Internet Domain Survey, January 1996
Number of Hosts, Domains, and Nets
Replied Network Class
Date | Hosts Domains ToPing* A B C
------+-----------------------------------------------------
Jan 96| 9,472,000 240,000 1,682,000 92 5655 87924
Jul 95| 6,642,000 120,000 1,149,000 91 5390 56057
Jan 95| 4,852,000 71,000 970,000 91 4979 34340
Oct 94| 3,864,000 56,000 1,024,000 93 4831 32098
Jul 94| 3,212,000 46,000 707,000 89 4493 20628
Jan 94| 2,217,000 30,000 576,000 74 4043 16422
Oct 93| 2,056,000 28,000 69 3849 12615
Jul 93| 1,776,000 26,000 464,000 67 3728 9972
Apr 93| 1,486,000 22,000 421,000 58 3409 6255
Jan 93| 1,313,000 21,000 54 3206 4998
[* estimated by pinging 1% of all hosts]
Host Distribution by Top-Level Domain Name
Domains Domains Percent Domains
Domain Hosts Queried Missed Missed
TOTAL 9472224 240520 126155 34%
com 2430954 132216 109366 45% Commercial
edu 1793491 10081 833 8% Educational
net 758597 9054 2819 24% Networks
gov 312330 1873 361 16% Government
org 265327 11823 3612 23% Organizations
mil 258791 866 157 15% US Military
de 452997 6302 393 6% Germany
uk 451750 9979 1923 16% United Kingdom
ca 372891 5909 733 11% Canada
au 309562 5608 352 6% Australia
jp 269327 7584 459 6% Japan
us 233912 5405 1159 18% United States
fi 208502 1337 114 8% Finland
nl 174888 1808 120 6% Netherlands
se 149877 3007 282 9% Sweden
fr 137217 2439 153 6% France
no 88356 2084 15 1% Norway
ch 85844 1401 52 4% Switzerland
it 73364 2669 175 6% Italy
es 53707 1255 49 4% Spain
nz 53610 804 41 5% New Zealand
at 52728 1169 111 9% Austria
dk 51827 872 35 4% Denmark
za 48277 911 41 4% South Africa
be 30535 1286 66 5% Belgium
il 29503 668 57 8% Israel
kr 29306 672 156 19% Korea, Republic Of
tw 25273 791 349 31% Taiwan, Province Of China
pl 24945 802 97 11% Poland
sg 22769 276 87 24% Singapore
br 20113 1057 543 34% Brazil
hk 17693 921 56 6% Hong Kong
cz 16786 340 57 14% Czech Republic
int 1557 714 36 5% International Organizations
ie 15036 371 21 5% Ireland
......
Distributions by Host Name
Top 50 Host Names
[not including names like pc01, mac5, etc.]
75743 www 2532 test 1548 orion 1296 neptune 1027 homer
11532 ns 2272 venus 1547 server 1213 bbs 1018 falcon
11520 ftp 2052 pluto 1474 gopher 1194 mac 996 athena
10125 mail 2023 mars 1438 iris 1151 admin 992 calvin
8629 user 2005 cisco 1412 hub 1124 hermes 971 fred
4444 router 1912 zeus 1351 gate 1112 newton 965 titan
4120 news 1834 jupiter 1351 dns 1080 phoenix 960 snoopy
3199 gateway 1705 mercury 1334 eagle 1062 thor 954 earth
3072 gw 1638 saturn 1325 apollo 1048 merlin 924 sirius
2604 mailhost 1599 alpha 1314 smtp 1041 demo 916 gandalf
Domain Survey Observations, January 1996
- The net domain is over twice as large as it was
six months ago.
- About 76000 systems are now named www, up from only
17000 six months ago.
- The percent of domains not surveyed due to servers
refusing answers or connection problems has risen from 20%
to 34% in the last 6 months.
- No one has any clue how many users there are, but most
people would agree that there is at least one user per host.
