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Certificate Authority Market Share Report
February 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.

Entrust.net CA Certificate Historical Market Share Graph

CA January 2008
Count
January 2008
%
December 2007
Count
December 2007
%
Growth
%
Equifax (Geotrust)90,94023.1483,35522.144.55
Verisign83,64021.2982,58521.93-2.95
Thawte49,22412.5348,22412.81-2.18
Comodo Limited33,1508.4431,8788.47-0.35
GoDaddy.com, Inc.18,2054.6315,9214.239.58
Starfield Technologies, Inc.11,0622.8211,6733.10-9.19
Unknown9,6602.469,3152.47-0.62
DigiCert7,1761.836,7041.782.57
Network Solutions L.L.C.5,9611.525,6581.500.96
Entrust.net4,5201.154,4021.17-1.60
SWsoft, Inc.3,8340.983,7010.98-0.73
SomeOrganization3,4150.873,3250.88-1.58
Comodo CA Limited2,9800.762,7240.724.83
AddTrust AB2,5490.652,8010.74-12.79
GlobalSign nv-sa2,5150.642,2640.606.45
SECOM Trust.net2,0590.521,9900.53-0.85
GlobalSign1,9320.491,7820.473.89
Snake Oil, Ltd1,8920.481,8740.50-3.25
XRamp Security Services Inc1,7470.441,8310.49-8.57
IPS Certification Authority s.l.1,7080.431,6040.432.04
Cybertrust1,6790.431,5800.421.83
Root CA1,3850.351,3280.35-0.06
SecureTrust Corporation1,2570.321,1240.307.17
Secure Business Services, Inc.1,1660.301,1150.300.21
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH1,1370.291,1030.29-1.22
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.1,0630.271,0120.270.66
U.S. Government1,0170.268820.2310.50
COMODO CA Limited5980.155530.153.63
CAcert Inc.5280.134940.132.42
Earthlink Inc4990.134980.13-3.98
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH4910.124710.13-0.10
ispgateway4840.124730.13-1.94
Akamai Technologies Inc4500.114200.112.67
p1atin.de4040.102550.0751.82
Firstserver, Inc.3820.103720.10-1.60
GTE Corporation3690.093620.10-2.32
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.3340.083240.09-1.21
OCC3270.083160.08-0.84
Positive Software Corporation3000.083230.09-11.00
Firstserver, Inc2970.082850.08-0.14
suresupport.com2650.0700.00N/A
StartCom Ltd.2410.062230.063.56
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority2280.062230.06-2.02
BlueHost.Com2260.062270.06-4.59
TDC2250.062190.06-1.55
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.2100.051990.051.12
Digi-Sign Limited1970.051920.05-1.68
RegisterFly.com, inc.1880.051920.05-6.17
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd1830.051670.045.01
Alpha1680.041290.0324.80
TBS INTERNET1650.041490.046.12
RM1590.041600.04-4.77
Sonera1580.041510.040.27
Apache HTTP Server1460.041440.04-2.84
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd.1360.031360.04-4.17
Positive Software1340.031380.04-6.95
WTF ALFA1310.031210.033.75
50 below1290.031290.03-4.17
thawte, Inc.1230.031040.0313.33
FNMT1230.031130.034.31
ICP-Brasil1200.031200.03-4.17
CNRS1190.031170.03-2.53
Default Web Site1180.031150.03-1.67
Your Name Webhosting1120.031630.04-34.16
ICS_TREE1030.031040.03-5.09
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt1020.03990.03-1.27
Cybertrust Inc1000.03860.0211.43
GlobalSign Inc980.02990.03-5.14
Digital Signature Trust Co.980.02970.03-3.18
Comodo Japan Inc.950.02960.03-5.17
ChainedSSL950.02920.02-1.05
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.940.02870.023.54
MULTICERT-CA940.02900.020.09
Plesk, Inc.930.021080.03-17.48
My Company Ltd930.02930.02-4.17
Unicert Brasil Certificadora910.02810.027.66
New Dream Network, LLC.870.02860.02-3.06
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH850.02800.021.82
Sun Microsystems Inc830.02840.02-5.31
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.790.02730.023.70
FreeSSL750.02800.02-10.16
InterWorx730.02710.02-1.47
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo710.02610.0211.54
IceWarp Software680.02760.02-14.26
Ipswitch,Inc.660.02700.02-9.65
Plesk Inc.650.02630.02-1.13
OptimumSSL CA630.02610.02-1.03
CRU600.02650.02-11.54
Apache Friends590.02550.012.80
XYZ Corporation580.01540.012.93
WebMoney Transfer570.01650.02-15.97
University of Maryland570.01530.013.06
"PositiveSoftwareCorporation"570.01540.011.15
University of Washington560.01530.011.25
Etisalat560.01520.013.20
SonicWALL, Inc.550.0100.00N/A
GeoTrust Inc540.0100.00N/A
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus540.01560.01-7.59
SiteGround LLC530.01500.011.58
Japan Certification Services, Inc.530.01530.01-4.17

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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