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	March 2014 Count	March 2014 %	February 2014 Count	February 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	331,331	20.01	327,149	20.01	0.01
GeoTrust, Inc.	290,927	17.57	285,717	17.47	0.55
COMODO CA Limited	172,639	10.43	167,379	10.24	1.85
DigiCert	102,322	6.18	98,123	6.00	2.98
Verisign	97,517	5.89	97,341	5.95	-1.07
Thawte, Inc.	77,282	4.67	76,599	4.68	-0.37
GlobalSign nv-sa	67,938	4.10	66,478	4.07	0.92
GeoTrust Inc.	66,446	4.01	63,124	3.86	3.95
Unknown	40,639	2.45	40,086	2.45	0.11
GANDI SAS	34,908	2.11	44,079	2.70	-21.80
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	33,743	2.04	33,059	2.02	0.79
Network Solutions L.L.C.	29,228	1.77	28,929	1.77	-0.23
StartCom Ltd.	22,137	1.34	21,456	1.31	1.88
AlphaSSL	22,071	1.33	21,234	1.30	2.64
Entrust, Inc.	20,293	1.23	19,927	1.22	0.56
TERENA	17,260	1.04	16,921	1.03	0.73
Internet2	16,677	1.01	16,266	0.99	1.25
Equifax (Geotrust)	14,436	0.87	14,152	0.87	0.73
Cybertrust Inc	13,577	0.82	13,305	0.81	0.77
Parallels	10,403	0.63	10,142	0.62	1.29
Comodo CA Limited	8,236	0.50	8,446	0.52	-3.71
Volusion, Inc.	7,920	0.48	7,810	0.48	0.14
Comodo Limited	7,456	0.45	8,170	0.50	-9.88
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	6,925	0.42	6,769	0.41	1.03
SomeOrganization	6,371	0.38	6,253	0.38	0.61
CompanyName	6,317	0.38	6,098	0.37	2.30
GeoTrust Inc	5,604	0.34	5,765	0.35	-4.01
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,448	0.27	4,416	0.27	-0.53
Google Inc	4,381	0.26	4,237	0.26	2.11
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	4,264	0.26	4,569	0.28	-7.84
SecureTrust Corporation	4,257	0.26	4,317	0.26	-2.62
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,926	0.24	3,893	0.24	-0.41
thawte, Inc.	3,893	0.24	3,808	0.23	0.95
Thawte	2,621	0.16	2,677	0.16	-3.32
Servision Inc.	2,589	0.16	2,553	0.16	0.14
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,105	0.13	2,031	0.12	2.35
none	2,033	0.12	1,996	0.12	0.58
ispgateway	1,941	0.12	1,894	0.12	1.20
QuoVadis Limited	1,867	0.11	1,872	0.11	-1.51
Root CA	1,822	0.11	1,809	0.11	-0.54
Alpha	1,744	0.11	1,754	0.11	-1.81
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	1,660	0.10	1,631	0.10	0.51
U.S. Government	1,496	0.09	1,488	0.09	-0.72
CAcert Inc.	1,480	0.09	1,469	0.09	-0.51
Register.com	1,376	0.08	1,359	0.08	-0.01
Government of Korea	1,345	0.08	1,315	0.08	1.00
National Institute of Informatics	1,227	0.07	1,182	0.07	2.51
AusCERT	1,209	0.07	1,179	0.07	1.26
GlobalSign	1,205	0.07	1,255	0.08	-5.18
Autistici/Inventati	1,175	0.07	1,150	0.07	0.90
T-Systems International GmbH	1,131	0.07	1,155	0.07	-3.30
EUNETIC GmbH	1,073	0.06	1,062	0.06	-0.23
UIC	1,065	0.06	1,062	0.06	-0.97
TAIWAN-CA INC.	910	0.05	894	0.05	0.52
Parallels, Inc.	806	0.05	821	0.05	-3.05
SWsoft, Inc.	805	0.05	808	0.05	-1.62
Intermediate Certificate	782	0.05	593	0.04	30.22
NetLock Kft.	742	0.04	753	0.05	-2.69
Snake Oil, Ltd	663	0.04	657	0.04	-0.35
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	641	0.04	609	0.04	3.94
Trend Micro Inc	606	0.04	572	0.03	4.62
FNMT	567	0.03	568	0.03	-1.42
ICP-Brasil	521	0.03	508	0.03	1.28
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	521	0.03	486	0.03	5.86
SwissSign AG	494	0.03	481	0.03	1.42
TC TrustCenter GmbH	488	0.03	518	0.03	-6.97
Firstserver, Inc	478	0.03	474	0.03	-0.42
TBS INTERNET	464	0.03	459	0.03	-0.17
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	462	0.03	453	0.03	0.71
CrossTrust	443	0.03	441	0.03	-0.80
OCC	442	0.03	444	0.03	-1.69
SGssl	425	0.03	408	0.02	2.86
OptimumSSL CA	372	0.02	366	0.02	0.37
ips Certification Authority	349	0.02	472	0.03	-26.98
XX	339	0.02	333	0.02	0.53
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	339	0.02	330	0.02	1.44
Generalitat Valenciana	338	0.02	343	0.02	-2.69
Zimbra Collaboration Server	335	0.02	311	0.02	6.37
DreamHost	333	0.02	298	0.02	10.35
KEYNECTIS	332	0.02	242	0.01	35.48
JSC Regional Network Information Center	332	0.02	307	0.02	6.79
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	318	0.02	313	0.02	0.33
KPN Corporate Market BV	317	0.02	300	0.02	4.35
Getronics Nederland BV	317	0.02	327	0.02	-4.27
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	310	0.02	313	0.02	-2.20
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	289	0.02	289	0.02	-1.25
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	273	0.02	267	0.02	0.97
RBC Hosting Center	271	0.02	282	0.02	-5.10
Apache HTTP Server	271	0.02	265	0.02	0.99
Dotname Korea Corp.	261	0.02	256	0.02	0.68
INTERWORX LLC	259	0.02	231	0.01	10.72
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	256	0.02	252	0.02	0.32
Vodafone Group	239	0.01	239	0.01	-1.25
Pavel&Pavel	229	0.01	222	0.01	1.86
Wells Fargo	218	0.01	216	0.01	-0.34
WoSign eCommerce Services Limited	217	0.01	218	0.01	-1.70
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	215	0.01	213	0.01	-0.32
SonicWALL, Inc.	211	0.01	221	0.01	-5.72
SSL.com	211	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Microsec Ltd.	189	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.