April 2000

Update: Romania

According to www.ripe.net, the total number of subdomains below ro top level domain counted in Romania increased from 4021 to 4894 between December 1999 to March 2000.

In the table bellow, we can see the evolution of the Romanian hosts.

The terms SOA, COUNTED DUPL, REAL, CHANGE are explained at the end of report.

We used the http://ftp.rnc.ro/cgi-bin/webhosts.ro page from March 2000 as a source for web hosts in .ro domain (page Made by Andrei Petrescu). The page contains only the web servers whose names start with www. There are 5326 such web servers. There are also some other web servers, but we believe that their number will not affect our statistics too much.

We can represent the Romanian Web Sites evolution according to the ESIS II WWW categories in the following graphic:

As a request from Mr. Corneliu Trisca-Rusu for this report we interrogated and classified only new web sites, appeared after December 1999, and the web sites which do not respond to December 1999 survey. This means a total number of 2790 web sites.

During the month of March, ESIS II ROMANIA team as a process of direct interrogation and classification of web sites obtained these figures.

* Romanian Statistical Yearbook 1998 edited by National Commission for Statistics (http://www.cns.ro).
** There are eight ministries with web pages but one of them do not have his own web site but to an ISP.
*** http://www.guv.ro is the official WWW site of the Romanian Government.

We found 2667 commercial / other category sites, 1416 of them did not respond and 363 are under construction (not defined yet).

The number of web sites is steadily growing. From these, a significant trend is that of the web sites in the regional and local authorities area and educational area (high schools and universities as well as primary and secondary schools).

The terms SOA, COUNTED DUPL, REAL, CHANGE are explained below:

• SOA the number of delegated domains (zones) found below this top-level domain. In short this will be the number of subdomains below this top-level domain that run a separate nameserver.
• COUNTED the number of hosts (machines) found under this top level domain Hosts like "loopback", "localhost" etc are excluded from this number (in DNS terms, only A records are examined).
• DUPL the number of duplicate hosts (machines) found under this top-level domain. These are hosts that appear with more than one name, but with the same address (CNAME records are skipped automatically, and do not fall into this category)
• REAL the COUNTED number of machines minus the DUPL number of machines
• CHANGE change of the REAL count for this top level domain compared to the previous count (counts are usually performed once a month, at the end of each month, therefore this figure represents the increase over the last month)