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	July 1999 Count	July 1999 %	June 1999 Count	June 1999 %	Growth %
Verisign	34,123	66.73	35,436	66.50	0.34
Thawte	12,389	24.23	13,004	24.41	-0.73
Snake Oil, Ltd	176	0.34	94	0.18	95.10
Esat Net	147	0.29	150	0.28	2.12
Web Hosting	140	0.27	119	0.22	22.59
BusinessNet Danmark	133	0.26	137	0.26	1.16
Slip.Net	118	0.23	123	0.23	-0.03
CETI s.c.	114	0.22	80	0.15	48.49
BelSign NV	74	0.14	75	0.14	2.81
Webmaster	72	0.14	108	0.20	-30.53
SGH Internet Division	65	0.13	69	0.13	-1.84
Franke & Partner	65	0.13	65	0.12	4.20
TAT GmbH	59	0.12	61	0.11	0.79
Onyx Internet	59	0.12	62	0.12	-0.84
i-dea	57	0.11	50	0.09	18.79
DeZines Web Hosting	52	0.10	54	0.10	0.34
Corpex Ltd	49	0.10	0	0.00	N/A
test-CA	45	0.09	49	0.09	-4.30
Nordwest.Net	42	0.08	47	0.09	-6.88
Marketing Factory Consulting GmbH	42	0.08	42	0.08	4.20
MBnet Networking Inc.	41	0.08	31	0.06	37.82
Indra's Net, Inc.	37	0.07	40	0.08	-3.61
Alleanza I.T.B.	36	0.07	38	0.07	-1.28
Inter Clear Service Ltd	32	0.06	39	0.07	-14.50
ANET St. Louis	31	0.06	31	0.06	4.20
Pointe Communications Corporation	29	0.06	32	0.06	-5.57
For Demo Purposes Only	29	0.06	29	0.05	4.20
Webkeepers Limited	27	0.05	27	0.05	4.20
Cybergate Webhosting	27	0.05	29	0.05	-2.98
University of Florida	26	0.05	0	0.00	N/A
Communique, Inc.	26	0.05	29	0.05	-6.58
Aktiv!NETZ Internet Presentations GmbH	25	0.05	25	0.05	4.20
NothinButNet LLC.	24	0.05	0	0.00	N/A
Covalent Technologies, Inc.	24	0.05	31	0.06	-19.33
Unknown	23	0.04	24	0.05	-0.14
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	23	0.04	23	0.04	4.20
Kommunikationsysteme ShE GmbH	23	0.04	24	0.05	-0.14
MakoLab	22	0.04	22	0.04	4.20
HAL interactive d.o.o.	22	0.04	22	0.04	4.20
the Internet Outlet	21	0.04	19	0.04	15.17
IndyWeb Inc.	21	0.04	21	0.04	4.20
ims	20	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
Superb Internet Corp.	19	0.04	20	0.04	-1.01
Sistema S.A	19	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
Powersurge Technologies, Inc.	19	0.04	19	0.04	4.20
Thawte Consulting	18	0.04	14	0.03	33.97
Entrust.net	18	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
Netland Internet Services	17	0.03	70	0.13	-74.69
My Company Ltd	17	0.03	18	0.03	-1.59
Rifin d.o.o.	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.20
Netlink, Inc.	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.20
Muenchenticket	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.20
MFM Communication Software, Inc.	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.20
KSI	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.20
Eunet Ireland	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.20
UUNET Internet Africa	15	0.03	16	0.03	-2.31
dgSoft Internet Sevices	14	0.03	16	0.03	-8.82
WorldSpice Technologies, Inc.	14	0.03	14	0.03	4.20
University of Economics and BA	14	0.03	14	0.03	4.20
UBZ	14	0.03	14	0.03	4.20
InterX Technologies	14	0.03	15	0.03	-2.74
IPS Seguridad CA	14	0.03	13	0.02	12.22
EUnet	14	0.03	14	0.03	4.20
Walrus Internet	13	0.03	15	0.03	-9.69
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	13	0.03	15	0.03	-9.69
Marketwizz Internet Solutions	13	0.03	13	0.02	4.20
Internet Solutions	13	0.03	14	0.03	-3.24
IP Ltd	13	0.03	13	0.02	4.20
GTE Corporation	13	0.03	12	0.02	12.89
CompuSource (Pty) Ltd	13	0.03	14	0.03	-3.24
CertiSign Certificadora Digital Ltda	13	0.03	12	0.02	12.89
CLS Internet Services GmbH	13	0.03	13	0.02	4.20
Monteuve	12	0.02	12	0.02	4.20
A+S Systemtechnik	12	0.02	12	0.02	4.20
Uni Regensburg	11	0.02	9	0.02	27.36
Tartu University	11	0.02	11	0.02	4.20
Fishnet NewMedia	11	0.02	12	0.02	-4.48
ACE	11	0.02	11	0.02	4.20
Web Anchor, Inc	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.20
Tver State University	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.20
QDnet ISP	10	0.02	9	0.02	15.78
OPTIMUS-Pro Sp. z o.o.	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.20
ITnet sp. z o.o.	10	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Digital Systems	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.20
Canadian Consulting & Online Services Inc.	10	0.02	11	0.02	-5.27
Baeurer Informationstechnik	10	0.02	11	0.02	-5.27
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.20
AS Matti Byrootehnika	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.20
Virtual Computer Ltd	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.20
Sexy-Eyes	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.20
QuakeNet Technologies	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.20
PAZ - Editora Multimedia, Lda	9	0.02	40	0.08	-76.55
Human Interaction snc	9	0.02	13	0.02	-27.86
Deutsche Telekom AG	9	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Xtended Internet	8	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Verio Northeast CA	8	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
VANZ Management GmbH	8	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
University of Oulu	8	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
U.S. Government	8	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
OKS	8	0.02	12	0.02	-30.53

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.