Report Description

This report, much like our original certs and CAs report, focuses on issuers of SSL enabling certificates found on web servers. Unlike our original report, however, this report has a couple of key differences to it:

• Reports on top 100 CAs. The original report only paid attention to the major CAs at the time the report was produced. This report lists the top 100 CAs for the month. You will find here many self-signing organizations such as universities, telecommunications firms, etc.
• Uses issuer name as identifier. Our original report only counted a certificate towards an organization if we were able to prove, by virtue of verifying the key, that the organization in question actually signed the certificate. This had a notable problem with it - we don't always have the public key of the CA. In at least one case, a CA doesn't make their public key available unless you sign a license agreement.

  This report doesn't have that problem, since it doesn't verify the signatures of the certificates it finds, it only uses the issuer Organization Name to uniquely identify the issuing CA.

CA	March 2000 Count	March 2000 %	February 2000 Count	February 2000 %	Growth %
Verisign	33,130	61.41	36,144	63.83	-3.79
Thawte	15,424	28.59	15,053	26.58	7.55
Snake Oil, Ltd	463	0.86	429	0.76	13.29
Entrust.net	149	0.28	135	0.24	15.85
Esat Net	138	0.26	141	0.25	2.73
test	113	0.21	112	0.20	5.91
BusinessNet Danmark	98	0.18	99	0.17	3.91
CETI s.c.	97	0.18	97	0.17	4.97
Unknown	94	0.17	93	0.16	6.10
Equifax Secure Inc	90	0.17	56	0.10	68.70
Corpex Ltd	86	0.16	88	0.16	2.58
BroadBand Communications, Inc.	84	0.16	86	0.15	2.53
Franke & Partner	64	0.12	64	0.11	4.97
Media3 Technologies L.L.C.	61	0.11	62	0.11	3.27
Netland Internet Services	59	0.11	59	0.10	4.97
PAZ - Editora Multimedia, Lda	57	0.11	59	0.10	1.41
Onyx Internet	51	0.09	38	0.07	40.88
TAT GmbH	49	0.09	16	0.03	221.46
Web Hosting	41	0.08	43	0.08	0.09
Nordwest.Net	39	0.07	39	0.07	4.97
DeZines Web Hosting	38	0.07	39	0.07	2.28
Vest Internett	36	0.07	36	0.06	4.97
Broadband Communications Inc.	36	0.07	36	0.06	4.97
BelSign NV	35	0.06	36	0.06	2.05
Indra's Net, Inc.	33	0.06	32	0.06	8.25
Deutsche Telekom AG	33	0.06	27	0.05	28.29
Webmaster	32	0.06	34	0.06	-1.21
Alleanza I.T.B.	32	0.06	32	0.06	4.97
Thawte Certification	31	0.06	28	0.05	16.21
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	31	0.06	26	0.05	25.15
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	30	0.06	31	0.05	1.58
CyberGate Hosting	29	0.05	31	0.05	-1.80
Marketing Factory Consulting GmbH	27	0.05	29	0.05	-2.27
CyberGate	27	0.05	30	0.05	-5.53
University of Florida	26	0.05	26	0.05	4.97
For Demo Purposes Only	25	0.05	25	0.04	4.97
ANET St. Louis	25	0.05	25	0.04	4.97
Superb Internet Corp.	23	0.04	23	0.04	4.97
Kommunikationssysteme ShE GmbH	23	0.04	23	0.04	4.97
the Internet Outlet	22	0.04	22	0.04	4.97
Random Corporation	22	0.04	15	0.03	53.95
Spekter Bergen AS	21	0.04	21	0.04	4.97
Inter Clear Service Ltd	21	0.04	21	0.04	4.97
Webkeepers Limited	20	0.04	19	0.03	10.49
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	20	0.04	21	0.04	-0.03
U.S. Government	19	0.04	18	0.03	10.80
Internet Marketing Services, LLC	19	0.04	19	0.03	4.97
WebNexus Communications	18	0.03	18	0.03	4.97
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	18	0.03	20	0.04	-5.53
Makolab s.c.	18	0.03	20	0.04	-5.53
IndyWeb Inc.	18	0.03	18	0.03	4.97
ChilNet S.A.	18	0.03	22	0.04	-14.12
Wantree Internet	17	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
Digital Visions	17	0.03	17	0.03	4.97
Powersurge Technologies, Inc.	16	0.03	17	0.03	-1.21
Netlink, Inc.	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.97
UUNET UK	15	0.03	14	0.02	12.47
EUNOC	15	0.03	15	0.03	4.97
Algarvenet	15	0.03	15	0.03	4.97
GlobalSign nv-sa	14	0.03	14	0.02	4.97
Covalent Technologies, Inc.	14	0.03	18	0.03	-18.36
UBZ	13	0.02	13	0.02	4.97
Kubota Systems Inc.	13	0.02	12	0.02	13.72
Fishnet NewMedia	13	0.02	13	0.02	4.97
CyberGate, Inc.	13	0.02	13	0.02	4.97
BizNet Communications, Inc.	13	0.02	15	0.03	-9.03
i-Planet	12	0.02	12	0.02	4.97
University of Economics and BA	12	0.02	12	0.02	4.97
Marketwizz Internet Solutions	12	0.02	13	0.02	-3.11
MFM Communication Software, Inc.	12	0.02	12	0.02	4.97
KPNQwest	12	0.02	12	0.02	4.97
Cybermarket	12	0.02	13	0.02	-3.11
i-dea	11	0.02	37	0.07	-68.79
ProSalg as	11	0.02	12	0.02	-3.78
My Company Ltd	11	0.02	16	0.03	-27.83
Monteuve	11	0.02	11	0.02	4.97
Internet Solutions	11	0.02	11	0.02	4.97
dgSoft Internet Sevices	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.97
WorldSpice Technologies, Inc.	10	0.02	11	0.02	-4.57
Webit Marketing Inc	10	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Walrus Internet	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.97
SCNC	10	0.02	11	0.02	-4.57
OKS	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.97
InterX Technologies	10	0.02	11	0.02	-4.57
A&S Systemtechnik	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.97
Schell Computersysteme	9	0.02	10	0.02	-5.53
National Institutes of Health	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.97
KSI	9	0.02	10	0.02	-5.53
IPS Seguridad CA	9	0.02	10	0.02	-5.53
Digital Systems	9	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Xtended Internet	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
University of Oulu	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
University of Helsinki	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Uni Regensburg	8	0.01	9	0.02	-6.70
Swisskey AG	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
QDnet ISP	8	0.01	9	0.02	-6.70
Netalia Internet Ltd	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
NECTEC	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Media3 Inc	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Extend.net	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A

Note: Readers are cautioned that the Growth percentages are based on a CA's market share penetration rather than the absolute number of certificates we detected. Thus, it is possible for the number of certificates to increase, while the growth is actually a negative value.