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	January 2009 Count	January 2009 %	December 2008 Count	December 2008 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	130,190	25.46	128,413	25.54	-0.29
Verisign	78,803	15.41	78,155	15.54	-0.84
Thawte	57,101	11.17	56,613	11.26	-0.81
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	46,242	9.04	43,975	8.74	3.41
Comodo Limited	44,895	8.78	44,189	8.79	-0.08
Unknown	12,649	2.47	12,367	2.46	0.59
Network Solutions L.L.C.	9,520	1.86	9,297	1.85	0.70
DigiCert	8,687	1.70	8,424	1.68	1.41
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	8,517	1.67	8,618	1.71	-2.81
GlobalSign	6,572	1.29	6,364	1.27	1.56
GlobalSign nv-sa	6,413	1.25	6,281	1.25	0.41
Comodo CA Limited	5,780	1.13	5,652	1.12	0.57
Entrust.net	5,582	1.09	5,564	1.11	-1.34
p1atin.de	4,481	0.88	3,997	0.79	10.25
SWsoft, Inc.	3,933	0.77	3,983	0.79	-2.89
SomeOrganization	3,783	0.74	3,702	0.74	0.50
Cybertrust	3,394	0.66	3,311	0.66	0.81
SecureTrust Corporation	2,694	0.53	2,424	0.48	9.30
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,536	0.50	2,556	0.51	-2.43
SECOM Trust.net	1,915	0.37	1,981	0.39	-4.93
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	1,822	0.36	1,787	0.36	0.27
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,671	0.33	1,718	0.34	-4.35
Root CA	1,663	0.33	1,647	0.33	-0.70
COMODO CA Limited	1,562	0.31	1,460	0.29	5.21
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,360	0.27	1,325	0.26	0.94
U.S. Government	1,087	0.21	1,067	0.21	0.19
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,081	0.21	1,316	0.26	-19.22
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	1,018	0.20	1,042	0.21	-3.92
Alpha	935	0.18	871	0.17	5.57
Akamai Technologies Inc	921	0.18	897	0.18	0.98
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	835	0.16	781	0.16	5.14
CAcert Inc.	828	0.16	784	0.16	3.86
AddTrust AB	809	0.16	991	0.20	-19.72
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	685	0.13	668	0.13	0.85
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	642	0.13	640	0.13	-1.35
Servision Inc.	639	0.12	601	0.12	4.56
ispgateway	617	0.12	609	0.12	-0.36
Parallels	595	0.12	529	0.11	10.61
Firstserver, Inc.	543	0.11	539	0.11	-0.93
GTE Corporation	523	0.10	524	0.10	-1.84
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	431	0.08	414	0.08	2.38
Earthlink Inc	394	0.08	399	0.08	-2.89
StartCom Ltd.	385	0.08	365	0.07	3.73
Firstserver, Inc	372	0.07	370	0.07	-1.12
thawte, Inc.	371	0.07	366	0.07	-0.31
OCC	347	0.07	346	0.07	-1.37
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	303	0.06	303	0.06	-1.66
suresupport.com	292	0.06	297	0.06	-3.31
Cybertrust Inc	281	0.05	278	0.06	-0.59
Entrust, Inc.	279	0.05	199	0.04	37.88
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	264	0.05	263	0.05	-1.28
TBS INTERNET	255	0.05	252	0.05	-0.49
TDC	252	0.05	254	0.05	-2.43
Sonera	251	0.05	248	0.05	-0.47
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	227	0.04	220	0.04	1.47
WTF ALFA	224	0.04	224	0.04	-1.66
Digi-Sign Limited	217	0.04	215	0.04	-0.74
BlueHost.Com	213	0.04	218	0.04	-3.91
FNMT	207	0.04	198	0.04	2.81
none	191	0.04	169	0.03	11.15
RegisterFly.com, inc.	184	0.04	190	0.04	-4.76
Positive Software	175	0.03	174	0.03	-1.09
RM	171	0.03	170	0.03	-1.08
GeoTrust Inc	168	0.03	165	0.03	0.13
Apache HTTP Server	157	0.03	191	0.04	-19.16
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	153	0.03	157	0.03	-4.16
ICP-Brasil	153	0.03	161	0.03	-6.54
Positive Software Corporation	150	0.03	154	0.03	-4.21
CNRS	150	0.03	148	0.03	-0.33
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	147	0.03	152	0.03	-4.89
My Company Ltd	142	0.03	138	0.03	1.19
TC TrustCenter GmbH	133	0.03	125	0.02	4.64
SonicWALL, Inc.	131	0.03	121	0.02	6.47
50 Below Sales and Marketing, inc.	131	0.03	131	0.03	-1.66
Default Web Site	130	0.03	127	0.03	0.67
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	129	0.03	126	0.03	0.69
TNC	119	0.02	118	0.02	-0.82
National Institute of Informatics	115	0.02	110	0.02	2.81
New Dream Network, LLC.	114	0.02	114	0.02	-1.66
ServerAdmin 24	112	0.02	112	0.02	-1.66
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo	111	0.02	109	0.02	0.15
Sun Microsystems Inc	104	0.02	101	0.02	1.27
MULTICERT-CA	104	0.02	92	0.02	11.17
OVH SAS	102	0.02	98	0.02	2.36
InterWorx	102	0.02	104	0.02	-3.55
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	102	0.02	106	0.02	-5.37
Digital Signature Trust Co.	98	0.02	99	0.02	-2.65
ICS_TREE	97	0.02	92	0.02	3.69
GlobalSign Inc	95	0.02	94	0.02	-0.61
IceWarp Software	90	0.02	93	0.02	-4.83
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	85	0.02	86	0.02	-2.80
OptimumSSL CA	84	0.02	82	0.02	0.74
Register.com	83	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
QuoVadis Limited	81	0.02	79	0.02	0.83
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo	78	0.02	82	0.02	-6.45
America Online Inc.	75	0.01	74	0.01	-0.33
RBC Hosting Center	74	0.01	72	0.01	1.08
WebMoney Transfer	73	0.01	73	0.01	-1.66
Parallels, Inc.	73	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Apache Friends	73	0.01	72	0.01	-0.29

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.