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	February 2001 Count	February 2001 %	January 2001 Count	January 2001 %	Growth %
Verisign	32,384	54.85	32,870	55.84	-1.77
Thawte	19,017	32.21	18,904	32.12	0.30
Equifax Secure Inc	1,237	2.10	952	1.62	29.55
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,067	1.81	967	1.64	10.01
SomeOrganization	306	0.52	287	0.49	6.30
Unknown	260	0.44	245	0.42	5.81
Entrust.net	167	0.28	165	0.28	0.91
WWW-Service Online Dienstleistungen GmbH	135	0.23	0	0.00	N/A
U.S. Government	121	0.20	115	0.20	4.90
Esat Net	112	0.19	112	0.19	-0.30
Easynet France	82	0.14	83	0.14	-1.50
*.ceti.pl	75	0.13	0	0.00	N/A
Ring d.o.o.	72	0.12	0	0.00	N/A
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	72	0.12	59	0.10	21.67
Corpex Ltd	65	0.11	66	0.11	-1.81
Franke & Partner	58	0.10	59	0.10	-1.99
zNET Internet Services	54	0.09	55	0.09	-2.11
Netland Internet Services	50	0.08	51	0.09	-2.25
Media3 Technologies L.L.C.	47	0.08	48	0.08	-2.38
Thawte Certification	46	0.08	43	0.07	6.66
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	46	0.08	40	0.07	14.66
Web Hosting	39	0.07	38	0.06	2.33
Onyx Internet	39	0.07	39	0.07	-0.30
BSG	35	0.06	31	0.05	12.57
Nordwest.Net	34	0.06	35	0.06	-3.15
BroadBand Communications, Inc.	33	0.06	33	0.06	-0.30
TAT GmbH	31	0.05	32	0.05	-3.41
DeZines Web Hosting	31	0.05	31	0.05	-0.30
Vest Internett	30	0.05	30	0.05	-0.30
Webmaster	28	0.05	27	0.05	3.39
Kubota Systems Inc.	27	0.05	28	0.05	-3.86
University of Florida	26	0.04	26	0.04	-0.30
Indra's Net, Inc.	26	0.04	27	0.05	-3.99
Linux Test Server	24	0.04	23	0.04	4.04
Alleanza I.T.B.	23	0.04	23	0.04	-0.30
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	21	0.04	21	0.04	-0.30
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	20	0.03	20	0.03	-0.30
UUNET UK	19	0.03	17	0.03	11.43
ANET St. Louis	19	0.03	19	0.03	-0.30
SCNC	18	0.03	19	0.03	-5.55
Inter Clear Service Ltd	18	0.03	18	0.03	-0.30
Superb Internet Corp.	17	0.03	18	0.03	-5.84
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	17	0.03	16	0.03	5.93
IndyWeb Inc.	16	0.03	16	0.03	-0.30
For Demo Purposes Only	16	0.03	14	0.02	13.95
Deutsche Telekom AG	16	0.03	15	0.03	6.35
Aktiv!NETZ Internet Presentations GmbH	16	0.03	17	0.03	-6.16
ProSalg as	15	0.03	15	0.03	-0.30
Plesk Inc.	15	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
GlobalSign nv-sa	15	0.03	13	0.02	15.04
comDesign	14	0.02	14	0.02	-0.30
Ipswitch,Inc.	13	0.02	13	0.02	-0.30
Estore Corp	13	0.02	13	0.02	-0.30
Advanced Extranet Server	13	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Swisskey AG	12	0.02	9	0.02	32.94
Powersurge Technologies, Inc.	12	0.02	12	0.02	-0.30
Media3 Inc	12	0.02	12	0.02	-0.30
Marketwizz Internet Solutions	12	0.02	12	0.02	-0.30
Kommunikationssysteme ShE GmbH	12	0.02	13	0.02	-7.97
i-Planet	11	0.02	11	0.02	-0.30
Oy Multi.fi Finland Ab Ltd.	11	0.02	11	0.02	-0.30
InterX Technologies	11	0.02	11	0.02	-0.30
ITBS OnLine	11	0.02	12	0.02	-8.61
GTE Corporation	11	0.02	9	0.02	21.86
Cybermarket	11	0.02	11	0.02	-0.30
Covalent Technologies, Inc.	11	0.02	14	0.02	-21.66
Algarvenet	11	0.02	11	0.02	-0.30
WebNexus Communications	10	0.02	9	0.02	10.78
Wantree Internet	10	0.02	12	0.02	-16.92
University of Maryland	10	0.02	10	0.02	-0.30
University of Economics and BA	10	0.02	11	0.02	-9.36
Digital Visions	10	0.02	12	0.02	-16.92
phpwebhosting.com	9	0.02	9	0.02	-0.30
dgSoft Internet Sevices	9	0.02	8	0.01	12.16
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	9	0.02	9	0.02	-0.30
CyberGate	9	0.02	9	0.02	-0.30
the Internet Outlet	8	0.01	9	0.02	-11.38
University of Mainz	8	0.01	8	0.01	-0.30
University of Helsinki	8	0.01	8	0.01	-0.30
Test Organisation	8	0.01	19	0.03	-58.02
Radio Data Group Inc	8	0.01	20	0.03	-60.12
MFM Communication Software, Inc.	8	0.01	7	0.01	13.95
Idonex AB	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
IPS Seguridad CA	8	0.01	8	0.01	-0.30
GTM Internet, Inc.	8	0.01	8	0.01	-0.30
CyberTrust	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
A&S Systemtechnik	8	0.01	8	0.01	-0.30
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	7	0.01	7	0.01	-0.30
USMC	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
UNI-REGENSBURG	7	0.01	8	0.01	-12.76
Tampere University of Technology	7	0.01	7	0.01	-0.30
NIH	7	0.01	7	0.01	-0.30
Monteuve	7	0.01	7	0.01	-0.30
MBnet Networking Inc.	7	0.01	8	0.01	-12.76
Kommunedata	7	0.01	7	0.01	-0.30
Interzona.net srl	7	0.01	8	0.01	-12.76
Internet Solutions	7	0.01	9	0.02	-22.45
IPrimus USA	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
FUN Kommunikationssysteme GmbH	7	0.01	7	0.01	-0.30
Extend.net	7	0.01	7	0.01	-0.30

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.