====================================================================== PRESS RELEASE 4 Nov 1994 INTERNET SURVEY REACHES 3.8 MILLION INTERNET HOST LEVEL 3RD QUARTER 1994 GROWTH IS 21 PERCENT --Reston 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 of Menlo Park CA USA. The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System. The latest results were gathered during late October 1994. The data is available in the zone directory on ftp.nw.com, or http://www.nw.com. The Internet is a very complex, dynamic, distributed aggregation of more than 45 thousand autonomous networks. It defies definitive measurement. Nonetheless, these values consitute prima facie connected host computers, even if many might not always be reachable. They are also extremely valuable for relative comparisons. Newsworthy, strategic highlights of the most current values include: o a 3rd Quarter 1994 overall growth of 21 percent. This represents an even steeper growth than the norm over the past four years. As a result, the projected point at which the number of Internet hosts will hit 100 million is now 1st quarter 1999 - based on the average growth over the past four years. o the .com (commercial) domain is now the largest, and grew by a striking 36 percent during the quarter to 1,054,422 hosts o the .net (network) domain which is heavily used by many public data internet service providers for their customers, grew by 66 percent during the quarter. The entire Internet Society graphic presentation of all these values has been updated and can be found in both powerpoint versions 3 and 4 at: ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/charts/hosts3.ppt ftp://ftp.isoc.org/isoc/charts/hosts4.ppt ---------------------------------------------------------- Host Growth by Geographical Regions 1.Jul.94 1.Oct.94 3Q94 Growth North America 2,172,232 2,678,288 23% Latin America & Caribbean 16,619 22,535 36% Western Europe 730,429 850,993 17% Eastern Europe & CIS 27,800 32,951 19% Middle East 8,871 10,383 17% Africa 15,595 21,041 35% Asia 111,278 127,569 15% South Pacific, Australia, Antartica 142,353 154,473 9% --------- --------- TOTALS 3,225,177 3,898,233 21% ---------------------------------------------------------- Fastest Growing Internet Domains in 3rd Quarter 1994 1.Jul.94 1.Oct.94 3Q94 Growth Argentina 248 1,287 419% Iran 4 14 250% Peru 42 114 171% Egypt 52 129 148% Philippines 65 152 134% Russian Fed 322 734 128% Slovenia 574 1,276 122% Indonesia 54 120 122% Latvia 180 341 89% Turkey 1,204 2,000 66% .net 30,993 51,453 66% Venezuela 399 657 65% Lithuania 53 86 62% Estonia 659 1,014 54% Thailand 1,197 1,832 53% Uruguay 101 153 51% USA 16,556 24,861 50% Mexico 5,164 7,641 48% New Zealand 14,830 20,578 39% Costa Rica 544 745 37% .com 774,735 1,054,422 36% Slovakia 868 1,178 36% South Africa 15,595 21,024 35% .int 315 411 30% Ukraine 339 442 30% Czech 5,639 7,311 30% Algeria 7 9 29% Note that although .net, .com, and .int domains are global, they are predominantly used in the USA at present. ---------------------------------------------------------- The Internet Society is the International Organization for the Internet, its technologies, and applications - providing support and maintenance of standards, operational, developmental, coordination, conference, workshop, publication, and chapter activities worldwide. It has more than 100 organizational members and 4000 individual members in more than 105 countries. Its International Secretariat can be reached at: isoc@isoc.org http://www.isoc.org tel: +1 703 648 9888 fax: +1 703 648 9887 12020 Sunrise Valley Dr suite 270 Reston VA USA A.M. Rutkowski, Executive Director ===========================================================