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	June 2009 Count	June 2009 %	May 2009 Count	May 2009 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	143,035	25.78	141,685	25.82	-0.15
Verisign	80,040	14.43	80,107	14.60	-1.18
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	61,636	11.11	59,402	10.83	2.62
Thawte	58,866	10.61	58,852	10.73	-1.07
Comodo Limited	45,950	8.28	45,848	8.36	-0.88
Unknown	13,540	2.44	13,411	2.44	-0.15
Network Solutions L.L.C.	11,064	1.99	10,900	1.99	0.39
DigiCert	10,664	1.92	10,333	1.88	2.07
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	8,313	1.50	8,218	1.50	0.05
GlobalSign	8,117	1.46	7,874	1.43	1.96
GlobalSign nv-sa	7,524	1.36	7,365	1.34	1.04
Comodo CA Limited	7,381	1.33	7,138	1.30	2.27
Entrust.net	5,121	0.92	5,279	0.96	-4.06
Cybertrust	4,084	0.74	3,954	0.72	2.16
SomeOrganization	3,970	0.72	3,968	0.72	-1.05
SWsoft, Inc.	3,615	0.65	3,695	0.67	-3.24
SecureTrust Corporation	3,324	0.60	3,202	0.58	2.67
COMODO CA Limited	3,226	0.58	2,723	0.50	17.17
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,949	0.53	2,906	0.53	0.37
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	2,100	0.38	2,040	0.37	1.81
Entrust, Inc.	1,885	0.34	1,607	0.29	16.01
Root CA	1,808	0.33	1,760	0.32	1.60
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,549	0.28	1,569	0.29	-2.36
SECOM Trust.net	1,534	0.28	1,569	0.29	-3.30
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,359	0.24	1,368	0.25	-1.75
Alpha	1,354	0.24	1,251	0.23	7.05
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	1,311	0.24	1,264	0.23	2.58
Parallels	1,295	0.23	1,157	0.21	10.70
Akamai Technologies Inc	1,057	0.19	1,055	0.19	-0.91
U.S. Government	989	0.18	1,113	0.20	-12.12
XRamp Security Services Inc	873	0.16	907	0.17	-4.80
CAcert Inc.	871	0.16	880	0.16	-2.11
Servision Inc.	780	0.14	763	0.14	1.11
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	729	0.13	715	0.13	0.84
ispgateway	656	0.12	652	0.12	-0.49
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	655	0.12	722	0.13	-10.27
p1atin.de	649	0.12	649	0.12	-1.10
Firstserver, Inc.	601	0.11	598	0.11	-0.60
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	541	0.10	567	0.10	-5.63
thawte, Inc.	540	0.10	519	0.09	2.91
GTE Corporation	515	0.09	584	0.11	-12.78
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	478	0.09	469	0.09	0.80
StartCom Ltd.	456	0.08	448	0.08	0.67
Firstserver, Inc	394	0.07	390	0.07	-0.08
OCC	339	0.06	340	0.06	-1.39
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	339	0.06	340	0.06	-1.39
Cybertrust Inc	331	0.06	324	0.06	1.04
suresupport.com	310	0.06	311	0.06	-1.41
TC TrustCenter GmbH	308	0.06	269	0.05	13.24
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	295	0.05	322	0.06	-9.39
Earthlink Inc	288	0.05	308	0.06	-7.52
AddTrust AB	276	0.05	309	0.06	-11.66
none	274	0.05	251	0.05	7.97
TBS INTERNET	270	0.05	268	0.05	-0.36
Sonera	269	0.05	273	0.05	-2.55
Register.com	255	0.05	222	0.04	13.61
TDC	250	0.05	258	0.05	-4.16
GeoTrust Inc	244	0.04	231	0.04	4.47
WTF ALFA	243	0.04	240	0.04	0.14
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	233	0.04	237	0.04	-2.77
FNMT	226	0.04	227	0.04	-1.53
Digi-Sign Limited	210	0.04	211	0.04	-1.57
ICP-Brasil	202	0.04	192	0.03	4.05
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	187	0.03	186	0.03	-0.56
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	173	0.03	169	0.03	1.24
National Institute of Informatics	172	0.03	163	0.03	4.36
QuoVadis Limited	166	0.03	143	0.03	14.81
Positive Software	166	0.03	171	0.03	-3.99
RM	164	0.03	163	0.03	-0.49
My Company Ltd	163	0.03	155	0.03	4.01
Apache HTTP Server	163	0.03	148	0.03	8.93
CNRS	159	0.03	155	0.03	1.46
SonicWALL, Inc.	150	0.03	151	0.03	-1.75
OVH SAS	146	0.03	137	0.02	5.40
America Online Inc.	141	0.03	135	0.02	3.30
TNC	130	0.02	127	0.02	1.24
Positive Software Corporation	129	0.02	136	0.02	-6.19
OptimumSSL CA	125	0.02	127	0.02	-2.65
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	124	0.02	122	0.02	0.52
Parallels, Inc.	121	0.02	117	0.02	2.28
Sun Microsystems Inc	119	0.02	112	0.02	5.08
New Dream Network, LLC.	119	0.02	116	0.02	1.46
RegisterFly.com, inc.	117	0.02	119	0.02	-2.76
Default Web Site	116	0.02	116	0.02	-1.10
InterWorx	113	0.02	112	0.02	-0.21
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	112	0.02	84	0.02	31.87
ServerAdmin 24	110	0.02	108	0.02	0.73
RBC Hosting Center	110	0.02	98	0.02	11.01
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	110	0.02	108	0.02	0.73
MULTICERT-CA	103	0.02	109	0.02	-6.54
IceWarp Software	97	0.02	96	0.02	-0.07
GlobalSign Inc	97	0.02	99	0.02	-3.09
Digital Signature Trust Co.	94	0.02	95	0.02	-2.14
Apache Friends	91	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	89	0.02	88	0.02	0.03
ICS_TREE	85	0.02	87	0.02	-3.37
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	83	0.01	77	0.01	6.61
Getronics PinkRoccade Nederland B.V.	83	0.01	84	0.02	-2.27
WoSign, Inc.	81	0.01	78	0.01	2.71
GANDI SAS	78	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.