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Certificate Authority Market Share Report
September 1st, 2004

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.

Root CA CA Certificate Historical Market Share Graph

CA August 2004
Count
August 2004
%
July 2004
Count
July 2004
%
Growth
%
Verisign70,58637.6870,61738.01-0.86
Thawte35,09018.7335,03218.85-0.65
Equifax (Geotrust)29,05815.5128,76015.480.22
Comodo Limited13,7467.3413,3027.162.50
SomeOrganization2,7551.472,7911.50-2.09
Entrust.net2,4821.322,4451.320.69
Snake Oil, Ltd2,3021.232,3131.24-1.28
The USERTRUST Network1,5470.831,4120.768.67
Unknown1,3490.721,2720.685.19
U.S. Government1,2860.691,2990.70-1.80
FreeSSL8310.448140.441.26
SWsoft, Inc.7250.396490.3510.80
IPS Certification Authority s.l.5840.315400.297.27
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH5150.274910.264.04
Plesk, Inc.5060.275150.28-2.55
Starfield Technologies, Inc.3920.213130.1724.22
GlobalSign nv-sa3760.203600.193.60
XRamp Security Services Inc3470.192590.1432.89
Plesk Inc.2590.142580.14-0.43
Deutsche Telekom AG2500.132050.1120.96
Ipswitch,Inc.2180.122320.12-6.80
Baltimore Technologies Japan Co.,Ltd.1710.091690.090.36
ispgateway1590.081460.088.02
GTE Corporation1230.071190.062.52
Thawte Certification1180.061230.07-4.84
Kubota Systems Inc.1150.061130.060.94
Equifax Secure Inc1080.061170.06-8.44
Root CA1030.05900.0513.52
IceWarp Software1010.05910.0510.09
Apache HTTP Server1000.05800.0423.99
Digital Signature Trust Co.910.05900.050.29
TDC840.04750.0411.09
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.790.04810.04-3.26
Positive Software700.04730.04-4.89
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd660.04690.04-5.12
Akamai640.03560.0313.36
United Network Communications Co., Ltd.600.03590.030.87
XYZ Corporation590.03600.03-2.47
CsideNet540.03520.033.00
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.520.03510.031.13
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.510.03530.03-4.55
Advanced Extranet Server510.03540.03-6.32
OCC470.03420.0211.00
Azero470.03470.03-0.81
ICS_TREE460.02450.021.39
Your Name Webhosting440.02370.0217.95
WebMoney Transfer420.02410.021.61
KICA400.02380.024.41
Beocity400.02400.02-0.81
Webmin Software390.02400.02-3.29
University of Florida390.02380.021.80
SCNC390.02390.02-0.81
CETI390.02410.02-5.65
Sun Cobalt370.02360.021.94
Communitymusician360.02370.02-3.49
Sun Microsystems Inc350.02320.028.49
CNRS350.02340.022.11
Stalker Software, Inc.320.02320.02-0.81
Hurricane Electric Internet Services320.02320.02-0.81
Stunnel Developers Ltd310.02300.022.49
NeoNova B.V.310.02310.02-0.81
Japan Certification Services, Inc.310.02310.02-0.81
MULTICERT-CA300.02320.02-7.01
UniCERT Brasil Certificadora280.01270.012.86
Temp Certificate!280.01250.0111.09
Massachusetts Institute of Technology280.01260.016.82
cv. Candi Internet270.01280.02-4.35
University of Maryland270.01280.02-4.35
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz270.01260.013.00
RM270.01270.01-0.81
domainsofnote.com260.01260.01-0.81
PVT a.s.260.01230.0112.13
Franke & Partner260.01260.01-0.81
Ensim Corporation260.01260.01-0.81
pair Networks250.01240.013.32
My Company Ltd250.01230.017.81
Carnegie Mellon University250.01230.017.81
Audkenni hf.250.01230.017.81
Your Organization240.01220.018.21
ICP-Brasil240.01300.02-20.65
FNMT240.01230.013.50
Tele Danmark230.01260.01-12.26
CRU230.01230.01-0.81
ROOT220.01220.01-0.81
Pro Futuro S.A.220.01220.01-0.81
Postecom s.p.a.220.01210.013.91
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.220.01210.013.91
Aaex Corp.220.0100.00N/A
beTRUSTed210.01200.014.15
Hongkong Post210.01200.014.15
Etisalat210.01220.01-5.32
DNS Anonym210.01220.01-5.32
1&1 Internet Limited210.01210.01-0.81
University of Helsinki200.01210.01-5.54
SCANDTRUST AB200.01190.014.41
FAS200.01200.01-0.81
Deutsches Forschungsnetz200.01210.01-5.54
CFC200.0100.00N/A
DFN-CERT Services GmbH190.01190.01-0.81
The Chinese University of Hong Kong180.01180.01-0.81

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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