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	February 2019 Count	February 2019 %	January 2019 Count	January 2019 %	Growth %
COMODO CA Limited	1,240,758	28.50	1,247,861	29.41	-3.09
DigiCert	708,012	16.26	692,141	16.31	-0.30
Let's Encrypt	658,574	15.13	619,842	14.61	3.56
GlobalSign nv-sa	318,098	7.31	311,415	7.34	-0.44
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	238,399	5.48	296,601	6.99	-21.66
cPanel, Inc.	135,542	3.11	125,010	2.95	5.68
Unknown	115,283	2.65	111,297	2.62	0.96
Amazon	95,667	2.20	83,922	1.98	11.11
Sectigo Limited	72,608	1.67	0	0.00	N/A
Google Trust Services	55,396	1.27	54,332	1.28	-0.63
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	49,836	1.14	47,607	1.12	2.03
Internet2	32,396	0.74	31,934	0.75	-1.12
TERENA	31,088	0.71	30,714	0.72	-1.35
SomeOrganization	26,059	0.60	25,185	0.59	0.85
GeoTrust Inc.	26,057	0.60	28,549	0.67	-11.04
Microsoft Corporation	25,599	0.59	24,432	0.58	2.12
Entrust, Inc.	25,308	0.58	24,801	0.58	-0.54
ispgateway	25,083	0.58	24,244	0.57	0.84
Plesk	24,014	0.55	22,069	0.52	6.06
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	23,991	0.55	23,506	0.55	-0.52
none	22,321	0.51	21,319	0.50	2.05
Gandi	20,863	0.48	21,046	0.50	-3.38
Parallels	19,337	0.44	19,359	0.46	-2.64
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	16,208	0.37	15,556	0.37	1.55
Apache HTTP Server	14,564	0.33	14,541	0.34	-2.38
Odin	14,124	0.32	13,874	0.33	-0.78
SecureCore	14,033	0.32	12,287	0.29	11.32
Network Solutions L.L.C.	13,605	0.31	13,652	0.32	-2.87
home.pl S.A.	13,061	0.30	12,964	0.31	-1.80
QuoVadis Limited	11,664	0.27	11,535	0.27	-1.44
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	11,144	0.26	10,919	0.26	-0.53
NN.RU	8,883	0.20	8,883	0.21	-2.53
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	8,463	0.19	8,253	0.19	-0.05
Gehirn Inc.	7,054	0.16	5,711	0.13	20.39
Actalis S.p.A./03358520967	6,820	0.16	6,379	0.15	4.20
nazwa.pl sp. z o.o.	5,743	0.13	5,464	0.13	2.44
Corporation Service Company	5,402	0.12	5,083	0.12	3.58
StartCom Ltd.	5,401	0.12	5,578	0.13	-5.63
Webhosting	5,364	0.12	4,923	0.12	6.20
DreamHost	5,067	0.12	4,168	0.10	18.49
io.ua	4,990	0.11	4,949	0.12	-1.73
Verein zur Foerderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e. V.	4,900	0.11	4,229	0.10	12.93
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	4,741	0.11	4,078	0.10	13.31
Trust Provider B.V.	4,482	0.10	4,469	0.11	-2.25
The Trustico Group Ltd	4,458	0.10	4,121	0.10	5.44
thawte, Inc.	4,314	0.10	5,144	0.12	-18.26
WebSupport, s.r.o.	4,257	0.10	4,055	0.10	2.32
Hosting Ukraine LLC	3,942	0.09	3,806	0.09	0.95
Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd.	3,621	0.08	3,376	0.08	4.54
Nijimo, Inc.	3,503	0.08	3,569	0.08	-4.34
GeoTrust, Inc.	3,334	0.08	3,474	0.08	-6.46
HydrantID (Avalanche Cloud Corporation)	3,331	0.08	3,026	0.07	7.29
Pizza-Taxi.de GmbH / CA	3,317	0.08	3,306	0.08	-2.21
TrustAsia Technologies, Inc.	2,948	0.07	3,557	0.08	-19.22
Symantec Corporation	2,859	0.07	3,391	0.08	-17.83
DOMENY.PL sp. z o.o	2,797	0.06	2,796	0.07	-2.50
KDDI Web Communications Inc.	2,575	0.06	2,958	0.07	-15.15
SSL.com	2,423	0.06	5,868	0.14	-59.75
SH	2,348	0.05	2,220	0.05	3.09
Default Company Ltd	2,215	0.05	2,250	0.05	-4.05
National Institute of Informatics	2,195	0.05	2,149	0.05	-0.45
WEDOS Internet, a.s.	2,173	0.05	2,046	0.05	3.52
CloudFlare, Inc.	2,103	0.05	1,988	0.05	3.10
Acme Co	2,052	0.05	1,406	0.03	42.25
Comodo Limited	2,015	0.05	2,009	0.05	-2.24
T-Systems International GmbH	1,896	0.04	1,865	0.04	-0.91
KAGOYA-JAPAN	1,889	0.04	1,806	0.04	1.95
Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP	1,880	0.04	1,830	0.04	0.13
TAIWAN-CA	1,865	0.04	1,768	0.04	2.81
SwissSign AG	1,826	0.04	1,794	0.04	-0.80
Test Self SSL Company	1,811	0.04	1,751	0.04	0.81
XX	1,736	0.04	1,673	0.04	1.14
Government of Korea	1,597	0.04	1,628	0.04	-4.39
World4You Internet Services GmbH	1,458	0.03	1,344	0.03	5.73
WoSign CA Limited	1,445	0.03	1,543	0.04	-8.72
AC Camerfirma S.A.	1,411	0.03	1,405	0.03	-2.12
www.sprinthost.ru	1,351	0.03	1,283	0.03	2.63
MyCompany	1,341	0.03	1,319	0.03	-0.91
NetLock Kft.	1,304	0.03	1,314	0.03	-3.28
AffirmTrust	1,243	0.03	1,210	0.03	0.12
Mirohost	1,214	0.03	1,166	0.03	1.48
EUNETIC GmbH	1,205	0.03	1,153	0.03	1.86
UIC	1,169	0.03	1,169	0.03	-2.53
Buypass AS-983163327	1,127	0.03	1,069	0.03	2.75
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SL	1,100	0.03	948	0.02	13.09
Verisign	1,083	0.02	1,084	0.03	-2.62
CertCenter AG	989	0.02	899	0.02	7.22
dhosting.pl Sp. z o.o.	946	0.02	885	0.02	4.18
Comvive Servidores SL	843	0.02	810	0.02	1.44
Thawte, Inc.	811	0.02	860	0.02	-8.09
Globe Hosting, Inc.	761	0.02	715	0.02	3.74
U.S. Government	754	0.02	785	0.02	-6.38
Fiducia & GAD IT AG	739	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Equifax (Geotrust)	729	0.02	739	0.02	-3.85
KEYNECTIS	695	0.02	839	0.02	-19.26
OVH	686	0.02	645	0.02	3.66
Beijing Knownsec Information Technology Co., Ltd	666	0.02	666	0.02	-2.53
Dreamcommerce S.A.	656	0.02	538	0.01	18.84
DHIMYOTIS	608	0.01	603	0.01	-1.73
TBS INTERNET	604	0.01	601	0.01	-2.05

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.