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	August 2008 Count	August 2008 %	July 2008 Count	July 2008 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	105,441	22.64	101,988	22.64	0.02
Verisign	89,611	19.25	88,098	19.56	-1.59
Thawte	54,689	11.75	53,182	11.81	-0.51
Comodo Limited	40,462	8.69	39,138	8.69	0.02
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	32,848	7.05	30,318	6.73	4.82
Unknown	11,592	2.49	11,077	2.46	1.25
DigiCert	10,533	2.26	9,989	2.22	2.02
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	9,565	2.05	9,548	2.12	-3.08
Network Solutions L.L.C.	8,147	1.75	7,824	1.74	0.74
GlobalSign nv-sa	5,294	1.14	5,040	1.12	1.62
Entrust.net	5,206	1.12	5,057	1.12	-0.40
GlobalSign	5,019	1.08	4,684	1.04	3.67
Comodo CA Limited	4,745	1.02	4,535	1.01	1.23
SWsoft, Inc.	4,223	0.91	4,144	0.92	-1.41
SomeOrganization	3,628	0.78	3,542	0.79	-0.90
Cybertrust	2,556	0.55	2,465	0.55	0.32
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,254	0.48	2,153	0.48	1.29
SecureTrust Corporation	2,235	0.48	2,120	0.47	2.00
SECOM Trust.net	2,170	0.47	2,152	0.48	-2.44
p1atin.de	1,990	0.43	1,812	0.40	6.25
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,836	0.39	1,833	0.41	-3.09
Root CA	1,599	0.34	1,539	0.34	0.52
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	1,517	0.33	1,472	0.33	-0.29
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,473	0.32	1,459	0.32	-2.32
AddTrust AB	1,321	0.28	1,330	0.30	-3.91
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,297	0.28	1,264	0.28	-0.72
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	1,231	0.26	1,199	0.27	-0.67
U.S. Government	1,088	0.23	1,068	0.24	-1.44
COMODO CA Limited	1,083	0.23	1,011	0.22	3.64
CAcert Inc.	706	0.15	679	0.15	0.60
Akamai Technologies Inc	669	0.14	649	0.14	-0.27
ispgateway	583	0.13	566	0.13	-0.34
Alpha	581	0.12	504	0.11	11.53
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	557	0.12	546	0.12	-1.30
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	539	0.12	517	0.11	0.87
Firstserver, Inc.	481	0.10	452	0.10	2.96
Earthlink Inc	418	0.09	425	0.09	-4.84
GTE Corporation	412	0.09	407	0.09	-2.06
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	379	0.08	360	0.08	1.86
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	364	0.08	290	0.06	21.44
OCC	346	0.07	343	0.08	-2.40
Firstserver, Inc	343	0.07	338	0.08	-1.82
Servision Inc.	335	0.07	290	0.06	11.76
StartCom Ltd.	319	0.07	315	0.07	-2.02
suresupport.com	303	0.07	300	0.07	-2.28
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	268	0.06	262	0.06	-1.04
TDC	250	0.05	248	0.06	-2.47
thawte, Inc.	242	0.05	229	0.05	2.24
BlueHost.Com	230	0.05	224	0.05	-0.66
Sonera	224	0.05	215	0.05	0.80
TBS INTERNET	219	0.05	207	0.05	2.36
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	213	0.05	195	0.04	5.68
RegisterFly.com, inc.	204	0.04	197	0.04	0.19
Digi-Sign Limited	203	0.04	193	0.04	1.76
Positive Software Corporation	201	0.04	211	0.05	-7.84
WTF ALFA	193	0.04	187	0.04	-0.15
Cybertrust Inc	193	0.04	173	0.04	7.93
FNMT	180	0.04	173	0.04	0.66
Apache HTTP Server	178	0.04	164	0.04	5.01
RM	164	0.04	157	0.03	1.06
Parallels	158	0.03	125	0.03	22.29
ICP-Brasil	148	0.03	142	0.03	0.84
Positive Software	145	0.03	144	0.03	-2.58
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	144	0.03	136	0.03	2.44
Default Web Site	138	0.03	131	0.03	1.92
CNRS	138	0.03	132	0.03	1.15
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	134	0.03	123	0.03	5.40
50 below	131	0.03	131	0.03	-3.25
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	118	0.03	113	0.03	1.03
none	106	0.02	96	0.02	6.83
Digital Signature Trust Co.	106	0.02	105	0.02	-2.33
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo	105	0.02	101	0.02	0.58
New Dream Network, LLC.	103	0.02	101	0.02	-1.34
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	103	0.02	103	0.02	-3.25
My Company Ltd	102	0.02	93	0.02	6.11
InterWorx	101	0.02	102	0.02	-4.20
Sun Microsystems Inc	100	0.02	101	0.02	-4.21
MULTICERT-CA	99	0.02	81	0.02	18.25
ICS_TREE	99	0.02	98	0.02	-2.26
TNC	97	0.02	83	0.02	13.07
GeoTrust Inc	97	0.02	94	0.02	-0.16
SonicWALL, Inc.	94	0.02	85	0.02	6.99
ServerAdmin 24	94	0.02	83	0.02	9.57
Entrust, Inc.	93	0.02	87	0.02	3.42
GlobalSign Inc	89	0.02	87	0.02	-1.03
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	88	0.02	86	0.02	-1.00
IceWarp Software	87	0.02	83	0.02	1.41
OptimumSSL CA	85	0.02	87	0.02	-5.47
National Institute of Informatics	79	0.02	72	0.02	6.16
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo	78	0.02	74	0.02	1.98
Apache Friends	77	0.02	77	0.02	-3.25
WebMoney Transfer	71	0.02	67	0.01	2.53
Etisalat	69	0.01	66	0.01	1.15
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus	67	0.01	62	0.01	4.55
Ipswitch,Inc.	64	0.01	63	0.01	-1.72
University of Washington	63	0.01	65	0.01	-6.23
Plesk, Inc.	63	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd.	63	0.01	66	0.01	-7.65
IceWarp Ltd.	62	0.01	59	0.01	1.67
CENTRAL SECURITY PATROLS CO., LTD.	61	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.