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	July 2012 Count	July 2012 %	June 2012 Count	June 2012 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	249,079	22.40	244,959	22.43	-0.15
GeoTrust, Inc.	147,632	13.27	138,692	12.70	4.53
Verisign	91,403	8.22	91,663	8.39	-2.08
COMODO CA Limited	64,212	5.77	59,994	5.49	5.10
Thawte, Inc.	62,169	5.59	60,803	5.57	0.41
DigiCert	48,690	4.38	47,215	4.32	1.27
GeoTrust Inc.	43,691	3.93	42,699	3.91	0.48
Equifax (Geotrust)	33,367	3.00	40,022	3.66	-18.13
Unknown	30,282	2.72	29,962	2.74	-0.75
GlobalSign nv-sa	30,151	2.71	29,070	2.66	1.85
Comodo CA Limited	26,168	2.35	26,767	2.45	-4.00
Comodo Limited	25,501	2.29	25,998	2.38	-3.68
Network Solutions L.L.C.	23,025	2.07	22,624	2.07	-0.06
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	21,057	1.89	20,382	1.87	1.45
Entrust, Inc.	14,374	1.29	14,045	1.29	0.50
GlobalSign	13,528	1.22	13,882	1.27	-4.30
TERENA	11,086	1.00	10,752	0.98	1.25
StartCom Ltd.	9,879	0.89	9,436	0.86	2.81
CAcert Inc.	9,777	0.88	7,904	0.72	21.47
SecureTrust Corporation	8,983	0.81	9,080	0.83	-2.85
Thawte	8,822	0.79	10,053	0.92	-13.82
AlphaSSL	7,968	0.72	7,456	0.68	4.94
Internet2	6,735	0.61	6,256	0.57	5.72
Parallels	5,590	0.50	5,503	0.50	-0.25
Akamai Technologies Inc	5,334	0.48	5,148	0.47	1.75
SomeOrganization	5,199	0.47	5,095	0.47	0.20
Volusion, Inc.	4,495	0.40	4,243	0.39	4.03
GeoTrust Inc	3,855	0.35	3,670	0.34	3.15
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	3,839	0.35	3,815	0.35	-1.18
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	2,900	0.26	2,889	0.26	-1.43
thawte, Inc.	2,559	0.23	2,515	0.23	-0.08
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	2,390	0.21	2,311	0.21	1.56
Google Inc	2,256	0.20	2,182	0.20	1.53
Alpha	2,098	0.19	2,326	0.21	-11.43
Servision Inc.	2,018	0.18	1,993	0.18	-0.57
Root CA	1,871	0.17	1,871	0.17	-1.80
SWsoft, Inc.	1,585	0.14	1,657	0.15	-6.07
GTE Corporation	1,451	0.13	1,476	0.14	-3.46
U.S. Government	1,435	0.13	1,406	0.13	0.23
Cybertrust Inc	1,402	0.13	1,367	0.13	0.71
QuoVadis Limited	1,311	0.12	1,296	0.12	-0.66
GANDI SAS	1,266	0.11	1,206	0.11	3.09
ispgateway	1,199	0.11	1,170	0.11	0.63
TC TrustCenter GmbH	1,150	0.10	1,186	0.11	-4.78
none	1,127	0.10	1,072	0.10	3.24
Register.com	1,127	0.10	1,111	0.10	-0.39
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	1,060	0.10	1,054	0.10	-1.24
UIC	977	0.09	0	0.00	N/A
T-Systems International GmbH	914	0.08	907	0.08	-1.04
Government of Korea	892	0.08	863	0.08	1.50
SECOM Trust.net	858	0.08	905	0.08	-6.90
Snake Oil, Ltd	852	0.08	877	0.08	-4.60
National Institute of Informatics	790	0.07	765	0.07	1.41
Globe Hosting, Inc.	785	0.07	741	0.07	4.03
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	778	0.07	631	0.06	21.08
AusCERT	775	0.07	757	0.07	0.54
Autistici/Inventati	764	0.07	737	0.07	1.80
EUNETIC GmbH	758	0.07	752	0.07	-1.02
ips Certification Authority	755	0.07	722	0.07	2.69
OVH SAS	738	0.07	683	0.06	6.11
Parallels, Inc.	634	0.06	620	0.06	0.42
SYS-CON Media	614	0.06	600	0.05	0.49
Firstserver, Inc	484	0.04	468	0.04	1.56
TAIWAN-CA INC.	463	0.04	437	0.04	4.04
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	425	0.04	473	0.04	-11.76
FNMT	418	0.04	411	0.04	-0.13
CrossTrust	407	0.04	405	0.04	-1.31
OCC	404	0.04	404	0.04	-1.80
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	397	0.04	380	0.03	2.59
RBC Hosting Center	390	0.04	384	0.04	-0.27
WTF ALFA	378	0.03	376	0.03	-1.28
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	374	0.03	380	0.03	-3.35
ICP-Brasil	370	0.03	382	0.03	-4.88
TBS INTERNET	367	0.03	360	0.03	0.11
Apache HTTP Server	350	0.03	347	0.03	-0.95
Cybertrust	343	0.03	420	0.04	-19.80
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	341	0.03	373	0.03	-10.22
Secure Business Services, Inc.	328	0.03	337	0.03	-4.42
OptimumSSL CA	308	0.03	303	0.03	-0.18
XX	279	0.03	270	0.02	1.47
SonicWALL, Inc.	270	0.02	274	0.03	-3.23
Getronics Nederland BV	261	0.02	259	0.02	-1.04
SwissSign AG	249	0.02	254	0.02	-3.73
Sonera	248	0.02	253	0.02	-3.74
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	223	0.02	224	0.02	-2.24
TDC	222	0.02	222	0.02	-1.80
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	220	0.02	218	0.02	-0.90
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	215	0.02	206	0.02	2.49
InterWorx	208	0.02	237	0.02	-13.82
SiteGround LLC.	207	0.02	218	0.02	-6.75
SGssl	198	0.02	190	0.02	2.34
NetLock Kft.	198	0.02	162	0.01	20.02
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	193	0.02	190	0.02	-0.25
Digi-Sign Limited	191	0.02	186	0.02	0.84
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	187	0.02	187	0.02	-1.80
Positive Software	185	0.02	188	0.02	-3.37
Wells Fargo	176	0.02	174	0.02	-0.67
My Company Ltd	175	0.02	174	0.02	-1.24
Dotname Korea Corp.	169	0.02	164	0.02	1.19
MULTICERT-CA	166	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.