ISC's measurements show that the Internet currently 109,574,429
"advertised" connected computers (hosts) in 230 countries and
territories. Thirteen additional countries and territories were
listed in the Domain Name System, but no hosts were discovered
under those domains. Because of the unknown and potentially
unlimited numbers of multiuser computers and network or
application gateways, it is not possible to correlate any of
this information with the number of end users.

• The figure of 109 million hosts represents a significant
  new benchmark for the number of Internet hosts. The current
  annual growth rate now stands at 51% - within the 46-67 %
  rates seen over the past two years.
• It shows continued strong exponential growth, with the
  100 million host barrier being crossed in late 2000. If
  the same growth rate is sustained, the Internet would
  cross the 1 billion host mark in mid 2005.
• The largest domain is COM, jumping 7.8 million hosts
  since January to a new high of 36.3 million hosts.
  That represents a current annualized growth rate of
  32%. As a percentage of the entire Internet, the COM
  hostcount stayed about the same at 33.2% of all Internet
  hosts.
• The number of hosts in the NET domain - which is
  heavily used by ISPs for dialup customers - remained the
  fastest growing of all the large domains, expanding at
  an annual growth rate of 45% to 30.8 million hosts.
• The Internet is now expanding at the rate of 63 new
  hosts and 11 new domains per minute worldwide.
• Among major country domains, there were an especially
  notable increases in the number of hosts in Hong Kong,
  Argentina, and Portugal.