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	January 2007 Count	January 2007 %	December 2006 Count	December 2006 %	Growth %
Verisign	77,885	25.26	77,306	25.64	-1.47
Equifax (Geotrust)	64,977	21.07	63,222	20.97	0.52
Thawte	42,840	13.89	42,163	13.98	-0.63
Comodo Limited	25,003	8.11	0	0.00	N/A
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	14,728	4.78	13,688	4.54	5.23
Unknown	7,135	2.31	6,913	2.29	0.94
DigiCert	5,771	1.87	5,222	1.73	8.08
AddTrust AB	5,155	1.67	5,389	1.79	-6.45
Entrust.net	4,246	1.38	4,255	1.41	-2.41
Network Solutions L.L.C.	3,241	1.05	3,017	1.00	5.06
SomeOrganization	3,214	1.04	3,260	1.08	-3.58
SWsoft, Inc.	2,908	0.94	2,874	0.95	-1.04
XRamp Security Services Inc	2,051	0.67	1,965	0.65	2.08
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,928	0.63	1,934	0.64	-2.50
U.S. Government	1,380	0.45	1,379	0.46	-2.13
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	1,076	0.35	1,040	0.34	1.19
Root CA	970	0.31	946	0.31	0.28
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	941	0.31	927	0.31	-0.72
GlobalSign nv-sa	875	0.28	855	0.28	0.09
SECOM Trust.net	812	0.26	700	0.23	13.45
Positive Software Corporation	687	0.22	711	0.24	-5.50
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd.	589	0.19	588	0.19	-2.03
Earthlink Inc	588	0.19	544	0.18	5.71
Cybertrust	379	0.12	337	0.11	9.99
ispgateway	375	0.12	374	0.12	-1.94
Comodo CA Limited	339	0.11	231	0.08	43.53
Secure Business Services, Inc.	332	0.11	266	0.09	22.07
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	315	0.10	272	0.09	13.26
Comodo Japan Inc.	299	0.10	298	0.10	-1.87
GTE Corporation	283	0.09	277	0.09	-0.08
Firstserver, Inc.	242	0.08	222	0.07	6.61
Kubota Systems Inc.	210	0.07	207	0.07	-0.78
CAcert Inc.	207	0.07	181	0.06	11.85
ChainedSSL	200	0.06	196	0.06	-0.20
TDC	198	0.06	195	0.06	-0.69
OCC	194	0.06	181	0.06	4.83
Plesk, Inc.	172	0.06	168	0.06	0.13
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	161	0.05	142	0.05	10.89
StartCom Ltd.	158	0.05	148	0.05	4.41
BlueHost.Com	158	0.05	148	0.05	4.41
Apache HTTP Server	150	0.05	150	0.05	-2.20
Digi-Sign Limited	148	0.05	141	0.05	2.66
Positive Software	145	0.05	141	0.05	0.58
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	143	0.05	138	0.05	1.34
FreeSSL	134	0.04	152	0.05	-13.78
RM	130	0.04	123	0.04	3.37
Akamai	127	0.04	149	0.05	-16.64
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	126	0.04	123	0.04	0.19
Akamai Technologies Inc	125	0.04	93	0.03	31.45
NTT Communications Corporation	118	0.04	113	0.04	2.13
ICS_TREE	113	0.04	109	0.04	1.39
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	112	0.04	77	0.03	42.26
Your Name Webhosting	110	0.04	103	0.03	4.45
GlobalSign Inc	110	0.04	112	0.04	-3.95
Ipswitch,Inc.	107	0.03	107	0.04	-2.20
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	107	0.03	110	0.04	-4.87
Digital Signature Trust Co.	99	0.03	97	0.03	-0.18
CNRS	95	0.03	88	0.03	5.58
ICP-Brasil	87	0.03	84	0.03	1.29
Plesk Inc.	86	0.03	87	0.03	-3.32
Default Web Site	86	0.03	77	0.03	9.23
hosting	85	0.03	74	0.02	12.34
CRU	83	0.03	88	0.03	-7.76
IceWarp Software	79	0.03	79	0.03	-2.20
RegisterFly.com, inc.	75	0.02	48	0.02	52.81
FNMT	73	0.02	70	0.02	1.99
Thawte Certification	71	0.02	71	0.02	-2.20
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	71	0.02	69	0.02	0.64
TBS INTERNET	67	0.02	61	0.02	7.42
MULTICERT-CA	64	0.02	63	0.02	-0.65
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	60	0.02	56	0.02	4.79
Sun Microsystems Inc	60	0.02	61	0.02	-3.80
United Network Communications Co., Ltd.	59	0.02	59	0.02	-2.20
Sonera	59	0.02	56	0.02	3.04
New Dream Network, LLC.	59	0.02	53	0.02	8.87
Japan Certification Services, Inc.	59	0.02	59	0.02	-2.20
WebMoney Transfer	58	0.02	57	0.02	-0.48
Deutsche Telekom AG	57	0.02	81	0.03	-31.18
My Company Ltd	55	0.02	59	0.02	-8.83
XYZ Corporation	54	0.02	52	0.02	1.56
Temp Certificate!	51	0.02	53	0.02	-5.89
InterWorx	51	0.02	50	0.02	-0.24
TAIWAN-CA.COM	50	0.02	56	0.02	-12.68
CsideNet	48	0.02	45	0.01	4.32
SuSE Linux Web Server	47	0.02	38	0.01	20.96
Stunnel Developers Ltd	47	0.02	56	0.02	-17.92
Linkopings universitet	46	0.01	40	0.01	12.47
WOI-TBD	45	0.01	45	0.01	-2.20
Prvni certifikacni autorita a.s.	44	0.01	45	0.01	-4.37
NetArt	43	0.01	39	0.01	7.83
IceWarp Ltd.	42	0.01	56	0.02	-26.65
"PositiveSoftwareCorporation"	41	0.01	44	0.01	-8.87
University of Maryland	40	0.01	41	0.01	-4.58
Equifax Secure Inc	39	0.01	42	0.01	-9.19
Carnegie Mellon University	39	0.01	42	0.01	-9.19
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus	39	0.01	38	0.01	0.37
University of Washington	38	0.01	38	0.01	-2.20
S1 Corporation	38	0.01	38	0.01	-2.20
HostGator	38	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Etisalat	37	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.