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	August 2000 Count	August 2000 %	July 2000 Count	July 2000 %	Growth %
Verisign	33,731	60.57	34,849	59.93	1.07
Thawte	16,316	29.30	17,209	29.60	-1.00
Snake Oil, Ltd	651	1.17	685	1.18	-0.77
Equifax Secure Inc	551	0.99	536	0.92	7.34
Entrust.net	159	0.29	160	0.28	3.76
Esat Net	125	0.22	128	0.22	1.97
Unknown	117	0.21	120	0.21	1.81
test	89	0.16	92	0.16	1.01
CETI s.c.	80	0.14	82	0.14	1.87
BroadBand Communications, Inc.	76	0.14	76	0.13	4.42
Corpex Ltd	75	0.13	75	0.13	4.42
U.S. Government	66	0.12	53	0.09	30.03
Franke & Partner	61	0.11	61	0.10	4.42
zNET Internet Services	60	0.11	61	0.10	2.70
Netland Internet Services	56	0.10	55	0.09	6.31
Media3 Technologies L.L.C.	49	0.09	46	0.08	11.23
Web Hosting	43	0.08	43	0.07	4.42
Thawte Certification	41	0.07	34	0.06	25.91
Onyx Internet	39	0.07	40	0.07	1.81
Nordwest.Net	38	0.07	39	0.07	1.74
DeZines Web Hosting	36	0.06	36	0.06	4.42
Vest Internett	35	0.06	0	0.00	N/A
Webmaster	29	0.05	29	0.05	4.42
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	29	0.05	39	0.07	-22.36
Indra's Net, Inc.	28	0.05	28	0.05	4.42
Cybergate	27	0.05	25	0.04	12.77
University of Florida	26	0.05	26	0.04	4.42
Alleanza I.T.B.	24	0.04	26	0.04	-3.62
MBnet Networking Inc.	23	0.04	23	0.04	4.42
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	23	0.04	23	0.04	4.42
Linux Test Server	22	0.04	24	0.04	-4.29
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	22	0.04	22	0.04	4.42
Webkeepers Limited	21	0.04	21	0.04	4.42
the Internet Outlet	20	0.04	22	0.04	-5.08
Superb Internet Corp.	20	0.04	20	0.03	4.42
Spekter Bergen AS	20	0.04	20	0.03	4.42
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	20	0.04	8	0.01	161.04
For Demo Purposes Only	20	0.04	20	0.03	4.42
ANET St. Louis	20	0.04	20	0.03	4.42
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	19	0.03	20	0.03	-0.80
Inter Clear Service Ltd	19	0.03	19	0.03	4.42
CyberGate Inc.	19	0.03	20	0.03	-0.80
UUNET UK	18	0.03	19	0.03	-1.08
Makolab s.c.	18	0.03	18	0.03	4.42
Kubota Systems Inc.	18	0.03	18	0.03	4.42
GlobalSign nv-sa	18	0.03	19	0.03	-1.08
Aktiv!NETZ Internet Presentations GmbH	18	0.03	18	0.03	4.42
Kommunikationssysteme ShE GmbH	17	0.03	17	0.03	4.42
IndyWeb Inc.	17	0.03	17	0.03	4.42
Test Organisation	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.42
Digital Visions	16	0.03	16	0.03	4.42
Covalent Technologies, Inc.	16	0.03	17	0.03	-1.73
WebNexus Communications	15	0.03	15	0.03	4.42
Powersurge Technologies, Inc.	15	0.03	14	0.02	11.87
UBZ	13	0.02	13	0.02	4.42
Peter Andritsch, WebSolutions	13	0.02	13	0.02	4.42
Marketwizz Internet Solutions	13	0.02	12	0.02	13.12
ITBS OnLine	13	0.02	13	0.02	4.42
CyberGate	13	0.02	14	0.02	-3.04
Algarvenet	13	0.02	13	0.02	4.42
SCNC	12	0.02	12	0.02	4.42
Ipswitch,Inc.	12	0.02	8	0.01	56.62
InterX Technologies	11	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Cybermarket	11	0.02	11	0.02	4.42
CyberGate, Inc.	11	0.02	11	0.02	4.42
BelSign NV	11	0.02	20	0.03	-42.57
i-Planet	10	0.02	11	0.02	-5.08
dgSoft Internet Sevices	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.42
University of Economics and BA	10	0.02	11	0.02	-5.08
Swisskey AG	10	0.02	8	0.01	30.52
Radio Data Group Inc	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.42
National Institutes of Health	10	0.02	10	0.02	4.42
University of Oulu	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.42
University of Maryland	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.42
Netlink, Inc.	9	0.02	12	0.02	-21.69
My Company Ltd	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.42
Internet Solutions	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.42
Deutsche Telekom AG	9	0.02	13	0.02	-27.71
A&S Systemtechnik	9	0.02	9	0.02	4.42
Xtended Internet	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.42
University of Helsinki	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.42
Monteuve	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
MFM Communication Software, Inc.	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.42
KPNQwest Czechia s.r.o	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.42
GTM Internet, Inc.	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.42
CTS Network Services	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
CHT Software Service GmbH	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
VonRoll	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Versaggi Information Systems	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
UNISG	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Netland Oy	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
National Renewable Energy Lab	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Media3 Inc	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Kommunedata	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
IPS Seguridad CA	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
FUN Kommunikationssysteme GmbH	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Extend.net	7	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.