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	May 2000 Count	May 2000 %	April 2000 Count	April 2000 %	Growth %
Verisign	35,912	62.38	35,544	62.44	-0.10
Thawte	16,007	27.80	16,042	28.18	-1.34
Snake Oil, Ltd	500	0.87	504	0.89	-1.91
Equifax Secure Inc	204	0.35	136	0.24	48.32
Entrust.net	160	0.28	114	0.20	38.78
Esat Net	126	0.22	133	0.23	-6.32
test	100	0.17	101	0.18	-2.10
Unknown	99	0.17	92	0.16	6.40
CETI s.c.	92	0.16	93	0.16	-2.18
BusinessNet Danmark	81	0.14	92	0.16	-12.94
Corpex Ltd	78	0.14	81	0.14	-4.78
BroadBand Communications, Inc.	78	0.14	83	0.15	-7.08
zNET Internet Services	66	0.11	67	0.12	-2.60
Franke & Partner	63	0.11	63	0.11	-1.12
Netland Internet Services	60	0.10	59	0.10	0.56
Angela Instruments	53	0.09	53	0.09	-1.12
Media3 Technologies L.L.C.	49	0.09	45	0.08	7.67
TAT GmbH	48	0.08	49	0.09	-3.14
Onyx Internet	46	0.08	44	0.08	3.37
SGH Internet Division	44	0.08	40	0.07	8.77
Web Hosting	41	0.07	43	0.08	-5.72
Nordwest.Net	39	0.07	39	0.07	-1.12
Deutsche Telekom AG	36	0.06	35	0.06	1.70
DeZines Web Hosting	36	0.06	36	0.06	-1.12
Vest Internett	35	0.06	35	0.06	-1.12
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	35	0.06	35	0.06	-1.12
Indra's Net, Inc.	32	0.06	19	0.03	66.53
Thawte Certification	31	0.05	32	0.06	-4.21
Webmaster	29	0.05	30	0.05	-4.42
Marketing Factory Consulting GmbH	28	0.05	28	0.05	-1.12
CyberGate	28	0.05	19	0.03	45.72
Alleanza I.T.B.	28	0.05	30	0.05	-7.71
Cybergate	27	0.05	0	0.00	N/A
University of Florida	26	0.05	26	0.05	-1.12
U.S. Government	26	0.05	18	0.03	42.83
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	25	0.04	26	0.05	-4.92
BelSign NV	24	0.04	21	0.04	13.01
ANET St. Louis	24	0.04	24	0.04	-1.12
For Demo Purposes Only	23	0.04	15	0.03	51.62
the Internet Outlet	22	0.04	22	0.04	-1.12
USA OnRamp	22	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
Inter Clear Service Ltd	22	0.04	22	0.04	-1.12
ChilNet S.A.	22	0.04	22	0.04	-1.12
Spekter Bergen AS	21	0.04	12	0.02	73.04
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	21	0.04	0	0.00	N/A
Webkeepers Limited	20	0.03	17	0.03	16.33
Kommunikationssysteme ShE GmbH	19	0.03	19	0.03	-1.12
Internet Marketing Services, LLC	19	0.03	19	0.03	-1.12
Covalent Technologies, Inc.	19	0.03	13	0.02	44.52
UUNET UK	18	0.03	18	0.03	-1.12
Test Organisation	18	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	18	0.03	14	0.02	27.13
Makolab s.c.	18	0.03	18	0.03	-1.12
MBnet Networking Inc.	18	0.03	33	0.06	-46.07
Wantree Internet	17	0.03	17	0.03	-1.12
Digital Visions	17	0.03	17	0.03	-1.12
WebNexus Communications	16	0.03	17	0.03	-6.94
PAZ - Editora Multimedia, Lda	16	0.03	54	0.09	-70.70
My Company Ltd	16	0.03	16	0.03	-1.12
Powersurge Technologies, Inc.	15	0.03	16	0.03	-7.30
Nirulas Corner House Limited	15	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
Netlink, Inc.	15	0.03	16	0.03	-7.30
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	15	0.03	9	0.02	64.80
GlobalSign nv-sa	15	0.03	15	0.03	-1.12
EUNOC	15	0.03	15	0.03	-1.12
Kubota Systems Inc.	14	0.02	13	0.02	6.49
Domains Worldwide	14	0.02	17	0.03	-18.57
Algarvenet	14	0.02	15	0.03	-7.71
University of Economics and BA	13	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
UBZ	13	0.02	12	0.02	7.12
Peter Andritsch, WebSolutions	13	0.02	10	0.02	28.54
Marketwizz Internet Solutions	13	0.02	13	0.02	-1.12
Dialtone Internet	13	0.02	11	0.02	16.86
CyberGate, Inc.	13	0.02	13	0.02	-1.12
ProSalg as	12	0.02	11	0.02	7.87
InterAccess, Co.	12	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Cybermarket	12	0.02	12	0.02	-1.12
CyberGate Hosting	12	0.02	19	0.03	-37.55
Superb Internet Corp.	11	0.02	23	0.04	-52.71
Schell Computersysteme	11	0.02	11	0.02	-1.12
InterX Technologies	11	0.02	11	0.02	-1.12
IndyWeb Inc.	11	0.02	18	0.03	-39.57
Fishnet NewMedia	11	0.02	11	0.02	-1.12
dgSoft Internet Sevices	10	0.02	10	0.02	-1.12
Swisskey AG	10	0.02	10	0.02	-1.12
SCNC	10	0.02	11	0.02	-10.11
National Institutes of Health	10	0.02	10	0.02	-1.12
Admaze Internet	10	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
A&S Systemtechnik	10	0.02	10	0.02	-1.12
i-Planet	9	0.02	13	0.02	-31.54
Webit Marketing Inc	9	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Sistema S.A	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.12
QDnet ISP	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.12
OKS	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.12
Monteuve	9	0.02	8	0.01	11.24
KPNQwest Czechia s.r.o	9	0.02	11	0.02	-19.10
Internet Solutions	9	0.02	10	0.02	-11.01
BizNet Communications, Inc.	9	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Xtended Internet	8	0.01	7	0.01	13.01
WorldSpice Technologies, Inc.	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.12

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.