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	December 2014 Count	December 2014 %	November 2014 Count	November 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	385,008	19.82	371,654	19.41	2.10
GeoTrust, Inc.	257,888	13.27	284,819	14.88	-10.76
COMODO CA Limited	228,012	11.74	228,576	11.94	-1.68
DigiCert	157,181	8.09	153,569	8.02	0.88
GeoTrust Inc.	152,458	7.85	119,789	6.26	25.44
GlobalSign nv-sa	95,011	4.89	91,151	4.76	2.73
Verisign	82,741	4.26	86,968	4.54	-6.23
Thawte, Inc.	65,906	3.39	71,685	3.74	-9.39
Gandi	51,244	2.64	49,971	2.61	1.07
Unknown	38,589	1.99	38,211	2.00	-0.47
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	37,412	1.93	37,541	1.96	-1.78
Network Solutions L.L.C.	29,710	1.53	29,606	1.55	-1.10
StartCom Ltd.	26,857	1.38	26,347	1.38	0.47
Entrust, Inc.	21,068	1.08	20,903	1.09	-0.66
Internet2	20,562	1.06	19,916	1.04	1.76
TERENA	19,462	1.00	19,114	1.00	0.35
AlphaSSL	17,952	0.92	19,017	0.99	-6.96
thawte, Inc.	15,840	0.82	10,211	0.53	52.89
Symantec Corporation	14,709	0.76	10,518	0.55	37.83
Parallels	12,921	0.67	12,536	0.65	1.59
Microsoft Corporation	12,158	0.63	11,962	0.62	0.17
Verizon Enterprise Solutions	11,791	0.61	3,748	0.20	210.06
Volusion, Inc.	8,683	0.45	8,605	0.45	-0.55
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	8,639	0.44	8,565	0.45	-0.59
SomeOrganization	8,140	0.42	7,728	0.40	3.81
Cybertrust Inc	7,100	0.37	14,733	0.77	-52.50
CompanyName	7,051	0.36	7,033	0.37	-1.19
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	6,144	0.32	5,993	0.31	1.04
Google Inc	6,012	0.31	5,826	0.30	1.71
Equifax (Geotrust)	5,448	0.28	5,700	0.30	-5.80
GANDI SAS	4,854	0.25	4,840	0.25	-1.16
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,813	0.25	4,805	0.25	-1.28
Comodo Limited	4,641	0.24	4,830	0.25	-5.30
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,911	0.20	3,912	0.20	-1.47
Comodo CA Limited	3,495	0.18	3,722	0.19	-7.45
SecureTrust Corporation	2,986	0.15	3,160	0.17	-6.87
Servision Inc.	2,853	0.15	2,830	0.15	-0.64
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,690	0.14	2,675	0.14	-0.89
none	2,609	0.13	2,530	0.13	1.64
QuoVadis Limited	2,467	0.13	2,324	0.12	4.62
GeoTrust Inc	2,338	0.12	2,718	0.14	-15.22
ispgateway	2,321	0.12	2,299	0.12	-0.50
Thawte	1,991	0.10	2,039	0.11	-3.76
Root CA	1,621	0.08	1,679	0.09	-4.85
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	1,607	0.08	2,666	0.14	-40.59
Government of Korea	1,570	0.08	1,552	0.08	-0.30
CAcert Inc.	1,440	0.07	1,451	0.08	-2.19
U.S. Government	1,409	0.07	1,386	0.07	0.19
National Institute of Informatics	1,372	0.07	1,351	0.07	0.09
T-Systems International GmbH	1,364	0.07	1,373	0.07	-2.09
Corporation Service Company	1,353	0.07	229	0.01	482.31
Autistici/Inventati	1,320	0.07	1,310	0.07	-0.69
AusCERT	1,138	0.06	1,221	0.06	-8.14
Register.com	1,137	0.06	1,284	0.07	-12.73
UIC	1,095	0.06	1,092	0.06	-1.17
TAIWAN-CA INC.	1,075	0.06	1,059	0.06	0.05
EUNETIC GmbH	1,071	0.06	1,136	0.06	-7.08
Intermediate Certificate	1,067	0.05	1,026	0.05	2.50
DreamHost	1,034	0.05	944	0.05	7.96
NetLock Kft.	830	0.04	832	0.04	-1.68
Parallels, Inc.	742	0.04	759	0.04	-3.65
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	708	0.04	689	0.04	1.28
GlobalSign	686	0.04	697	0.04	-3.00
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	667	0.03	680	0.04	-3.33
JSC Regional Network Information Center	624	0.03	613	0.03	0.33
SWsoft, Inc.	621	0.03	650	0.03	-5.84
SwissSign AG	613	0.03	599	0.03	0.86
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	598	0.03	577	0.03	2.15
Snake Oil, Ltd	575	0.03	600	0.03	-5.55
KPN Corporate Market BV	547	0.03	522	0.03	3.28
ICP-Brasil	543	0.03	533	0.03	0.41
Trend Micro Inc	533	0.03	515	0.03	2.00
FNMT	530	0.03	542	0.03	-3.62
SSL.com	526	0.03	489	0.03	6.02
TBS INTERNET	505	0.03	498	0.03	-0.06
SGssl	492	0.03	482	0.03	0.60
Firstserver, Inc	470	0.02	476	0.02	-2.68
KEYNECTIS	464	0.02	481	0.03	-4.92
OCC	455	0.02	454	0.02	-1.22
Zimbra Collaboration Server	449	0.02	430	0.02	2.91
CrossTrust	436	0.02	430	0.02	-0.07
Alpha	418	0.02	426	0.02	-3.29
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	363	0.02	362	0.02	-1.17
ACCV	361	0.02	351	0.02	1.37
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	347	0.02	343	0.02	-0.29
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	335	0.02	335	0.02	-1.44
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	322	0.02	322	0.02	-1.44
XX	315	0.02	319	0.02	-2.68
GAD EG	314	0.02	305	0.02	1.47
Vodafone Group	284	0.01	277	0.01	1.05
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	271	0.01	270	0.01	-1.08
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	249	0.01	256	0.01	-4.14
Pavel&Pavel	247	0.01	246	0.01	-1.04
WebSupport, s.r.o.	241	0.01	238	0.01	-0.20
Universitaet Stuttgart	233	0.01	224	0.01	2.52
nazwa.pl S.A.	232	0.01	330	0.02	-30.71
WoSign CA Limited	223	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Oracle Corporation	220	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
AC Camerfirma SA	217	0.01	217	0.01	-1.44
INTERWORX LLC	215	0.01	273	0.01	-22.38

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.