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Certificate Authority Market Share Report
October 1st, 2010

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 September 2010
Count
September 2010
%
August 2010
Count
August 2010
%
Growth
%
Equifax (Geotrust)160,66122.74162,01723.37-2.69
GoDaddy.com, Inc.108,51815.36105,09915.161.32
Verisign85,37012.0884,74612.22-1.15
Thawte57,3138.1159,7828.62-5.93
Comodo Limited46,8666.6346,5576.71-1.22
DigiCert20,7722.9419,7822.853.04
Unknown17,5992.4916,9262.442.03
Network Solutions L.L.C.15,5352.2015,1972.190.31
COMODO CA Limited14,0741.9913,5161.952.18
Comodo CA Limited14,0541.9913,5391.951.86
GlobalSign12,5591.7812,2601.770.52
GlobalSign nv-sa12,3541.7512,0291.730.78
Starfield Technologies, Inc.11,9241.6911,6611.680.34
Entrust, Inc.7,7771.107,2531.055.22
Thawte, Inc.6,7210.953,7280.5476.91
SecureTrust Corporation5,9650.845,7930.841.04
TERENA4,6020.654,3030.624.95
SomeOrganization4,0070.574,0050.58-1.82
GeoTrust Inc.3,4420.491,4010.20141.08
Alpha3,3670.483,4030.49-2.91
Parallels2,8570.402,7760.400.99
SWsoft, Inc.2,7070.382,6110.381.74
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.2,4180.342,5420.37-6.66
StartCom Ltd.2,2220.312,0410.296.83
Akamai Technologies Inc2,2120.312,1000.303.36
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.2,1700.312,1270.310.11
Cybertrust1,9090.271,9700.28-4.91
Root CA1,8420.261,8170.26-0.52
GeoTrust, Inc.1,8200.268360.12113.63
Entrust.net1,6500.231,9790.29-18.19
Servision Inc.1,3740.191,3260.191.68
CAcert Inc.1,3710.191,3360.190.70
thawte, Inc.1,3590.191,2820.184.02
SECOM Trust.net1,3210.191,3340.19-2.83
U.S. Government1,2970.181,2740.18-0.10
Secure Business Services, Inc.1,2850.181,2750.18-1.10
Snake Oil, Ltd1,2150.171,2100.17-1.47
Unizeto Technologies S.A.1,1960.171,1310.163.77
GeoTrust Inc1,0490.157330.1140.43
TC TrustCenter GmbH9940.149310.134.77
ips Certification Authority9640.149470.14-0.11
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.8940.136200.0941.49
ispgateway8110.118000.12-0.52
Google Inc7680.117470.110.89
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH7570.117490.11-0.82
UIC7390.107150.101.42
GTE Corporation7320.107030.102.18
Register.com7050.106910.100.12
Cybertrust Inc6980.106650.103.00
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority6910.106420.095.62
QuoVadis Limited6170.095790.084.57
none5340.085090.072.95
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.4770.074690.07-0.20
GANDI SAS4160.063910.064.40
Firstserver, Inc4140.064020.061.06
National Institute of Informatics3820.053640.052.98
EUNETIC GmbH3630.053140.0513.44
OCC3610.053600.05-1.60
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.3340.053110.045.38
Sonera3330.053340.05-2.17
TBS INTERNET3250.053220.05-0.96
suresupport.com3240.053290.05-3.36
Parallels, Inc.3070.043010.040.08
WTF ALFA3030.042980.04-0.23
FNMT2950.042910.04-0.52
AusCERT2860.042610.047.53
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd2800.042750.04-0.09
ICP-Brasil2640.042570.040.80
IPS Certification Authority s.l.2620.042800.04-8.18
OVH SAS2610.042920.04-12.29
TDC2560.042520.04-0.32
Apache HTTP Server2450.032320.033.63
GLOBE HOSTING CERTIFICATION AUTHORITY2370.032410.03-3.50
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt2110.032090.03-0.93
SonicWALL, Inc.2050.032030.03-0.91
Government of Korea1980.031800.037.94
Digi-Sign Limited1940.031890.030.72
Firstserver, Inc.1920.032770.04-31.98
RBC Hosting Center1900.031880.03-0.83
Zimbra Collaboration Suite1720.021670.021.07
Getronics PinkRoccade Nederland B.V.1640.021570.022.50
Positive Software1620.021630.02-2.47
SiteGround LLC.1610.021570.020.63
OptimumSSL CA1570.021560.02-1.24
America Online Inc.1560.021680.02-8.88
My Company Ltd1540.021590.02-4.96
CNRS1520.021430.024.30
XX1440.021300.028.69
InterWorx1440.021370.023.14
AddTrust AB1410.021550.02-10.74
TNC1390.021400.02-2.57
XRamp Security Services Inc1290.021270.02-0.33
RM1290.021330.02-4.82
WoSign, Inc.1250.021170.024.84
New Dream Network, LLC.1250.021250.02-1.87
MULTICERT-CA1180.021150.020.69
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)1140.0200.00N/A
Wells Fargo1120.021080.021.76
Sun Microsystems Inc1110.021100.02-0.98
DigiNotar B.V.1070.021050.02-0.00

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.



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