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	February 2014 Count	February 2014 %	January 2014 Count	January 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	327,149	20.01	321,145	20.09	-0.41
GeoTrust, Inc.	285,717	17.47	277,669	17.37	0.60
COMODO CA Limited	167,379	10.24	160,983	10.07	1.65
DigiCert	98,123	6.00	93,684	5.86	2.40
Verisign	97,341	5.95	96,817	6.06	-1.70
Thawte, Inc.	76,599	4.68	75,690	4.73	-1.06
GlobalSign nv-sa	66,478	4.07	64,897	4.06	0.15
GeoTrust Inc.	63,124	3.86	60,898	3.81	1.34
GANDI SAS	44,079	2.70	42,377	2.65	1.69
Unknown	40,086	2.45	39,104	2.45	0.22
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	33,059	2.02	32,406	2.03	-0.26
Network Solutions L.L.C.	28,929	1.77	28,476	1.78	-0.68
StartCom Ltd.	21,456	1.31	20,778	1.30	0.96
AlphaSSL	21,234	1.30	20,579	1.29	0.88
Entrust, Inc.	19,927	1.22	19,520	1.22	-0.19
TERENA	16,921	1.03	16,566	1.04	-0.14
Internet2	16,266	0.99	15,750	0.99	0.97
Equifax (Geotrust)	14,152	0.87	13,807	0.86	0.21
Cybertrust Inc	13,305	0.81	12,981	0.81	0.21
Parallels	10,142	0.62	9,868	0.62	0.48
Comodo CA Limited	8,446	0.52	9,373	0.59	-11.90
Comodo Limited	8,170	0.50	9,901	0.62	-19.33
Volusion, Inc.	7,810	0.48	7,571	0.47	0.85
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	6,769	0.41	6,566	0.41	0.79
SomeOrganization	6,253	0.38	6,266	0.39	-2.44
CompanyName	6,098	0.37	5,890	0.37	1.22
GeoTrust Inc	5,765	0.35	5,923	0.37	-4.84
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	4,569	0.28	4,806	0.30	-7.05
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,416	0.27	4,346	0.27	-0.66
SecureTrust Corporation	4,317	0.26	4,400	0.28	-4.08
Google Inc	4,237	0.26	4,079	0.26	1.55
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,893	0.24	3,869	0.24	-1.63
thawte, Inc.	3,808	0.23	3,690	0.23	0.89
Thawte	2,677	0.16	2,738	0.17	-4.41
Servision Inc.	2,553	0.16	2,509	0.16	-0.52
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,031	0.12	1,950	0.12	1.83
none	1,996	0.12	1,913	0.12	2.01
ispgateway	1,894	0.12	1,855	0.12	-0.18
QuoVadis Limited	1,872	0.11	1,851	0.12	-1.12
Root CA	1,809	0.11	1,803	0.11	-1.91
Alpha	1,754	0.11	1,759	0.11	-2.51
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	1,631	0.10	1,598	0.10	-0.21
U.S. Government	1,488	0.09	1,460	0.09	-0.36
CAcert Inc.	1,469	0.09	1,445	0.09	-0.61
Register.com	1,359	0.08	1,357	0.08	-2.09
Government of Korea	1,315	0.08	1,283	0.08	0.21
GlobalSign	1,255	0.08	1,301	0.08	-5.69
National Institute of Informatics	1,182	0.07	1,159	0.07	-0.29
AusCERT	1,179	0.07	1,161	0.07	-0.72
T-Systems International GmbH	1,155	0.07	1,138	0.07	-0.77
Autistici/Inventati	1,150	0.07	1,131	0.07	-0.59
UIC	1,062	0.06	1,058	0.07	-1.86
EUNETIC GmbH	1,062	0.06	1,044	0.07	-0.55
TAIWAN-CA INC.	894	0.05	869	0.05	0.58
Parallels, Inc.	821	0.05	800	0.05	0.33
SWsoft, Inc.	808	0.05	826	0.05	-4.36
NetLock Kft.	753	0.05	720	0.05	2.25
Snake Oil, Ltd	657	0.04	660	0.04	-2.68
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	609	0.04	588	0.04	1.26
Intermediate Certificate	593	0.04	539	0.03	7.56
Trend Micro Inc	572	0.03	531	0.03	5.32
FNMT	568	0.03	561	0.04	-1.01
TC TrustCenter GmbH	518	0.03	584	0.04	-13.28
ICP-Brasil	508	0.03	504	0.03	-1.46
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	486	0.03	460	0.03	3.29
SwissSign AG	481	0.03	468	0.03	0.48
Firstserver, Inc	474	0.03	477	0.03	-2.85
ips Certification Authority	472	0.03	514	0.03	-10.22
TBS INTERNET	459	0.03	466	0.03	-3.70
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	453	0.03	430	0.03	3.00
OCC	444	0.03	441	0.03	-1.57
CrossTrust	441	0.03	446	0.03	-3.33
SGssl	408	0.02	399	0.02	-0.03
OptimumSSL CA	366	0.02	361	0.02	-0.88
Generalitat Valenciana	343	0.02	330	0.02	1.62
XX	333	0.02	329	0.02	-1.04
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	330	0.02	328	0.02	-1.64
Getronics Nederland BV	327	0.02	331	0.02	-3.41
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	313	0.02	319	0.02	-4.07
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	313	0.02	308	0.02	-0.65
Zimbra Collaboration Server	311	0.02	280	0.02	8.59
JSC Regional Network Information Center	307	0.02	287	0.02	4.58
KPN Corporate Market BV	300	0.02	285	0.02	2.91
DreamHost	298	0.02	258	0.02	12.92
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	289	0.02	284	0.02	-0.51
RBC Hosting Center	282	0.02	301	0.02	-8.40
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	267	0.02	254	0.02	2.77
Apache HTTP Server	265	0.02	264	0.02	-1.86
Dotname Korea Corp.	256	0.02	255	0.02	-1.85
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	252	0.02	245	0.02	0.56
KEYNECTIS	242	0.01	235	0.01	0.68
Vodafone Group	239	0.01	233	0.01	0.28
INTERWORX LLC	231	0.01	216	0.01	4.56
Pavel&Pavel	222	0.01	214	0.01	1.42
SonicWALL, Inc.	221	0.01	221	0.01	-2.23
WoSign eCommerce Services Limited	218	0.01	204	0.01	4.48
Wells Fargo	216	0.01	216	0.01	-2.23
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	213	0.01	210	0.01	-0.84
Plesk Inc.	199	0.01	188	0.01	3.49
DREAMHOST CERTIFICATION AUTHORITY	187	0.01	186	0.01	-1.71

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.