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 2014 Count	June 2014 %	May 2014 Count	May 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	344,496	19.69	342,342	19.84	-0.74
GeoTrust, Inc.	309,314	17.68	304,263	17.63	0.27
COMODO CA Limited	191,594	10.95	186,729	10.82	1.21
DigiCert	122,860	7.02	118,662	6.88	2.13
Verisign	98,142	5.61	97,795	5.67	-1.01
Thawte, Inc.	77,517	4.43	78,145	4.53	-2.16
GeoTrust Inc.	77,043	4.40	74,708	4.33	1.72
GlobalSign nv-sa	76,161	4.35	73,791	4.28	1.80
Unknown	39,526	2.26	38,762	2.25	0.58
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	35,622	2.04	35,109	2.03	0.08
GANDI SAS	34,948	2.00	34,145	1.98	0.96
Network Solutions L.L.C.	29,768	1.70	29,734	1.72	-1.25
StartCom Ltd.	23,182	1.33	23,028	1.33	-0.70
AlphaSSL	21,846	1.25	22,063	1.28	-2.33
Entrust, Inc.	20,504	1.17	20,926	1.21	-3.35
Internet2	18,268	1.04	17,922	1.04	0.54
TERENA	18,066	1.03	17,901	1.04	-0.45
Cybertrust Inc	14,914	0.85	13,742	0.80	7.05
Parallels	11,191	0.64	10,977	0.64	0.56
Volusion, Inc.	8,547	0.49	8,386	0.49	0.53
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	7,746	0.44	7,603	0.44	0.49
Equifax (Geotrust)	6,766	0.39	7,232	0.42	-7.72
SomeOrganization	6,547	0.37	6,498	0.38	-0.62
CompanyName	6,346	0.36	6,331	0.37	-1.13
Comodo Limited	5,903	0.34	6,355	0.37	-8.38
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	5,288	0.30	5,290	0.31	-1.40
Google Inc	4,814	0.28	4,658	0.27	1.94
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,710	0.27	4,698	0.27	-1.11
Microsoft Corporation	4,536	0.26	4,550	0.26	-1.67
Comodo CA Limited	4,438	0.25	4,734	0.27	-7.53
GeoTrust Inc	4,412	0.25	5,028	0.29	-13.45
thawte, Inc.	4,374	0.25	4,235	0.25	1.87
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,950	0.23	3,945	0.23	-1.24
SecureTrust Corporation	3,503	0.20	3,633	0.21	-4.89
Servision Inc.	2,686	0.15	2,655	0.15	-0.21
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,410	0.14	2,353	0.14	1.03
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	2,357	0.13	1,759	0.10	32.17
Thawte	2,336	0.13	2,428	0.14	-5.10
none	2,253	0.13	2,148	0.12	3.46
ispgateway	2,093	0.12	2,023	0.12	2.05
QuoVadis Limited	2,010	0.11	1,977	0.11	0.28
Root CA	1,767	0.10	1,814	0.11	-3.92
CAcert Inc.	1,440	0.08	1,418	0.08	0.17
U.S. Government	1,438	0.08	1,452	0.08	-2.31
Government of Korea	1,422	0.08	1,414	0.08	-0.81
Register.com	1,360	0.08	1,371	0.08	-2.16
T-Systems International GmbH	1,321	0.08	1,293	0.07	0.77
National Institute of Informatics	1,307	0.07	1,294	0.07	-0.37
AusCERT	1,285	0.07	1,265	0.07	0.20
Autistici/Inventati	1,239	0.07	1,216	0.07	0.50
EUNETIC GmbH	1,092	0.06	1,094	0.06	-1.54
UIC	1,067	0.06	1,069	0.06	-1.55
Symantec Corporation	1,064	0.06	432	0.03	142.94
TAIWAN-CA INC.	965	0.06	954	0.06	-0.23
Intermediate Certificate	937	0.05	881	0.05	4.91
GlobalSign	851	0.05	965	0.06	-13.02
NetLock Kft.	811	0.05	780	0.05	2.56
Parallels, Inc.	801	0.05	816	0.05	-3.18
Trend Micro Inc	781	0.04	712	0.04	8.20
SWsoft, Inc.	743	0.04	771	0.04	-4.95
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	650	0.04	658	0.04	-2.56
Snake Oil, Ltd	634	0.04	643	0.04	-2.74
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	597	0.03	573	0.03	2.77
DreamHost	565	0.03	485	0.03	14.91
FNMT	554	0.03	586	0.03	-6.75
SwissSign AG	548	0.03	536	0.03	0.84
ICP-Brasil	529	0.03	525	0.03	-0.61
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	519	0.03	509	0.03	0.57
Firstserver, Inc	471	0.03	469	0.03	-0.94
TBS INTERNET	467	0.03	472	0.03	-2.41
SGssl	456	0.03	444	0.03	1.30
Alpha	452	0.03	795	0.05	-43.92
OCC	445	0.03	441	0.03	-0.47
CrossTrust	437	0.02	444	0.03	-2.92
Zimbra Collaboration Server	406	0.02	387	0.02	3.48
JSC Regional Network Information Center	405	0.02	375	0.02	6.53
KEYNECTIS	392	0.02	373	0.02	3.66
OptimumSSL CA	376	0.02	371	0.02	-0.03
KPN Corporate Market BV	367	0.02	356	0.02	1.68
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	365	0.02	361	0.02	-0.27
SSL.com	350	0.02	300	0.02	15.08
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	339	0.02	327	0.02	2.26
XX	315	0.02	318	0.02	-2.29
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	310	0.02	300	0.02	1.92
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	301	0.02	304	0.02	-2.34
TC TrustCenter GmbH	297	0.02	369	0.02	-20.61
ACCV	278	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	274	0.02	286	0.02	-5.50
Dotname Korea Corp.	270	0.02	269	0.02	-1.00
Vodafone Group	269	0.02	267	0.02	-0.62
INTERWORX LLC	269	0.02	287	0.02	-7.55
ips Certification Authority	268	0.02	287	0.02	-7.89
Getronics Nederland BV	258	0.01	281	0.02	-9.44
GAD EG	250	0.01	223	0.01	10.58
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	247	0.01	282	0.02	-13.61
Pavel&Pavel	241	0.01	239	0.01	-0.54
Apache HTTP Server	228	0.01	224	0.01	0.40
Wells Fargo	212	0.01	214	0.01	-2.29
RBC Hosting Center	205	0.01	234	0.01	-13.59
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	204	0.01	218	0.01	-7.70

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.