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	October 2014 Count	October 2014 %	September 2014 Count	September 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	367,375	19.84	365,643	19.83	0.04
GeoTrust, Inc.	288,571	15.59	302,603	16.41	-5.05
COMODO CA Limited	216,175	11.68	210,081	11.40	2.46
DigiCert	147,868	7.99	143,793	7.80	2.39
GeoTrust Inc.	103,100	5.57	85,459	4.64	20.12
Verisign	90,259	4.87	93,970	5.10	-4.36
GlobalSign nv-sa	87,191	4.71	82,390	4.47	5.37
Thawte, Inc.	73,886	3.99	77,960	4.23	-5.64
GANDI SAS	53,406	2.88	52,127	2.83	2.01
Unknown	38,060	2.06	38,094	2.07	-0.52
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	37,128	2.01	37,312	2.02	-0.92
Network Solutions L.L.C.	29,494	1.59	29,433	1.60	-0.23
StartCom Ltd.	25,461	1.38	26,874	1.46	-5.67
Entrust, Inc.	20,519	1.11	20,532	1.11	-0.50
Internet2	19,495	1.05	19,188	1.04	1.16
AlphaSSL	19,237	1.04	21,029	1.14	-8.92
TERENA	18,787	1.01	18,616	1.01	0.48
Parallels	12,019	0.65	11,858	0.64	0.92
Microsoft Corporation	11,150	0.60	5,635	0.31	97.02
Cybertrust Inc	9,155	0.49	16,045	0.87	-43.19
Volusion, Inc.	8,645	0.47	8,691	0.47	-0.96
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	8,371	0.45	8,230	0.45	1.27
SomeOrganization	7,429	0.40	7,164	0.39	3.25
thawte, Inc.	7,174	0.39	4,535	0.25	57.51
Symantec Corporation	6,803	0.37	3,616	0.20	87.32
Equifax (Geotrust)	5,859	0.32	6,186	0.34	-5.70
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	5,804	0.31	5,752	0.31	0.47
Google Inc	5,608	0.30	5,441	0.30	2.62
Comodo Limited	4,857	0.26	5,074	0.28	-4.69
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,778	0.26	4,772	0.26	-0.31
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,906	0.21	3,932	0.21	-1.09
Comodo CA Limited	3,888	0.21	4,037	0.22	-4.11
SecureTrust Corporation	3,109	0.17	3,231	0.18	-4.19
GeoTrust Inc	2,980	0.16	3,335	0.18	-11.03
Servision Inc.	2,779	0.15	2,750	0.15	0.62
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	2,776	0.15	2,851	0.15	-3.05
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,600	0.14	2,564	0.14	0.97
none	2,481	0.13	2,393	0.13	3.23
ispgateway	2,245	0.12	2,194	0.12	1.88
QuoVadis Limited	2,188	0.12	2,081	0.11	4.69
Thawte	2,089	0.11	2,171	0.12	-4.19
Root CA	1,684	0.09	1,728	0.09	-2.97
Government of Korea	1,545	0.08	1,528	0.08	0.68
CAcert Inc.	1,447	0.08	1,478	0.08	-2.52
U.S. Government	1,358	0.07	1,417	0.08	-4.58
T-Systems International GmbH	1,358	0.07	1,365	0.07	-0.94
National Institute of Informatics	1,337	0.07	1,338	0.07	-0.51
Register.com	1,302	0.07	1,336	0.07	-2.97
Autistici/Inventati	1,300	0.07	1,290	0.07	0.34
AusCERT	1,267	0.07	1,324	0.07	-4.72
EUNETIC GmbH	1,147	0.06	1,127	0.06	1.33
UIC	1,086	0.06	1,081	0.06	0.03
TAIWAN-CA INC.	1,010	0.05	1,002	0.05	0.36
Intermediate Certificate	981	0.05	997	0.05	-2.03
NetLock Kft.	844	0.05	841	0.05	-0.08
DreamHost	826	0.04	747	0.04	10.10
Verizon Enterprise Solutions	763	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
Parallels, Inc.	751	0.04	779	0.04	-4.01
GlobalSign	727	0.04	789	0.04	-8.26
SWsoft, Inc.	654	0.04	691	0.04	-5.76
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	642	0.03	652	0.04	-1.96
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	635	0.03	684	0.04	-7.57
Snake Oil, Ltd	597	0.03	616	0.03	-3.50
SwissSign AG	582	0.03	569	0.03	1.84
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	561	0.03	549	0.03	1.74
FNMT	546	0.03	547	0.03	-0.61
ICP-Brasil	530	0.03	533	0.03	-0.99
Trend Micro Inc	495	0.03	827	0.04	-40.40
KPN Corporate Market BV	491	0.03	464	0.03	5.36
TBS INTERNET	490	0.03	483	0.03	1.01
SGssl	478	0.03	480	0.03	-0.85
JSC Regional Network Information Center	478	0.03	466	0.03	2.13
Firstserver, Inc	472	0.03	464	0.03	1.28
KEYNECTIS	466	0.03	450	0.02	3.11
OCC	452	0.02	454	0.02	-0.87
SSL.com	451	0.02	433	0.02	3.71
CrossTrust	433	0.02	433	0.02	-0.43
Zimbra Collaboration Server	425	0.02	416	0.02	1.72
Alpha	423	0.02	433	0.02	-2.73
OptimumSSL CA	375	0.02	381	0.02	-2.00
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	358	0.02	350	0.02	1.84
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	344	0.02	344	0.02	-0.43
ACCV	336	0.02	331	0.02	1.07
XX	326	0.02	316	0.02	2.72
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	321	0.02	336	0.02	-4.88
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	317	0.02	316	0.02	-0.12
nazwa.pl S.A.	310	0.02	282	0.02	9.45
GAD EG	293	0.02	282	0.02	3.45
Vodafone Group	274	0.01	275	0.01	-0.79
INTERWORX LLC	265	0.01	277	0.02	-4.75
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	257	0.01	268	0.01	-4.52
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	252	0.01	244	0.01	2.83
Pavel&Pavel	244	0.01	244	0.01	-0.43
Universitaet Stuttgart	222	0.01	220	0.01	0.47
Apache HTTP Server	222	0.01	219	0.01	0.93
AC Camerfirma SA	207	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
ips Certification Authority	205	0.01	225	0.01	-9.28
Oracle Corporation	200	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Universitaet Heidelberg	198	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Microsec Ltd.	197	0.01	204	0.01	-3.85

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.