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Subject: IP: Latest Internet statistics
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 18:02:59 -0500
To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
From: Tony Rutkowski <amr@ngi.org>
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Biannual Strategic Note 15 Feb 1998
Center for Next Generation Internet NGI.ORG
INTERNET SURVEY REACHES 30 MILLION INTERNET HOST LEVEL
NEW SURVEY METHOD IMPLEMENTED
Herndon VA, USA. 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 at Menlo Park CA USA.
The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet
by using the Domain Name System. The results were gathered
during Jan 1998. The raw data plus some Network Wizards charts
are available at <http://www.nw.com/>.
Lottor's measurements show that the Internet currently consists
of countless autonomous networks with 29,670,000 "advertised"
connected computers in 240 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
Quarterman's estimates at <http://www.mids.org>
Lottor's new method for accomplishing the survey can be found at
<http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/new-survey.html>. Although the new
method will allow more accurate continuing surveys, it is
sufficiently different so as to prevent definitive comparisons with
older data. However, some strategic highlights can be observed:
o The figure of 29.6 million hosts represents a significant new
benchmark for the number of Internet hosts. By adjusting 1995-97
data and combining it with Jan 1998 data, it appears the current
Internet annual host growth rate is probably between 40 and
50 percent. Based on the average growth over the past three years,
the new projected host figure for Jan 2000 is 90 million.
o The new survey method reveals a larger number of .COM hosts -
the largest domain by far with with 8.2 million hosts, and
constituting 28 percent of all hosts.
o All the generic domain host counts are significantly larger using
the new survey method. This includes .EDU, .NET, .MIL, .ORG,
and .GOV. Together, the hosts in all the generic domains
constitute 66 percent of all Internet hosts.
o The new survey method also provides some useful information
about the Internet Domain Name System structure. More
than 78 percent of the 2nd and 3rd level domain structure
resides within the generic top level domains .COM, .NET,
.EDU, .ORG, .MIL, and .GOV. See table below.
o Without subsequent processing to attribute the three
letter global domains to a country previously done by
John Quarterman of MIDS <http://www.mids.org/>, it's
not possible to determine final country figures. However,
it appears approximately that the same 60% - 40% balance
between USA versus non-USA, proportions may be actually
higher that previously measured.
o Hosts in 240 country domains appear to have connectivity.
The domains of 23 countries or territories appeared on the
host count for the first time - apparently connecting
since July 97. (See below.) Increasingly, some very remote
places are achieving connectivity. However, some of these
hosts may not be actually physically located in the country.
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>
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* 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. *
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Tony Rutkowski
NGI Associates
Herndon VA 22071
USA
tel: +1.703.437.9236
fax: +1.703.471.0596
mailto: amr@ngi.org
mailto: amr@chaos.com
mailto: amr@netmagic.com
mailto: tony@genmagic.com
mailto: amr@media.mit.edu
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New Method Host Counts
(above 1000)
domain 31-Jan-98
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com 8,201,511
edu 5,283,568
net 3,944,967
Japan 1,168,956
mil 1,099,186
