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	June 2008 Count	June 2008 %	May 2008 Count	May 2008 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	100,526	22.80	99,335	23.08	-1.23
Verisign	87,296	19.80	86,428	20.08	-1.42
Thawte	52,648	11.94	51,863	12.05	-0.93
Comodo Limited	38,311	8.69	37,247	8.66	0.38
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	27,860	6.32	25,756	5.98	5.57
Unknown	10,924	2.48	10,641	2.47	0.19
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	9,951	2.26	10,195	2.37	-4.74
DigiCert	9,390	2.13	8,949	2.08	2.41
Network Solutions L.L.C.	7,478	1.70	7,166	1.67	1.85
Entrust.net	4,964	1.13	4,879	1.13	-0.70
GlobalSign nv-sa	4,497	1.02	4,049	0.94	8.39
Comodo CA Limited	4,248	0.96	3,998	0.93	3.70
GlobalSign	4,231	0.96	2,892	0.67	42.78
SWsoft, Inc.	4,192	0.95	4,193	0.97	-2.43
SomeOrganization	3,518	0.80	3,477	0.81	-1.25
Cybertrust	2,314	0.52	2,165	0.50	4.31
SECOM Trust.net	2,214	0.50	2,189	0.51	-1.29
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,099	0.48	2,016	0.47	1.61
SecureTrust Corporation	1,982	0.45	1,871	0.43	3.39
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,837	0.42	1,833	0.43	-2.19
p1atin.de	1,536	0.35	1,295	0.30	15.76
Root CA	1,530	0.35	1,527	0.35	-2.21
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,506	0.34	1,513	0.35	-2.86
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	1,405	0.32	1,345	0.31	1.95
AddTrust AB	1,401	0.32	1,479	0.34	-7.55
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,260	0.29	1,246	0.29	-1.31
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	1,206	0.27	1,192	0.28	-1.26
U.S. Government	1,041	0.24	1,050	0.24	-3.24
COMODO CA Limited	920	0.21	843	0.20	6.51
CAcert Inc.	665	0.15	623	0.14	4.18
Akamai Technologies Inc	618	0.14	563	0.13	7.13
ispgateway	546	0.12	536	0.12	-0.58
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	530	0.12	524	0.12	-1.29
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	460	0.10	429	0.10	4.65
Alpha	452	0.10	398	0.09	10.84
Earthlink Inc	443	0.10	445	0.10	-2.84
Firstserver, Inc.	436	0.10	420	0.10	1.31
GTE Corporation	398	0.09	385	0.09	0.89
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	347	0.08	287	0.07	18.00
OCC	340	0.08	332	0.08	-0.05
Firstserver, Inc	330	0.07	337	0.08	-4.43
StartCom Ltd.	291	0.07	270	0.06	5.19
suresupport.com	281	0.06	280	0.07	-2.06
Positive Software Corporation	255	0.06	264	0.06	-5.73
TDC	248	0.06	244	0.06	-0.80
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	245	0.06	240	0.06	-0.37
BlueHost.Com	226	0.05	221	0.05	-0.20
thawte, Inc.	205	0.05	178	0.04	12.40
Sonera	203	0.05	195	0.05	1.60
TBS INTERNET	199	0.05	181	0.04	7.30
RegisterFly.com, inc.	194	0.04	196	0.05	-3.40
Digi-Sign Limited	194	0.04	198	0.05	-4.38
Servision Inc.	190	0.04	145	0.03	27.88
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	180	0.04	252	0.06	-30.29
WTF ALFA	175	0.04	165	0.04	3.51
RM	170	0.04	165	0.04	0.55
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	169	0.04	108	0.03	52.72
Cybertrust Inc	165	0.04	160	0.04	0.65
Apache HTTP Server	165	0.04	159	0.04	1.28
FNMT	159	0.04	148	0.03	4.85
Positive Software	141	0.03	143	0.03	-3.77
ICP-Brasil	136	0.03	127	0.03	4.51
50 below	131	0.03	131	0.03	-2.40
Default Web Site	130	0.03	132	0.03	-3.88
CNRS	129	0.03	128	0.03	-1.64
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	127	0.03	114	0.03	8.73
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	114	0.03	106	0.02	4.96
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	107	0.02	106	0.02	-1.48
ICS_TREE	106	0.02	104	0.02	-0.53
Digital Signature Trust Co.	99	0.02	106	0.02	-8.85
Sun Microsystems Inc	98	0.02	94	0.02	1.75
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo	98	0.02	95	0.02	0.68
New Dream Network, LLC.	97	0.02	94	0.02	0.71
MULTICERT-CA	95	0.02	97	0.02	-4.42
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	94	0.02	92	0.02	-0.28
My Company Ltd	93	0.02	91	0.02	-0.26
InterWorx	89	0.02	87	0.02	-0.16
OptimumSSL CA	87	0.02	83	0.02	2.30
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	86	0.02	87	0.02	-3.53
SonicWALL, Inc.	84	0.02	81	0.02	1.21
GlobalSign Inc	83	0.02	82	0.02	-1.21
GeoTrust Inc	83	0.02	74	0.02	9.47
ServerAdmin 24	79	0.02	64	0.01	20.47
IceWarp Software	76	0.02	71	0.02	4.47
none	74	0.02	67	0.02	7.79
TNC	74	0.02	60	0.01	20.37
Entrust, Inc.	74	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Comodo Japan Inc.	74	0.02	77	0.02	-6.21
Plesk, Inc.	72	0.02	73	0.02	-3.74
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd.	72	0.02	83	0.02	-15.34
Apache Friends	69	0.02	72	0.02	-6.47
WebMoney Transfer	68	0.02	69	0.02	-3.82
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo	67	0.02	64	0.01	2.17
National Institute of Informatics	66	0.01	60	0.01	7.36
University of Washington	64	0.01	61	0.01	2.40
Ipswitch,Inc.	63	0.01	64	0.01	-3.93
IceWarp Ltd.	62	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus	61	0.01	61	0.01	-2.40
University of Maryland	59	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Etisalat	59	0.01	62	0.01	-7.13

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.