS.
Lottor's measurements show that the Internet currently consists
of countless autonomous networks with 43,230,000 "advertised"
connected computers (hosts) in 214 countries and territories. Because
of the unknown and potentially unlimited numbers of multiuser computers
and network or application gateways, it is not possible to correlate
any of this information with the number of end users. However, see
the MIDS estimates at <http://www.mids.org>
o The figure of 43.2 million hosts represents a significant new
benchmark for the number of Internet hosts. The current
Internet annual host growth rate is 46 percent - about the same
level it has been at for the past several years. Based on the
current average growth, the 100 million host level will be
reached 2nd quarter of 2001.
o The largest domain is .COM, consisting 12.1 million hosts, and
constituting 28 percent of all hosts. Together, the hosts in
all the generic domains constitute 67 percent of all Internet hosts.
These proportions remain unchanged.
o Subsequent processing by MIDS to attribute hosts under the three
letter generic domains to specific countries is in progress and
MIDS will publish the results in its periodicals as usual; see
<http://www.mids.org/>. Meanwhile, it is clear that substantial
global growth is occurring and the new data is consistent with
the approximately 60/40 percentage of US based hosts versus non-US
based hosts.
This and previous strategic summaries, as well as very attractive
new graphic presentations of all these values and trends can be
found at:
<http://www.ngi.org/trends.htm> or <http://www.mids.org/mapsale/data/>
*******************************************************************
* This analysis and material is made available to the Internet *
* community. The material may be copied and distributed providing *
* attribution is given to the sources. *
*******************************************************************
Tony Rutkowski
NGI Associates
Herndon VA 22071
USA
mailto: amr@ngi.org
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Host Counts by Size
(above 10,000)
change from
domain count Jul 1998
------ ---------- -----
com 12,140,747 18%
net 8,856,687 26%
edu 5,022,815 13%
Japan 1,687,534 25%
USA-dom 1,562,391 20%
mil 1,510,440 11%
UK 1,423,804 20%
Germany 1,316,893 14%
Canada 1,119,172 9%
Australia 792,351 6%
org 744,285 15%
gov 651,200 6%
Netherlands 564,129 10%
Finland 546,244 6%
France 488,043 13%
Sweden 431,809 13%
Italy 338,822 6%
Norway 318,631 2%
Taiwan 308,676 198%
Denmark 279,790 47%
Spain 264,245 9%
Switzerland 224,350 9%
Brazil 215,086 31%
Korea 186,414 7%
New Zealand [data problematic]
Belgium 165,873 8%
Russian Fed. (RU 147,352 13%
South Africa 144,445 3%
Austria 143,153 8%
Mexico 112,620 34%
Poland 108,588 10%
Israel 97,765 12%
Hungary 83,530 13%
Hong Kong 82,773 15%
Czech 73,770 12%
Singapore 67,060 13%
Argentina 66,454 16%
Ireland 54,872 22%
Greece 51,541 29%
Portugal 49,731 10%
Malaysia 47,852 17%
Turkey 32,496 17%
Chile 30,103 32%
Estonia 21,969 16%
Iceland 21,894 6%
Thailand 20,527 -19%
Russia (SU) 19,475 -3%
Slovakia 17,953 27%
United Arab Emir 17,904 32%
Slovenia 17,836 -1%
China 17,255 -11%
Romania 16,659 22%
Colombia 16,200 37%
Ukraine 15,652 18%
Indonesia 15,448 44%
Uruguay 15,394 -6%
India 13,253 27%
Latvia 10,345 27%
Lithuania 10,147 16%
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Host Counts by Host Growth
(above 10,000 hosts)
change from
domain count Jul 1998
------ ---------- ---------
com 12,140,747 1,839,177
net 8,856,687 1,801,824
edu 5,022,815 558,599
Japan 1,687,534 335,334
USA-dom 1,562,391 260,187
UK 1,423,804 233,141
Taiwan 308,676 205,015
Germany 1,316,893 162,553
mil 1,510,440 151,287
org 744,285 99,314
Canada 1,119,172 91,601
Denmark 279,790 89,497
France 488,043 56,998
Brazil 215,086 51,196
Sweden 431,809 51,175
Netherlands 564,129 49,469
Australia 792,351 42,024
gov 651,200 38,475
Finland 546,244 32,717
Mexico 112,620 28,671
Spain 264,245 20,809
Switzerland 224,350 18,757
Italy 338,822 18,097
Russian Fed. (RU) 147,352 16,930
Belgium 165,873 12,113
Korea 186,414 11,614
Greece 51,541 11,480
Austria 143,153 10,951
Hong Kong 82,773 10,541
Israel 97,765 10,123
Ireland 54,872 10,032
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Host Counts by Growth Rate
(above 100%)
change from
domain count Jul 1998
------ ---------- -----
Heard And McDonald Islands 72 7100%
Christmas Island 763 6836%
St. Helena 36 3500%
Bhutan 36 1700%
Puerto Rico 1,571 1177%
Ascension Island 60 1100%
Kyrgyzstan 1,907 948%
Saudi Arabia 319 660%
South Georgia-S Sandwich Isls 7 600%
Saint Kitts and Nevis 5 400%
Isle of Man 98 367%
Nigeria 410 351%
Libya 4 300%
Namibia 2,654 299%
Niger 18 260%
Montserrat 25 257%
Madagascar 61 239%
Greenland 1,741 238%
American Samoa 57 217%
Cocos (Keeling) Island 789 205%
Taiwan 308,676 198%
Jersey 39 179%
Uganda 113 176%
Martinique 38 124%
Niue 3,461 115%
East Timor 2 100%
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