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 2005 Count	July 2005 %	June 2005 Count	June 2005 %	Growth %
Verisign	72,408	32.55	72,399	32.79	-0.73
Equifax (Geotrust)	38,199	17.17	37,668	17.06	0.65
Thawte	37,895	17.04	37,843	17.14	-0.61
Comodo Limited	19,478	8.76	19,009	8.61	1.70
Entrust.net	3,277	1.47	3,270	1.48	-0.53
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	3,162	1.42	2,910	1.32	7.85
SomeOrganization	3,039	1.37	3,047	1.38	-1.01
The USERTRUST Network	3,024	1.36	3,108	1.41	-3.43
Unknown	2,974	1.34	2,865	1.30	3.03
Snake Oil, Ltd	2,045	0.92	2,085	0.94	-2.65
SWsoft, Inc.	1,554	0.70	1,510	0.68	2.15
U.S. Government	1,364	0.61	1,355	0.61	-0.09
ChainedSSL	1,134	0.51	1,044	0.47	7.81
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,028	0.46	986	0.45	3.48
FreeSSL	827	0.37	865	0.39	-5.11
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	716	0.32	699	0.32	1.67
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	701	0.32	693	0.31	0.40
DigiCert Inc.	620	0.28	584	0.26	5.37
GlobalSign nv-sa	504	0.23	495	0.22	1.06
Root CA	369	0.17	346	0.16	5.85
Plesk, Inc.	339	0.15	348	0.16	-3.31
Deutsche Telekom AG	288	0.13	285	0.13	0.30
GTE Corporation	260	0.12	261	0.12	-1.13
Ipswitch,Inc.	222	0.10	229	0.10	-3.78
ispgateway	215	0.10	211	0.10	1.14
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd.	194	0.09	166	0.08	16.00
Your Name Webhosting	157	0.07	151	0.07	3.20
TDC	153	0.07	157	0.07	-3.27
Kubota Systems Inc.	150	0.07	146	0.07	1.97
Plesk Inc.	141	0.06	160	0.07	-12.53
Apache HTTP Server	140	0.06	126	0.06	10.28
Positive Software	111	0.05	114	0.05	-3.36
Thawte Certification	108	0.05	105	0.05	2.09
IceWarp Software	106	0.05	105	0.05	0.20
Akamai	105	0.05	102	0.05	2.17
Baltimore Technologies Japan Co.,Ltd.	104	0.05	118	0.05	-12.52
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	103	0.05	106	0.05	-3.55
Digital Signature Trust Co.	93	0.04	93	0.04	-0.74
My Company Ltd	90	0.04	89	0.04	0.37
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	88	0.04	92	0.04	-5.06
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	82	0.04	81	0.04	0.48
OCC	81	0.04	83	0.04	-3.14
Equifax Secure Inc	75	0.03	82	0.04	-9.22
Comodo Japan Inc.	73	0.03	62	0.03	16.86
Network Solutions L.L.C.	70	0.03	31	0.01	124.12
ICS_TREE	64	0.03	65	0.03	-2.27
Azero	61	0.03	61	0.03	-0.74
CsideNet	56	0.03	56	0.03	-0.74
XYZ Corporation	54	0.02	54	0.02	-0.74
CNRS	52	0.02	50	0.02	3.23
WebMoney Transfer	50	0.02	51	0.02	-2.69
Stunnel Developers Ltd	50	0.02	56	0.03	-11.38
RM	50	0.02	52	0.02	-4.56
CRU	49	0.02	47	0.02	3.48
Japan Certification Services, Inc.	48	0.02	47	0.02	1.37
Sun Microsystems Inc	47	0.02	46	0.02	1.41
ICP-Brasil	44	0.02	45	0.02	-2.95
NTT Communications Corporation	43	0.02	41	0.02	4.10
MULTICERT-CA	43	0.02	43	0.02	-0.74
SCNC	42	0.02	38	0.02	9.70
Firstserver, Inc.	39	0.02	31	0.01	24.87
Beocity	38	0.02	39	0.02	-3.29
Advanced Extranet Server	38	0.02	42	0.02	-10.20
UniCERT Brasil Certificadora	37	0.02	38	0.02	-3.36
Stalker Software, Inc.	36	0.02	37	0.02	-3.43
KICA	36	0.02	38	0.02	-5.97
FNMT	36	0.02	35	0.02	2.09
University of Maryland	33	0.01	31	0.01	5.66
GlobalSign Inc	33	0.01	30	0.01	9.18
Etisalat	33	0.01	32	0.01	2.36
CETI	33	0.01	33	0.01	-0.74
DFN-CERT Services GmbH	32	0.01	33	0.01	-3.75
IceWarp Ltd.	31	0.01	30	0.01	2.56
Webmin Software	30	0.01	31	0.01	-3.95
Your Name	29	0.01	28	0.01	2.80
Temp Certificate!	29	0.01	31	0.01	-7.15
SuSE Linux Web Server	29	0.01	26	0.01	10.71
Carnegie Mellon University	29	0.01	27	0.01	6.61
CFC	29	0.01	28	0.01	2.80
Audkenni hf.	29	0.01	28	0.01	2.80
domainsofnote.com	28	0.01	28	0.01	-0.74
cv. Candi Internet	28	0.01	29	0.01	-4.17
University of Helsinki	28	0.01	28	0.01	-0.74
ORACLE DEMO CA	28	0.01	27	0.01	2.93
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	28	0.01	28	0.01	-0.74
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	27	0.01	32	0.01	-16.25
Sun Cobalt	27	0.01	32	0.01	-16.25
NeoNova B.V.	27	0.01	27	0.01	-0.74
Hostgator	27	0.01	27	0.01	-0.74
Pro Futuro S.A.	26	0.01	23	0.01	12.20
Franke & Partner	26	0.01	26	0.01	-0.74
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	25	0.01	25	0.01	-0.74
ISPAdmin	25	0.01	25	0.01	-0.74
CESNET	25	0.01	26	0.01	-4.56
Brno University of Technology	25	0.01	24	0.01	3.39
websitewelcome.com	24	0.01	22	0.01	8.28
Your Organization	23	0.01	25	0.01	-8.69
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	23	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
S1 Corporation	23	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
WEBMASTERS.COM	22	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.