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 only uses the issuer Organization Name to uniquely identify the issuing CA.

CA	July 2004 Count	July 2004 %	June 2004 Count	June 2004 %	Growth %
Verisign	70,617	38.01	69,861	38.48	-1.22
Thawte	35,032	18.85	34,619	19.07	-1.11
Equifax (Geotrust)	28,760	15.48	27,796	15.31	1.11
Comodo Limited	13,302	7.16	12,684	6.99	2.48
SomeOrganization	2,791	1.50	2,737	1.51	-0.35
Entrust.net	2,445	1.32	2,383	1.31	0.26
Snake Oil, Ltd	2,313	1.24	2,248	1.24	0.55
The USERTRUST Network	1,412	0.76	1,155	0.64	19.47
U.S. Government	1,299	0.70	1,264	0.70	0.43
Unknown	1,272	0.68	1,158	0.64	7.34
FreeSSL	814	0.44	801	0.44	-0.69
SWsoft, Inc.	649	0.35	554	0.31	14.48
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	540	0.29	536	0.30	-1.55
Plesk, Inc.	515	0.28	518	0.29	-2.84
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	491	0.26	473	0.26	1.44
GlobalSign nv-sa	360	0.19	347	0.19	1.38
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	313	0.17	211	0.12	44.96
XRamp Security Services Inc	259	0.14	203	0.11	24.68
Plesk Inc.	258	0.14	284	0.16	-11.22
Ipswitch,Inc.	232	0.12	239	0.13	-5.14
Deutsche Telekom AG	205	0.11	225	0.12	-10.96
Baltimore Technologies Japan Co.,Ltd.	169	0.09	164	0.09	0.70
ispgateway	146	0.08	142	0.08	0.47
Thawte Certification	123	0.07	118	0.06	1.86
GTE Corporation	119	0.06	230	0.13	-49.44
Equifax Secure Inc	117	0.06	129	0.07	-11.37
Kubota Systems Inc.	113	0.06	110	0.06	0.39
IceWarp Software	91	0.05	84	0.05	5.87
Root CA	90	0.05	55	0.03	59.91
Digital Signature Trust Co.	90	0.05	87	0.05	1.09
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	81	0.04	80	0.04	-1.06
Apache HTTP Server	80	0.04	76	0.04	2.87
TDC	75	0.04	73	0.04	0.40
Positive Software	73	0.04	76	0.04	-6.14
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	69	0.04	64	0.04	5.36
XYZ Corporation	60	0.03	57	0.03	2.87
United Network Communications Co., Ltd.	59	0.03	49	0.03	17.67
Akamai	56	0.03	51	0.03	7.30
Advanced Extranet Server	54	0.03	52	0.03	1.48
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	53	0.03	51	0.03	1.55
CsideNet	52	0.03	51	0.03	-0.36
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	51	0.03	47	0.03	6.04
Azero	47	0.03	36	0.02	27.58
ICS_TREE	45	0.02	35	0.02	25.64
OCC	42	0.02	42	0.02	-2.28
WebMoney Transfer	41	0.02	39	0.02	2.73
CETI	41	0.02	42	0.02	-4.60
Webmin Software	40	0.02	40	0.02	-2.28
Beocity	40	0.02	40	0.02	-2.28
SCNC	39	0.02	31	0.02	22.94
University of Florida	38	0.02	40	0.02	-7.16
KICA	38	0.02	36	0.02	3.15
Your Name Webhosting	37	0.02	25	0.01	44.63
Communitymusician	37	0.02	37	0.02	-2.28
Sun Cobalt	36	0.02	37	0.02	-4.92
CNRS	34	0.02	33	0.02	0.68
Sun Microsystems Inc	32	0.02	31	0.02	0.87
Stalker Software, Inc.	32	0.02	34	0.02	-8.03
MULTICERT-CA	32	0.02	29	0.02	7.83
Hurricane Electric Internet Services	32	0.02	34	0.02	-8.03
NeoNova B.V.	31	0.02	32	0.02	-5.33
Japan Certification Services, Inc.	31	0.02	29	0.02	4.46
Stunnel Developers Ltd	30	0.02	28	0.02	4.70
ICP-Brasil	30	0.02	28	0.02	4.70
cv. Candi Internet	28	0.02	28	0.02	-2.28
University of Maryland	28	0.02	29	0.02	-5.65
UniCERT Brasil Certificadora	27	0.01	26	0.01	1.48
RM	27	0.01	21	0.01	25.64
domainsofnote.com	26	0.01	25	0.01	1.63
Tele Danmark	26	0.01	29	0.02	-12.39
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	26	0.01	26	0.01	-2.28
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	26	0.01	27	0.01	-5.90
Franke & Partner	26	0.01	27	0.01	-5.90
Ensim Corporation	26	0.01	27	0.01	-5.90
Temp Certificate!	25	0.01	26	0.01	-6.04
pair Networks	24	0.01	24	0.01	-2.28
PVT a.s.	23	0.01	22	0.01	2.16
My Company Ltd	23	0.01	19	0.01	18.29
FNMT	23	0.01	23	0.01	-2.28
Carnegie Mellon University	23	0.01	23	0.01	-2.28
CRU	23	0.01	21	0.01	7.03
Audkenni hf.	23	0.01	23	0.01	-2.28
Your Organization	22	0.01	24	0.01	-10.42
ROOT	22	0.01	20	0.01	7.49
Pro Futuro S.A.	22	0.01	21	0.01	2.38
Etisalat	22	0.01	21	0.01	2.38
DNS Anonym	22	0.01	26	0.01	-17.31
University of Helsinki	21	0.01	21	0.01	-2.28
Postecom s.p.a.	21	0.01	22	0.01	-6.72
Deutsches Forschungsnetz	21	0.01	24	0.01	-14.49
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.	21	0.01	20	0.01	2.61
1&1 Internet Limited	21	0.01	21	0.01	-2.28
beTRUSTed	20	0.01	20	0.01	-2.28
Hongkong Post	20	0.01	19	0.01	2.87
FAS	20	0.01	20	0.01	-2.28
SCANDTRUST AB	19	0.01	20	0.01	-7.16
Onyx Internet	19	0.01	19	0.01	-2.28
DFN-CERT Services GmbH	19	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Cardiff Schools	19	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
The Chinese University of Hong Kong	18	0.01	18	0.01	-2.28

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.