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	October 2000 Count	October 2000 %	September 2000 Count	September 2000 %	Growth %
Verisign	33,645	58.30	33,442	58.85	-0.92
Thawte	17,765	30.78	17,296	30.43	1.15
Snake Oil, Ltd	855	1.48	794	1.40	6.04
Equifax Secure Inc	748	1.30	710	1.25	3.75
Entrust.net	170	0.29	168	0.30	-0.35
Unknown	149	0.26	139	0.24	5.56
Esat Net	109	0.19	122	0.21	-12.02
U.S. Government	83	0.14	77	0.14	6.15
CETI s.c.	79	0.14	79	0.14	-1.52
Corpex Ltd	73	0.13	74	0.13	-2.85
Thawte Certification	62	0.11	47	0.08	29.91
Franke & Partner	60	0.10	60	0.11	-1.52
zNET Internet Services	54	0.09	33	0.06	61.15
Netland Internet Services	51	0.09	56	0.10	-10.31
Media3 Technologies L.L.C.	48	0.08	36	0.06	31.30
Web Hosting	41	0.07	42	0.07	-3.87
TAT GmbH	41	0.07	43	0.08	-6.10
Onyx Internet	40	0.07	41	0.07	-3.92
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	39	0.07	37	0.07	3.80
Nordwest.Net	38	0.07	39	0.07	-4.05
Linux Test Server	35	0.06	34	0.06	1.37
BroadBand Communications, Inc.	35	0.06	34	0.06	1.37
DeZines Web Hosting	34	0.06	35	0.06	-4.34
Vest Internett	33	0.06	35	0.06	-7.15
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	33	0.06	9	0.02	261.09
Northsky	27	0.05	15	0.03	77.26
Indra's Net, Inc.	27	0.05	27	0.05	-1.52
Cybergate	27	0.05	26	0.05	2.27
Webmaster	26	0.05	28	0.05	-8.56
University of Florida	26	0.05	26	0.05	-1.52
Kubota Systems Inc.	24	0.04	20	0.04	18.17
Alleanza I.T.B.	24	0.04	24	0.04	-1.52
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	22	0.04	23	0.04	-5.80
MBnet Networking Inc.	21	0.04	22	0.04	-6.00
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	20	0.03	21	0.04	-6.21
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	20	0.03	20	0.04	-1.52
For Demo Purposes Only	20	0.03	20	0.04	-1.52
ANET St. Louis	20	0.03	20	0.04	-1.52
the Internet Outlet	19	0.03	20	0.04	-6.45
Webkeepers Limited	19	0.03	19	0.03	-1.52
Superb Internet Corp.	19	0.03	19	0.03	-1.52
SCNC	19	0.03	19	0.03	-1.52
ChilNet S.A.	19	0.03	20	0.04	-6.45
Test Organisation	18	0.03	19	0.03	-6.70
Inter Clear Service Ltd	18	0.03	18	0.03	-1.52
Covalent Technologies, Inc.	18	0.03	17	0.03	4.27
UUNET UK	17	0.03	17	0.03	-1.52
Aktiv!NETZ Internet Presentations GmbH	17	0.03	18	0.03	-6.99
Kommunikationssysteme ShE GmbH	16	0.03	17	0.03	-7.31
IndyWeb Inc.	16	0.03	16	0.03	-1.52
Spekter Bergen AS	15	0.03	15	0.03	-1.52
CyberGate Inc.	15	0.03	17	0.03	-13.11
comDesign	14	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Digital Visions	14	0.02	16	0.03	-13.83
Wantree Internet	13	0.02	14	0.02	-8.56
Marketwizz Internet Solutions	13	0.02	13	0.02	-1.52
Ipswitch,Inc.	13	0.02	16	0.03	-19.99
ITBS OnLine	13	0.02	13	0.02	-1.52
GlobalSign nv-sa	13	0.02	13	0.02	-1.52
Deutsche Telekom AG	13	0.02	13	0.02	-1.52
Algarvenet	13	0.02	13	0.02	-1.52
i-Planet	12	0.02	12	0.02	-1.52
ProSalg as	12	0.02	12	0.02	-1.52
Powersurge Technologies, Inc.	12	0.02	12	0.02	-1.52
InterX Technologies	11	0.02	11	0.02	-1.52
Cybermarket	11	0.02	11	0.02	-1.52
dgSoft Internet Sevices	10	0.02	10	0.02	-1.52
WebNexus Communications	10	0.02	13	0.02	-24.25
University of Economics and BA	10	0.02	11	0.02	-10.47
UNI-REGENSBURG	10	0.02	9	0.02	9.42
Swisskey AG	10	0.02	10	0.02	-1.52
Radio Data Group Inc	10	0.02	10	0.02	-1.52
National Institutes of Health	10	0.02	10	0.02	-1.52
Estore Corp	10	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
CyberGate	10	0.02	12	0.02	-17.93
BelSign NV	10	0.02	11	0.02	-10.47
University of Oulu	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.52
University of Maryland	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.52
My Company Ltd	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.52
Interzona.net srl	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.52
Internet Solutions	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.52
IPS Seguridad CA	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.52
CyberGate, Inc.	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.52
BSG	9	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
A&S Systemtechnik	9	0.02	9	0.02	-1.52
University of Helsinki	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.52
USMC	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.52
Netalia Internet Ltd	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.52
NECTEC	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.52
Monteuve	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.52
MFM Communication Software, Inc.	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.52
Inficad Computing and Design	8	0.01	9	0.02	-12.46
GTM Internet, Inc.	8	0.01	8	0.01	-1.52
VonRoll	7	0.01	7	0.01	-1.52
Versaggi Information Systems	7	0.01	7	0.01	-1.52
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Norwegian University of Science and Technology	7	0.01	7	0.01	-1.52
Netlink, Inc.	7	0.01	7	0.01	-1.52
Netland Oy	7	0.01	7	0.01	-1.52

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.