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 doesn't verify the signatures of the certificates it finds, it only uses the issuer Organization Name to uniquely identify the issuing CA.

CA	November 2000 Count	November 2000 %	October 2000 Count	October 2000 %	Growth %
Verisign	33,117	57.55	33,645	58.30	-1.29
Thawte	18,024	31.32	17,765	30.78	1.74
Snake Oil, Ltd	937	1.63	855	1.48	9.90
Equifax Secure Inc	836	1.45	748	1.30	12.08
Unknown	177	0.31	149	0.26	19.13
Entrust.net	170	0.30	170	0.29	0.28
Esat Net	116	0.20	109	0.19	6.72
U.S. Government	83	0.14	83	0.14	0.28
CETI s.c.	78	0.14	79	0.14	-0.99
Corpex Ltd	71	0.12	73	0.13	-2.47
Franke & Partner	61	0.11	60	0.10	1.95
Thawte Certification	57	0.10	62	0.11	-7.81
zNET Internet Services	53	0.09	54	0.09	-1.58
Netland Internet Services	50	0.09	51	0.09	-1.68
Media3 Technologies L.L.C.	47	0.08	48	0.08	-1.81
Web Hosting	41	0.07	41	0.07	0.28
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	41	0.07	33	0.06	24.59
Onyx Internet	38	0.07	40	0.07	-4.73
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	36	0.06	39	0.07	-7.43
Nordwest.Net	36	0.06	38	0.07	-5.00
TAT GmbH	35	0.06	41	0.07	-14.39
BroadBand Communications, Inc.	35	0.06	35	0.06	0.28
SomeOrganization	34	0.06	0	0.00	N/A
DeZines Web Hosting	33	0.06	34	0.06	-2.67
Vest Internett	31	0.05	33	0.06	-5.80
Kubota Systems Inc.	27	0.05	24	0.04	12.82
Indra's Net, Inc.	27	0.05	27	0.05	0.28
University of Florida	26	0.05	26	0.05	0.28
Webmaster	24	0.04	26	0.05	-7.43
Linux Test Server	24	0.04	35	0.06	-31.24
Alleanza I.T.B.	24	0.04	24	0.04	0.28
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	22	0.04	22	0.04	0.28
BSG	22	0.04	9	0.02	145.13
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	20	0.03	20	0.03	0.28
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	20	0.03	20	0.03	0.28
ANET St. Louis	20	0.03	20	0.03	0.28
Webkeepers Limited	19	0.03	19	0.03	0.28
Test Organisation	19	0.03	18	0.03	5.85
Superb Internet Corp.	19	0.03	19	0.03	0.28
MBnet Networking Inc.	19	0.03	21	0.04	-9.27
For Demo Purposes Only	19	0.03	20	0.03	-4.73
UUNET UK	18	0.03	17	0.03	6.18
SCNC	18	0.03	19	0.03	-5.00
Inter Clear Service Ltd	18	0.03	18	0.03	0.28
Covalent Technologies, Inc.	18	0.03	18	0.03	0.28
Aktiv!NETZ Internet Presentations GmbH	17	0.03	17	0.03	0.28
Kommunikationssysteme ShE GmbH	16	0.03	16	0.03	0.28
Ipswitch,Inc.	16	0.03	13	0.02	23.42
IndyWeb Inc.	16	0.03	16	0.03	0.28
Deutsche Telekom AG	16	0.03	13	0.02	23.42
comDesign	14	0.02	14	0.02	0.28
Spekter Bergen AS	14	0.02	15	0.03	-6.40
Digital Visions	14	0.02	14	0.02	0.28
CyberGate Inc.	14	0.02	15	0.03	-6.40
ITBS OnLine	13	0.02	13	0.02	0.28
Wantree Internet	12	0.02	13	0.02	-7.43
ProSalg as	12	0.02	12	0.02	0.28
Powersurge Technologies, Inc.	12	0.02	12	0.02	0.28
Marketwizz Internet Solutions	12	0.02	13	0.02	-7.43
Algarvenet	12	0.02	13	0.02	-7.43
i-Planet	11	0.02	12	0.02	-8.08
University of Economics and BA	11	0.02	10	0.02	10.31
Oy Multi.fi Finland Ab Ltd.	11	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
InterX Technologies	11	0.02	11	0.02	0.28
Estore Corp	11	0.02	10	0.02	10.31
Cybermarket	11	0.02	11	0.02	0.28
dgSoft Internet Sevices	10	0.02	10	0.02	0.28
WebNexus Communications	10	0.02	10	0.02	0.28
UNI-REGENSBURG	10	0.02	10	0.02	0.28
Radio Data Group Inc	10	0.02	10	0.02	0.28
National Institutes of Health	10	0.02	10	0.02	0.28
My Company Ltd	10	0.02	9	0.02	11.42
the Internet Outlet	9	0.02	19	0.03	-52.50
University of Oulu	9	0.02	9	0.02	0.28
University of Maryland	9	0.02	9	0.02	0.28
USMC	9	0.02	8	0.01	12.82
Swisskey AG	9	0.02	10	0.02	-9.75
Netalia Internet Ltd	9	0.02	8	0.01	12.82
Interzona.net srl	9	0.02	9	0.02	0.28
Internet Solutions	9	0.02	9	0.02	0.28
Inficad Computing and Design	9	0.02	8	0.01	12.82
GlobalSign nv-sa	9	0.02	13	0.02	-30.57
CyberGate	9	0.02	10	0.02	-9.75
University of Helsinki	8	0.01	8	0.01	0.28
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	8	0.01	8	0.01	0.28
NECTEC	8	0.01	8	0.01	0.28
Monteuve	8	0.01	8	0.01	0.28
MFM Communication Software, Inc.	8	0.01	8	0.01	0.28
IPS Seguridad CA	8	0.01	9	0.02	-10.86
GTM Internet, Inc.	8	0.01	8	0.01	0.28
CyberGate, Inc.	8	0.01	9	0.02	-10.86
A&S Systemtechnik	8	0.01	9	0.02	-10.86
VonRoll	7	0.01	7	0.01	0.28
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	7	0.01	7	0.01	0.28
Netlink, Inc.	7	0.01	7	0.01	0.28
Netland Oy	7	0.01	7	0.01	0.28
Media3 Inc	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Kommunedata	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
FUN Kommunikationssysteme GmbH	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Extend.net	7	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.