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	August 2014 Count	August 2014 %	July 2014 Count	July 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	356,855	19.54	353,475	19.77	-1.18
GeoTrust, Inc.	307,717	16.85	316,009	17.68	-4.68
COMODO CA Limited	200,440	10.98	196,913	11.02	-0.36
DigiCert	140,299	7.68	126,542	7.08	8.53
Verisign	95,860	5.25	97,181	5.44	-3.44
GeoTrust Inc.	83,188	4.56	78,639	4.40	3.55
GlobalSign nv-sa	80,392	4.40	77,948	4.36	0.96
Thawte, Inc.	78,467	4.30	78,485	4.39	-2.14
GANDI SAS	51,326	2.81	35,986	2.01	39.61
Unknown	40,556	2.22	40,181	2.25	-1.20
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	36,787	2.01	36,362	2.03	-0.97
Network Solutions L.L.C.	29,509	1.62	30,130	1.69	-4.13
StartCom Ltd.	26,602	1.46	23,675	1.32	9.99
AlphaSSL	21,719	1.19	22,257	1.25	-4.48
Entrust, Inc.	20,557	1.13	20,442	1.14	-1.56
Internet2	18,886	1.03	18,598	1.04	-0.60
TERENA	18,396	1.01	18,396	1.03	-2.11
Cybertrust Inc	16,059	0.88	15,652	0.88	0.43
Parallels	11,673	0.64	11,417	0.64	0.08
Volusion, Inc.	8,617	0.47	8,649	0.48	-2.48
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	8,083	0.44	7,881	0.44	0.40
Microsoft Corporation	7,758	0.42	7,417	0.41	2.39
SomeOrganization	6,810	0.37	6,698	0.37	-0.48
CompanyName	6,793	0.37	6,357	0.36	4.60
Equifax (Geotrust)	6,346	0.35	6,690	0.37	-7.15
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	5,552	0.30	5,439	0.30	-0.08
Google Inc	5,271	0.29	5,027	0.28	2.64
Comodo Limited	5,266	0.29	5,842	0.33	-11.76
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,755	0.26	4,748	0.27	-1.97
thawte, Inc.	4,503	0.25	4,417	0.25	-0.21
Comodo CA Limited	4,192	0.23	4,389	0.25	-6.51
GeoTrust Inc	3,969	0.22	4,377	0.24	-11.24
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,929	0.22	3,975	0.22	-3.25
SecureTrust Corporation	3,360	0.18	3,478	0.19	-5.43
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	2,760	0.15	2,795	0.16	-3.34
Servision Inc.	2,721	0.15	2,703	0.15	-1.46
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,539	0.14	2,468	0.14	0.70
none	2,390	0.13	2,314	0.13	1.10
Symantec Corporation	2,273	0.12	1,294	0.07	71.95
Thawte	2,256	0.12	2,323	0.13	-4.94
ispgateway	2,164	0.12	2,110	0.12	0.39
QuoVadis Limited	2,044	0.11	2,027	0.11	-1.29
Root CA	1,693	0.09	1,760	0.10	-5.84
Government of Korea	1,504	0.08	1,473	0.08	-0.05
CAcert Inc.	1,466	0.08	1,458	0.08	-1.58
U.S. Government	1,432	0.08	1,444	0.08	-2.93
T-Systems International GmbH	1,357	0.07	1,341	0.08	-0.95
Register.com	1,343	0.07	1,357	0.08	-3.12
National Institute of Informatics	1,328	0.07	1,311	0.07	-0.84
AusCERT	1,324	0.07	1,305	0.07	-0.69
Autistici/Inventati	1,278	0.07	854	0.05	46.49
EUNETIC GmbH	1,110	0.06	1,099	0.06	-1.13
UIC	1,080	0.06	1,075	0.06	-1.66
Intermediate Certificate	1,017	0.06	970	0.05	2.63
TAIWAN-CA INC.	1,001	0.05	986	0.06	-0.62
NetLock Kft.	830	0.05	828	0.05	-1.88
Trend Micro Inc	810	0.04	783	0.04	1.26
GlobalSign	804	0.04	840	0.05	-6.31
Parallels, Inc.	791	0.04	822	0.05	-5.80
SWsoft, Inc.	712	0.04	732	0.04	-4.79
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	677	0.04	660	0.04	0.41
DreamHost	674	0.04	603	0.03	9.41
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	642	0.04	615	0.03	2.18
Snake Oil, Ltd	626	0.03	635	0.04	-3.50
SwissSign AG	563	0.03	557	0.03	-1.06
FNMT	547	0.03	553	0.03	-3.18
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	539	0.03	530	0.03	-0.45
ICP-Brasil	528	0.03	525	0.03	-1.55
TBS INTERNET	474	0.03	474	0.03	-2.11
SGssl	473	0.03	460	0.03	0.65
Firstserver, Inc	464	0.03	470	0.03	-3.36
OCC	454	0.02	457	0.03	-2.76
Alpha	446	0.02	465	0.03	-6.11
CrossTrust	435	0.02	436	0.02	-2.34
JSC Regional Network Information Center	432	0.02	408	0.02	3.65
KEYNECTIS	431	0.02	410	0.02	2.90
Zimbra Collaboration Server	413	0.02	413	0.02	-2.11
SSL.com	403	0.02	377	0.02	4.64
KPN Corporate Market BV	396	0.02	371	0.02	4.48
OptimumSSL CA	378	0.02	318	0.02	16.36
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	344	0.02	358	0.02	-5.94
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	335	0.02	346	0.02	-5.22
ACCV	327	0.02	283	0.02	13.11
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	325	0.02	325	0.02	-2.11
XX	321	0.02	327	0.02	-3.91
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	311	0.02	306	0.02	-0.51
Vodafone Group	278	0.02	272	0.02	0.05
INTERWORX LLC	276	0.02	228	0.01	18.49
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	274	0.02	282	0.02	-4.89
GAD EG	273	0.01	264	0.01	1.22
TC TrustCenter GmbH	267	0.01	293	0.02	-10.80
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	246	0.01	244	0.01	-1.31
ips Certification Authority	243	0.01	261	0.01	-8.86
Pavel&Pavel	243	0.01	242	0.01	-1.71
Getronics Nederland BV	234	0.01	257	0.01	-10.87
Apache HTTP Server	233	0.01	231	0.01	-1.27
Dotname Korea Corp.	231	0.01	256	0.01	-11.67
Wells Fargo	214	0.01	212	0.01	-1.19
Universitaet Stuttgart	203	0.01	210	0.01	-5.38
SonicWALL, Inc.	203	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.