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 2001 Count	August 2001 %	July 2001 Count	July 2001 %	Growth %
Verisign	30,114	48.31	29,629	48.83	-1.06
Thawte	20,805	33.37	20,139	33.19	0.56
Equifax Secure Inc	3,535	5.67	3,490	5.75	-1.40
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,279	2.05	1,257	2.07	-0.95
SomeOrganization	744	1.19	513	0.85	41.17
Unknown	552	0.89	525	0.87	2.35
Entrust.net	297	0.48	272	0.45	6.29
U.S. Government	196	0.31	181	0.30	5.41
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	127	0.20	127	0.21	-2.66
Esat Net	94	0.15	91	0.15	0.55
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	75	0.12	71	0.12	2.83
*.ceti.pl	72	0.12	72	0.12	-2.66
Ring Datacom	69	0.11	69	0.11	-2.66
ProAxis Communications, a us.Net company	59	0.09	60	0.10	-4.28
Franke & Partner	58	0.09	58	0.10	-2.66
Thawte Certification	54	0.09	55	0.09	-4.43
Plesk Inc.	54	0.09	47	0.08	11.84
Kubota Systems Inc.	48	0.08	46	0.08	1.57
Netland Internet Services	46	0.07	49	0.08	-8.62
Corpex Ltd	46	0.07	48	0.08	-6.71
zNET Internet Services	44	0.07	41	0.07	4.46
BSG	44	0.07	41	0.07	4.46
Media3 Technologies L.L.C.	37	0.06	38	0.06	-5.22
Web Hosting	36	0.06	37	0.06	-5.29
GlobalSign nv-sa	33	0.05	31	0.05	3.62
Onyx Internet	31	0.05	31	0.05	-2.66
Zet.no	29	0.05	0	0.00	N/A
Deutsche Telekom AG	29	0.05	23	0.04	22.74
DeZines Web Hosting	28	0.04	28	0.05	-2.66
Advanced Extranet Server	28	0.04	23	0.04	18.50
University of Florida	27	0.04	26	0.04	1.09
GTE Corporation	27	0.04	25	0.04	5.13
Indra's Net, Inc.	25	0.04	25	0.04	-2.66
helpdesk.powercom.net	23	0.04	23	0.04	-2.66
Linux Test Server	22	0.04	22	0.04	-2.66
SCNC	21	0.03	20	0.03	2.21
Radio Data Group Inc	20	0.03	20	0.03	-2.66
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	20	0.03	20	0.03	-2.66
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation	20	0.03	20	0.03	-2.66
TAT GmbH	18	0.03	28	0.05	-37.42
UUNET UK	17	0.03	17	0.03	-2.66
Makolab s.c.	17	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
Ipswitch,Inc.	15	0.02	15	0.02	-2.66
Estore Corp	15	0.02	15	0.02	-2.66
comDesign	14	0.02	13	0.02	4.83
Webmaster	14	0.02	15	0.02	-9.15
Swisskey AG	14	0.02	13	0.02	4.83
Superb Internet Corp.	13	0.02	13	0.02	-2.66
IndyWeb Inc.	13	0.02	13	0.02	-2.66
Deep Industry	13	0.02	8	0.01	58.18
University of Helsinki	12	0.02	11	0.02	6.19
Kommunikationssysteme ShE GmbH	12	0.02	12	0.02	-2.66
Barak ITC	12	0.02	12	0.02	-2.66
Web Site Fortress	11	0.02	10	0.02	7.08
Vital Online CA	11	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Oy Multi.fi Finland Ab Ltd.	11	0.02	11	0.02	-2.66
Idonex AB	11	0.02	10	0.02	7.08
Cybermarket	11	0.02	11	0.02	-2.66
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.	11	0.02	11	0.02	-2.66
ANET St. Louis	11	0.02	12	0.02	-10.77
WebNexus Communications	10	0.02	10	0.02	-2.66
University of Maryland	10	0.02	11	0.02	-11.51
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz	10	0.02	10	0.02	-2.66
A&S Systemtechnik	10	0.02	9	0.01	8.16
ProSalg as	9	0.01	9	0.01	-2.66
Algarvenet	9	0.01	9	0.01	-2.66
the Internet Outlet	8	0.01	8	0.01	-2.66
fun communications	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Wantree Internet	8	0.01	8	0.01	-2.66
University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (UWSP)	8	0.01	7	0.01	11.25
UNI-REGENSBURG	8	0.01	8	0.01	-2.66
Tampere University of Technology	8	0.01	8	0.01	-2.66
NIH	8	0.01	8	0.01	-2.66
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	8	0.01	15	0.02	-48.08
Versaggi Information Systems Inc	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
NeoNova B.V.	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Logical Net Corp	7	0.01	7	0.01	-2.66
IPrimus USA	7	0.01	7	0.01	-2.66
IPS Seguridad CA	7	0.01	6	0.01	13.57
Ensim Corporation	7	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
CyberGate	7	0.01	7	0.01	-2.66
Carnegie Mellon University	7	0.01	7	0.01	-2.66
trash.net	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
i-Planet	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
domainfactory GmbH	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
debis Systemhaus Oesterreich GmbH	6	0.01	5	0.01	16.81
Web Anchor, Inc.	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
USMC	6	0.01	7	0.01	-16.56
UNISG	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Store-O-Matic,Inc.	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
Q Web Services	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
Netalia Internet Ltd	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
Media3 Inc	6	0.01	8	0.01	-26.99
KPNQwest Czechia s.r.o	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
IMS	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
BelSign NV	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
AT&T	6	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
ANET Internet Solutions	6	0.01	6	0.01	-2.66
phpwebhosting.com	5	0.01	5	0.01	-2.66
bright.net North	5	0.01	5	0.01	-2.66

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.