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Certificate Authority Market Share Report
July 1st, 2002

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.

GTE Corporation CA Certificate Historical Market Share Graph

CA June 2002
Count
June 2002
%
May 2002
Count
May 2002
%
Growth
%
Verisign36,90840.5835,64040.89-0.76
Thawte28,35631.1727,42031.46-0.90
Equifax Secure Inc8,2849.119,30410.67-14.68
Equifax (Geotrust)2,0982.316490.74209.78
Snake Oil, Ltd1,8892.081,8192.09-0.48
Unknown1,6381.801,4971.724.85
Entrust.net1,1461.261,0761.232.06
SomeOrganization9561.058510.987.65
U.S. Government6200.685590.646.29
Plesk Inc.3650.403240.377.95
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH1360.151300.150.25
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd1290.141020.1221.19
The USERTRUST Network1160.13990.1112.28
Thawte Certification1060.12960.115.81
GlobalSign nv-sa1020.11890.109.83
GTE Corporation790.09820.09-7.68
Kubota Systems Inc.760.08690.085.55
Advanced Extranet Server670.07610.075.25
*.ceti.pl650.07680.08-8.40
Ipswitch,Inc.640.07540.0613.57
Esat Net600.07640.07-10.16
Deutsche Telekom AG600.07580.07-0.87
BSG440.05430.05-1.94
Ensim Corporation430.05440.05-6.35
ispgateway390.04330.0413.25
Ring d.o.o.390.0400.00N/A
NeoNova B.V.380.04390.04-6.63
zNET Internet Services370.04430.05-17.54
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.310.03290.032.44
University of Florida300.03300.03-4.17
MDM iNet, LLC300.0300.00N/A
Franke & Partner300.03350.04-17.86
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.290.03250.0311.16
SCNC280.03310.04-13.45
Onyx Internet280.03210.0227.77
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.280.0300.00N/A
Webmaster260.03270.03-7.72
Web Hosting250.03260.03-7.86
Deep Industry240.03290.03-20.69
Indra's Net, Inc.220.02220.03-4.17
DeZines Web Hosting220.02230.03-8.34
UUNET UK210.02210.02-4.17
Comodo Limited210.0200.00N/A
University of Maryland200.02190.020.87
Massachusetts Institute of Technology200.02200.02-4.17
Idonex AB200.02180.026.48
Webmin Software190.02150.0221.38
WebMoney Transfer180.02130.0132.68
Stargate.Net, Inc.180.02180.02-4.17
Logacont AG180.02180.02-4.17
HAL interactive, d.o.o.180.02180.02-4.17
helpdesk.powercom.net170.02170.02-4.17
University of Helsinki170.02160.021.82
Media3 Technologies L.L.C.170.02200.02-18.55
Linux Test Server170.02150.028.60
IPS Seguridad CA170.02170.02-4.17
Stalker Software, Inc.150.02150.02-4.17
Estore Corp140.02140.02-4.17
DeZines Web Hosting Corporation140.02150.02-10.56
Radio Data Group Inc130.01150.02-16.95
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.130.01130.01-4.17
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.120.01120.01-4.17
USMC120.01100.0114.99
IPrimus USA120.01120.01-4.17
Certipor S.A.120.01120.01-4.17
Beocity120.0100.00N/A
Your Organization110.01130.01-18.91
XAO Inc.110.01110.01-4.17
Superb Internet Corp.110.01110.01-4.17
Sun Microsystems Inc110.01110.01-4.17
Schell Computersysteme110.01110.01-4.17
NIH110.01120.01-12.16
International Business Machines Corporation110.01110.01-4.17
Universitaet Heidelberg100.01100.01-4.17
Tele Danmark100.0190.016.48
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz100.0170.0136.90
PVT a.s.100.0100.00N/A
Inter Clear Service Ltd100.01120.01-20.14
IndyWeb Inc.100.0100.00N/A
INFN100.01100.01-4.17
FAS100.01100.01-4.17
Cybermarket100.01100.01-4.17
Carnegie Mellon University100.0180.0119.78
Barak ITC100.01100.01-4.17
comDesign90.01110.01-21.60
Uppsala universitet90.0190.01-4.17
Tampere University of Technology90.0190.01-4.17
IMS90.0190.01-4.17
CNRS90.0180.017.81
A&S Systemtechnik90.0190.01-4.17
dummy80.0170.019.52
WebNexus Communications80.0180.01-4.17
Viawest Internet Services80.0180.01-4.17
University of Waterloo80.0170.019.52
SYLABA Internet80.0180.01-4.17
Media3 Inc80.0180.01-4.17
KPNQwest International80.0100.00N/A
Interzona.net srl80.0180.01-4.17
Hypervine Communications, Inc80.0100.00N/A
Digicert Sdn Bhd80.0100.00N/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.



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