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- From: Donald E. Eastlake, III <dee@ranger.enet.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: Number of computers on the Internet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.192117.27139@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- References: <memo.763146@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:21:17 GMT
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- In article <memo.763146@cix.compulink.co.uk> Steve Browne,
- steveb@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >>>Subject: Number of computers on the Internet
- >>>Does anyone know of an Internet source where I can get up-to-date
- stats
- >>>about the number of computers and users on the Internet?
- >>>The most recent estimate I have right now is that "nearly one
- million"
- >>>
- >>>Thanks for your help,
- >>>
- >>>- Dan Fass
- >
- >I would be very interested in a source for this kind of information
- too.
- >
- >S.
- From: US1RMC::"nisc@nisc.sri.com" "SRI NISC" 29-OCT-1992 03:59
- To: ietf@isi.edu
- CC: nisc@nisc.sri.com
- Subj: Internet Domain Survey
-
- Network Information Systems Center October
- 1992
- SRI International Internet Domain
- Survey
-
- The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by
- doing a complete search of the Domain Name System. The latest results
- gathered during late October 1992 are listed. For more information
- see
- RFC 1296; for detailed data see the pub/zone directory on
- ftp.nisc.sri.com.
- This survey was done using the census program developed at the
- University
- of California Santa Cruz; see technical report UCSC-CRL-92-34
- available
- on host ftp.cse.ucsc.edu. The statistics below were generated by
- running
- the collected host data through a number of utility programs.
-
- -- Mark K.
- Lottor
-
-
- October 1992 July 1992 Percent Change
- Hosts: 1,136,000 992,000 14.5%
- Domains: 18,100 16,300 11.0%
-
-
- Number of Networks (based on DNS IP addresses)
-
- October 1992 July 1992 Percent Change
- Class A: 52 60 -13%
- Class B: 2985 2714 10%
- Class C: 4468 3795 18%
- Total: 7505 6569 14%
-
-
- Host Distribution by Top-Level Domain Name
-
- 370716 edu 21597 fr 3647 tw 955 ie 45 su
- 304259 com 20370 jp 2930 il 855 cs 28 ec
- 71529 gov 20309 ch 2828 za 673 gr 12 yu
- 60363 mil 18541 fi 2767 hk 670 is 9 tn
- 56913 au 17089 no 1986 nz 480 us 9 in
- 48213 uk 12314 net 1705 be 302 cl 6 ve
- 45105 ca 7438 at 1536 pt 178 hu 4 aq
- 28328 org 6143 it 1529 br 104 ar 2 th
- 26807 de 4792 es 1297 mx 81 lu 2 gb
- 23600 se 4612 dk 1160 sg 76 ee
- 22990 nl 4029 kr 956 pl 53 int
-
-
- Top 50 Host Names
-
- 552 venus 412 saturn 339 eagle 298 pc3 274
- mac16
- 503 pluto 403 mercury 337 mac10 298 mac13 273
- titan
- 487 mars 393 iris 325 newton 298 hobbes 272
- sirius
- 462 cisco 386 mac3 325 mac6 286 mac14 272
- calvin
- 456 mac1 361 mac4 312 mac7 285 apollo 271
- athena
- 453 zeus 358 pc2 312 gauss 284 fred 267
- alpha
- 452 jupiter 354 orion 306 mac11 283 thor 262
- mac17
- 438 mac2 349 neptune 305 mac8 283 mac15 261
- phoenix
- 427 gw 345 charon 302 mac12 278 hermes 259
- mac18
- 421 pc1 344 mac5 299 mac9 276 merlin 256
- pc4
-