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Certificate Authority Market Share Report
April 1st, 2012

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 March 2012
Count
March 2012
%
February 2012
Count
February 2012
%
Growth
%
GoDaddy.com, Inc.217,10521.40207,35320.991.95
GeoTrust, Inc.120,01711.83114,48311.592.08
Verisign91,5359.0291,1659.23-2.24
Thawte, Inc.54,8155.4052,9295.360.84
Equifax (Geotrust)49,4984.8852,3565.30-7.95
COMODO CA Limited47,2804.6643,6944.425.36
DigiCert41,7964.1240,5784.110.29
GeoTrust Inc.39,4143.8838,4103.89-0.09
Comodo Limited29,1522.8731,0443.14-8.57
Comodo CA Limited28,7732.8428,7102.91-2.42
Unknown27,7562.7426,4272.672.27
GlobalSign nv-sa25,2352.4924,1412.441.78
Network Solutions L.L.C.21,2902.1020,9252.12-0.93
Starfield Technologies, Inc.18,7991.8518,4341.87-0.70
GlobalSign14,7701.4614,9601.51-3.87
Thawte13,9671.3815,6331.58-13.01
Entrust, Inc.13,2411.3013,0711.32-1.36
TERENA9,5810.949,2720.940.61
SecureTrust Corporation8,7530.867,6750.7811.04
StartCom Ltd.8,1110.807,7560.781.83
AlphaSSL5,1490.514,5680.469.75
Internet25,1280.514,8010.494.00
Parallels5,1180.504,9200.501.29
SomeOrganization4,8990.484,8890.49-2.43
Akamai Technologies Inc4,6030.454,4830.45-0.02
CAcert Inc.3,9990.393,2210.3320.89
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.3,5860.353,5220.36-0.86
Alpha3,3010.333,5540.36-9.56
Volusion, Inc.3,2890.322,9040.2910.28
GeoTrust Inc3,1940.313,0330.312.54
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.2,8640.282,8190.29-1.08
Unizeto Technologies S.A.2,3870.242,0530.2113.21
thawte, Inc.2,3470.232,2770.230.36
Servision Inc.1,8950.191,8780.19-1.75
Root CA1,8660.181,8840.19-3.56
Google Inc1,8660.181,7710.182.59
SWsoft, Inc.1,7990.181,8570.19-5.67
U.S. Government1,4000.141,3760.14-0.93
GTE Corporation1,3560.131,1880.1211.14
Cybertrust Inc1,2750.131,2330.120.69
QuoVadis Limited1,2070.121,1700.120.45
TC TrustCenter GmbH1,2050.121,2160.12-3.51
ispgateway1,0900.111,0700.11-0.81
Register.com1,0670.111,0560.11-1.62
GANDI SAS1,0470.109980.102.15
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority9960.109740.10-0.43
SECOM Trust.net9750.109960.10-4.68
none9730.109660.10-1.93
UIC9450.099390.10-2.01
Snake Oil, Ltd9060.099310.09-5.25
T-Systems International GmbH8190.088150.08-2.15
ips Certification Authority7810.087540.080.86
Sun Microsystems Inc7680.087700.08-2.88
Government of Korea7280.076740.075.17
AusCERT7200.077020.07-0.13
EUNETIC GmbH7030.076930.07-1.23
National Institute of Informatics6630.076640.07-2.78
Autistici/Inventati6440.066160.061.79
Globe Hosting, Inc.6330.065840.065.54
Cybertrust5960.066690.07-13.26
OVH SAS5930.065790.06-0.28
SYS-CON Media5810.0600.00N/A
Parallels, Inc.5670.065530.06-0.17
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.5660.0600.00N/A
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.5120.055170.05-3.57
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.4810.055250.05-10.79
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt4790.054690.05-0.56
Firstserver, Inc4490.044450.05-1.76
Secure Business Services, Inc.4030.044310.04-8.96
OCC4010.043950.04-1.15
FNMT3900.043890.04-2.38
CrossTrust3750.043750.04-2.63
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd3740.043510.043.75
WTF ALFA3600.043590.04-2.36
TAIWAN-CA INC.3560.043390.032.25
TBS INTERNET3520.033520.04-2.63
ICP-Brasil3440.033320.030.89
RBC Hosting Center3370.033290.03-0.26
Zimbra Collaboration Suite3330.033300.03-1.75
Apache HTTP Server3130.033080.03-1.05
Sonera2940.032920.03-1.96
OptimumSSL CA2850.032760.030.54
SonicWALL, Inc.2590.032630.03-4.11
XX2560.032560.03-2.63
Getronics Nederland BV2360.022140.027.38
TDC2250.022260.02-3.06
SwissSign AG2180.022070.022.54
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)1980.021900.021.47
Digi-Sign Limited1880.021890.02-3.15
SiteGround LLC.1830.022000.02-10.91
InterWorx1820.021780.02-0.44
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.1800.021800.02-2.63
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.1770.021700.021.38
Entrust.net1740.021790.02-5.35
Wells Fargo1680.021660.02-1.46
SGssl1640.021620.02-1.43
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)1630.021610.02-1.42
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)1630.021640.02-3.22
My Company Ltd1590.021560.02-0.76
MULTICERT-CA1580.021550.02-0.75

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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