• 13M Domains by July 1998, 43.2M Hosts by Jan 1999
• 206 out of 246 countries connected
• Traffic growing between 100 and 1000 times annually.
• 75% of the traffic is WWW
• 3M web sites as of Jan 1999
• Orders of magnitude more in dark pages
• 8K ISPs, 4.7K in the US, 1998

2001
Tracking hosts/domains is so 20th century.
   It's not news, it's hard to measure,
 and the old numbers were wrong.
See Internet Measurement Infrastructure for current traffic measurements.