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Certificate Authority Market Share Report
January 1st, 2008

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 December 2007
Count
December 2007
%
November 2007
Count
November 2007
%
Growth
%
Equifax (Geotrust)83,35522.1480,85521.911.01
Verisign82,58521.9381,11621.98-0.24
Thawte48,22412.8147,03712.750.46
Comodo Limited31,8788.4730,6498.311.91
GoDaddy.com, Inc.15,9214.2314,0313.8011.18
Starfield Technologies, Inc.11,6733.1011,8593.21-3.55
Unknown9,3152.478,9442.422.05
DigiCert6,7041.7810,9862.98-40.21
Network Solutions L.L.C.5,6581.505,3291.444.03
Entrust.net4,4021.174,2861.160.64
SWsoft, Inc.3,7010.983,5680.971.64
SomeOrganization3,3250.883,2950.89-1.12
AddTrust AB2,8010.743,0000.81-8.51
Comodo CA Limited2,7240.722,3950.6511.45
GlobalSign nv-sa2,2640.601,9860.5411.70
SECOM Trust.net1,9900.531,9030.522.46
Snake Oil, Ltd1,8740.501,8400.50-0.20
XRamp Security Services Inc1,8310.491,8680.51-3.96
GlobalSign1,7820.471,2190.3343.24
IPS Certification Authority s.l.1,6040.431,5290.412.79
Cybertrust1,5800.421,4560.396.33
Root CA1,3280.351,2660.342.78
SecureTrust Corporation1,1240.309720.2613.31
Secure Business Services, Inc.1,1150.301,0490.284.15
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH1,1030.291,0600.291.96
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.1,0120.279350.256.05
U.S. Government8820.238850.24-2.35
COMODO CA Limited5530.154910.1310.36
Earthlink Inc4980.135140.14-5.06
CAcert Inc.4940.134750.131.90
ispgateway4730.134610.120.54
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH4710.134500.122.56
Akamai Technologies Inc4200.114080.110.87
Firstserver, Inc.3720.103500.094.14
GTE Corporation3620.103510.101.06
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.3240.093100.082.41
Positive Software Corporation3230.093330.09-4.96
OCC3160.082990.083.56
Firstserver, Inc2850.082740.071.92
p1atin.de2550.072320.067.70
BlueHost.Com2270.062250.06-1.14
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority2230.062130.062.59
StartCom Ltd.2230.062230.06-2.01
TDC2190.062190.06-2.01
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.1990.051990.05-2.01
RegisterFly.com, inc.1920.051870.050.61
Digi-Sign Limited1920.051940.05-3.03
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd1670.041580.043.57
Your Name Webhosting1630.041600.04-0.18
RM1600.041490.045.22
Sonera1510.041420.044.20
TBS INTERNET1490.041480.04-1.35
Apache HTTP Server1440.041380.042.25
Positive Software1380.041330.041.67
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd.1360.041530.04-12.90
Alpha1290.03930.0335.91
50 below1290.0300.00N/A
WTF ALFA1210.031090.038.77
ICP-Brasil1200.031180.03-0.35
CNRS1170.031120.032.36
Default Web Site1150.031100.032.44
FNMT1130.031040.036.46
Plesk, Inc.1080.031130.03-6.35
thawte, Inc.1040.03960.036.15
ICS_TREE1040.03980.033.98
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt990.03920.025.44
GlobalSign Inc990.031000.03-2.99
Digital Signature Trust Co.970.03980.03-3.01
Comodo Japan Inc.960.031010.03-6.87
My Company Ltd930.02930.03-2.01
ChainedSSL920.021000.03-9.85
MULTICERT-CA900.02870.021.36
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.870.02840.021.48
New Dream Network, LLC.860.02810.024.03
Cybertrust Inc860.02710.0218.69
Sun Microsystems Inc840.02840.02-2.01
Unicert Brasil Certificadora810.02750.025.82
FreeSSL800.02830.02-5.56
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH800.02810.02-3.22
IceWarp Software760.02730.022.01
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.730.02700.022.18
InterWorx710.02710.02-2.01
Ipswitch,Inc.700.02660.023.92
WebMoney Transfer650.02630.021.10
CRU650.02670.02-4.94
Plesk Inc.630.02600.022.88
OptimumSSL CA610.02500.0119.54
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo610.02520.0114.94
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus560.01530.013.53
Apache Friends550.01610.02-11.65
XYZ Corporation540.01580.02-8.77
"PositiveSoftwareCorporation"540.01490.017.98
University of Washington530.01490.015.98
University of Maryland530.01470.0110.49
Japan Certification Services, Inc.530.01530.01-2.01
IceWarp Ltd.530.01490.015.98
Thawte Certification520.01490.013.98
Etisalat520.01480.016.15
SiteGround LLC500.01470.014.24
Postecom S.p.A.490.01480.010.03

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.



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