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==Internet Domain Survey==
[[File:Internet Hosts Count log.svg|thumb|300px|Number of Internet hosts worldwide in 1970–2015<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.isc.org/solutions/survey/history |title=Internet host count history |publisher=Internet Systems Consortium |access-date=May 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518101749/http://www.isc.org/solutions/survey/history |archive-date=May 18, 2012 }}</ref>]]
The Internet Domain Survey searched the [[Domain name system|Domain Name System]] (DNS) to discover every Internet host. The survey began when only a few hundred hosts were Internet-linked.<ref name="isc_ids">{{cite web |url = https://www.isc.org/solutions/survey |title = ISC Internet Domain Survey |publisher = Internet Systems Consortium |access-date = 2009-04-11 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081117190806/https://www.isc.org/solutions/survey |archive-date = 2008-11-17 }}</ref> The earliest published reports, dated 1993, were performed by Network Wizards owner Mark K. Lottor. The Internet host count was {{val|1,313,000}} in January 1993 and {{val|1,062,660,523}} in the January 2017 survey.<ref name="isc_ids_2017_01">{{cite web |url = http://ftp.isc.org/www/survey/reports/current/ |title = Internet Domain Survey, January 2017 |publisher = Internet Systems Consortium |access-date = 2017-02-14 |archive-date = 2024-06-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240625184358/https://ftp.isc.org/www/survey/reports/current/ |url-status = live }}</ref>

ISC ended its sponsorship and publication of the [https://www.isc.org/survey/ Internet Domain Survey] in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=ISC ends Internet Domain Survey |date=26 August 2019 |url=https://www.isc.org/blogs/domain-survey-ends/ |publisher=Internet Systems Consortium |access-date=14 September 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629202222/https://www.isc.org/blogs/domain-survey-ends/ |url-status=live }}</ref>