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 only uses the issuer Organization Name to uniquely identify the issuing CA.

CA	August 2004 Count	August 2004 %	July 2004 Count	July 2004 %	Growth %
Verisign	70,586	37.68	70,617	38.01	-0.86
Thawte	35,090	18.73	35,032	18.85	-0.65
Equifax (Geotrust)	29,058	15.51	28,760	15.48	0.22
Comodo Limited	13,746	7.34	13,302	7.16	2.50
SomeOrganization	2,755	1.47	2,791	1.50	-2.09
Entrust.net	2,482	1.32	2,445	1.32	0.69
Snake Oil, Ltd	2,302	1.23	2,313	1.24	-1.28
The USERTRUST Network	1,547	0.83	1,412	0.76	8.67
Unknown	1,349	0.72	1,272	0.68	5.19
U.S. Government	1,286	0.69	1,299	0.70	-1.80
FreeSSL	831	0.44	814	0.44	1.26
SWsoft, Inc.	725	0.39	649	0.35	10.80
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	584	0.31	540	0.29	7.27
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	515	0.27	491	0.26	4.04
Plesk, Inc.	506	0.27	515	0.28	-2.55
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	392	0.21	313	0.17	24.22
GlobalSign nv-sa	376	0.20	360	0.19	3.60
XRamp Security Services Inc	347	0.19	259	0.14	32.89
Plesk Inc.	259	0.14	258	0.14	-0.43
Deutsche Telekom AG	250	0.13	205	0.11	20.96
Ipswitch,Inc.	218	0.12	232	0.12	-6.80
Baltimore Technologies Japan Co.,Ltd.	171	0.09	169	0.09	0.36
ispgateway	159	0.08	146	0.08	8.02
GTE Corporation	123	0.07	119	0.06	2.52
Thawte Certification	118	0.06	123	0.07	-4.84
Kubota Systems Inc.	115	0.06	113	0.06	0.94
Equifax Secure Inc	108	0.06	117	0.06	-8.44
Root CA	103	0.05	90	0.05	13.52
IceWarp Software	101	0.05	91	0.05	10.09
Apache HTTP Server	100	0.05	80	0.04	23.99
Digital Signature Trust Co.	91	0.05	90	0.05	0.29
TDC	84	0.04	75	0.04	11.09
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	79	0.04	81	0.04	-3.26
Positive Software	70	0.04	73	0.04	-4.89
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	66	0.04	69	0.04	-5.12
Akamai	64	0.03	56	0.03	13.36
United Network Communications Co., Ltd.	60	0.03	59	0.03	0.87
XYZ Corporation	59	0.03	60	0.03	-2.47
CsideNet	54	0.03	52	0.03	3.00
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	52	0.03	51	0.03	1.13
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	51	0.03	53	0.03	-4.55
Advanced Extranet Server	51	0.03	54	0.03	-6.32
OCC	47	0.03	42	0.02	11.00
Azero	47	0.03	47	0.03	-0.81
ICS_TREE	46	0.02	45	0.02	1.39
Your Name Webhosting	44	0.02	37	0.02	17.95
WebMoney Transfer	42	0.02	41	0.02	1.61
KICA	40	0.02	38	0.02	4.41
Beocity	40	0.02	40	0.02	-0.81
Webmin Software	39	0.02	40	0.02	-3.29
University of Florida	39	0.02	38	0.02	1.80
SCNC	39	0.02	39	0.02	-0.81
CETI	39	0.02	41	0.02	-5.65
Sun Cobalt	37	0.02	36	0.02	1.94
Communitymusician	36	0.02	37	0.02	-3.49
Sun Microsystems Inc	35	0.02	32	0.02	8.49
CNRS	35	0.02	34	0.02	2.11
Stalker Software, Inc.	32	0.02	32	0.02	-0.81
Hurricane Electric Internet Services	32	0.02	32	0.02	-0.81
Stunnel Developers Ltd	31	0.02	30	0.02	2.49
NeoNova B.V.	31	0.02	31	0.02	-0.81
Japan Certification Services, Inc.	31	0.02	31	0.02	-0.81
MULTICERT-CA	30	0.02	32	0.02	-7.01
UniCERT Brasil Certificadora	28	0.01	27	0.01	2.86
Temp Certificate!	28	0.01	25	0.01	11.09
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	28	0.01	26	0.01	6.82
cv. Candi Internet	27	0.01	28	0.02	-4.35
University of Maryland	27	0.01	28	0.02	-4.35
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	27	0.01	26	0.01	3.00
RM	27	0.01	27	0.01	-0.81
domainsofnote.com	26	0.01	26	0.01	-0.81
PVT a.s.	26	0.01	23	0.01	12.13
Franke & Partner	26	0.01	26	0.01	-0.81
Ensim Corporation	26	0.01	26	0.01	-0.81
pair Networks	25	0.01	24	0.01	3.32
My Company Ltd	25	0.01	23	0.01	7.81
Carnegie Mellon University	25	0.01	23	0.01	7.81
Audkenni hf.	25	0.01	23	0.01	7.81
Your Organization	24	0.01	22	0.01	8.21
ICP-Brasil	24	0.01	30	0.02	-20.65
FNMT	24	0.01	23	0.01	3.50
Tele Danmark	23	0.01	26	0.01	-12.26
CRU	23	0.01	23	0.01	-0.81
ROOT	22	0.01	22	0.01	-0.81
Pro Futuro S.A.	22	0.01	22	0.01	-0.81
Postecom s.p.a.	22	0.01	21	0.01	3.91
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.	22	0.01	21	0.01	3.91
Aaex Corp.	22	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
beTRUSTed	21	0.01	20	0.01	4.15
Hongkong Post	21	0.01	20	0.01	4.15
Etisalat	21	0.01	22	0.01	-5.32
DNS Anonym	21	0.01	22	0.01	-5.32
1&1 Internet Limited	21	0.01	21	0.01	-0.81
University of Helsinki	20	0.01	21	0.01	-5.54
SCANDTRUST AB	20	0.01	19	0.01	4.41
FAS	20	0.01	20	0.01	-0.81
Deutsches Forschungsnetz	20	0.01	21	0.01	-5.54
CFC	20	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
DFN-CERT Services GmbH	19	0.01	19	0.01	-0.81
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	18	0.01	18	0.01	-0.81

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.