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<nettime> Biannual Strategic Note - 17 Feb 1999


     [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/>


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* 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
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

====================================================================
           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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