USA-dom 1,076,583
Germany 994,926
UK 987,733
Canada 839,141
Australia 665,403
org 519,862
gov 497,646
Finland 450,044
Netherlands 381,172
France 333,306
Sweden 319,065
Norway 286,338
Italy 243,250
Taiwan 176,836
New Zealand 169,264
Spain 168,913
Switzerland 166,000
Denmark 159,358
South Africa 122,025
Korea 121,932
Brazil 117,200
Austria 109,154
Russian Fed 94,137
Belgium 87,938
Poland 77,594
Hong Kong 66,617
Israel 64,233
Singapore 57,605
Czech 52,498
Hungary 46,082
Mexico 41,659
Portugal 39,533
Ireland 38,406
Malaysia 32,269
Greece 26,917
Turkey 24,786
Russia 20,027
Argentina 19,982
Chile 17,821
Iceland 17,450
China 16,322
Slovenia 15,432
Thailand 14,378
Estonia 14,299
Slovakia 11,836
Uruguay 10,295
Colombia 10,173
Indonesia 9,603
Romania 9,335
Ukraine 9,179
India 7,175
Croatia 6,509
Latvia 6,108
Dominican Rep 4,853
Philippines 4,313
Luxembourg 4,273
Bulgaria 4,140
Kuwait 4,057
Yugoslavia 4,020
Venezuela 3,869
Lithuania 3,647
Peru 3,415
Costa Rica 2,965
Cyprus 2,621
Egypt 2,013
Bermuda 1,990
United Arab Emir. 1,940
Pakistan 1,291
Kazakhstan 1,209
Lebanon 1,134
Ecuador 1,036
Panama 1,019
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Level 2 and Level 3 Domains in Use (above 500)
January 1998
Domain Level 2 Level 3 L3+L2
domains domains domains
---------------- --- --------- ---------- ---------
com 560,688 4,103,201 4,663,889
net 31,994 1,973,027 2,005,021
edu 3,203 1,280,208 1,283,411
org 46,307 425,650 471,957
gov 410 153,236 153,646
mil 73 113,527 113,600
Germany de 41,226 293,338 334,564
Finland fi 4,409 298,878 303,287
Canada ca 3,587 200,707 204,294
France fr 5,066 195,238 200,304
Netherlands nl 10,562 188,387 198,949
Norway no 4,657 169,929 174,586
Sweden se 7,293 132,299 139,592
Italy it 10,527 107,510 118,037
Denmark dk 7,984 104,302 112,286
Switzerland ch 9,754 101,623 111,377
Spain es 2,909 95,442 98,351
Russian Federation ru 2,790 48,610 51,400
Czech Republic cz 2,868 30,809 33,677
Belgium be 2,636 24,192 26,828
United Kingdom uk 39 24,947 24,986
Hungary hu 886 23,753 24,639
Austria at 1,825 22,756 24,581
Ireland ie 1,149 23,064 24,213
Portugal pt 1,107 21,716 22,823
Japan jp 88 20,244 20,332
Brazil br 274 16,848 17,122
Australia au 29 15,646 15,675
Iceland is 630 14,767 15,397
Estonia ee 696 10,880 11,576
Hong Kong hk 14 10,699 10,713
Greece gr 730 9,780 10,510
Poland pl 310 10,052 10,362
South Africa za 25 9,447 9,472
Slovenia si 653 8,682 9,335
Slovakia sk 819 8,262 9,081
Chile cl 684 7,186 7,870
Romania ro 432 6,580 7,012
Mexico mx 114 6,744 6,858
Croatia hr 262 5,163 5,425
Latvia lv 305 3,997 4,302
Luxembourg lu 271 3,813 4,084
Taiwan tw 16 3,812 3,828
New Zealand nz 15 3,750 3,765
Lithuania lt 272 2,771 3,043
Korea, Republic Of kr 28 3,007 3,035
Kuwait kw 9 2,925 2,934
United States us 75 2,751 2,826
Soviet Union su 69 2,313 2,382
Argentina ar 21 2,156 2,177
Israel il 11 2,128 2,139
Bermuda bm 81 1,985 2,066
Bulgaria bg 142 1,613 1,755
Turkey tr 14 1,447 1,461
Malaysia my 19 1,411 1,430
Singapore sg 13 1,086 1,099
Yugoslavia yu 18 1,054 1,072
Tonga to 371 578 949
Ukraine ua 42 807 849
Kazakhstan kz 52 791 843
Thailand th 9 622 631
Venezuela ve 26 523 549
Andorra ad 44 486 530
China cn 43 466 509
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Country or Territory Hosts First Appearing Jan 1998
Ascension Island
Afghanistan
Bouvet Island
British Indian Ocean Territory
Burkina Faso
Chad
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Christmas Island
French Southern Territories
Heard and McDonald Islands
Mayotte
Oman
Pitcairn
Sao Tome And Principe
Somalia
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
St. Helena
Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands
Tajikistan
Tokelau
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Wallis And Futuna Islands
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