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 2007 Count	October 2007 %	September 2007 Count	September 2007 %	Growth %
Verisign	81,612	22.26	80,709	22.53	-1.20
Equifax (Geotrust)	81,417	22.20	79,159	22.10	0.49
Thawte	47,134	12.85	46,494	12.98	-0.95
Comodo Limited	30,149	8.22	29,641	8.27	-0.62
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	12,768	3.48	13,043	3.64	-4.36
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	11,450	3.12	10,046	2.80	11.36
DigiCert	10,498	2.86	9,945	2.78	3.14
Unknown	8,937	2.44	8,711	2.43	0.24
Network Solutions L.L.C.	5,043	1.38	4,804	1.34	2.57
Entrust.net	4,248	1.16	4,136	1.15	0.35
SWsoft, Inc.	3,541	0.97	3,420	0.95	1.16
SomeOrganization	3,343	0.91	3,314	0.93	-1.44
AddTrust AB	3,294	0.90	3,315	0.93	-2.91
Comodo CA Limited	2,157	0.59	1,950	0.54	8.08
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,976	0.54	2,002	0.56	-3.56
SECOM Trust.net	1,873	0.51	1,795	0.50	1.95
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,862	0.51	1,863	0.52	-2.35
GlobalSign nv-sa	1,681	0.46	1,490	0.42	10.23
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	1,490	0.41	1,423	0.40	2.31
U.S. Government	1,445	0.39	1,442	0.40	-2.09
Cybertrust	1,267	0.35	1,129	0.32	9.65
Root CA	1,265	0.34	1,203	0.34	2.74
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	1,074	0.29	1,057	0.30	-0.72
Akamai Technologies Inc	1,065	0.29	1,028	0.29	1.22
Secure Business Services, Inc.	977	0.27	934	0.26	2.20
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	844	0.23	740	0.21	11.44
SecureTrust Corporation	821	0.22	690	0.19	16.25
Earthlink Inc	527	0.14	530	0.15	-2.85
CAcert Inc.	453	0.12	440	0.12	0.59
ispgateway	449	0.12	440	0.12	-0.30
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	444	0.12	442	0.12	-1.85
COMODO CA Limited	417	0.11	354	0.10	15.09
Positive Software Corporation	360	0.10	377	0.11	-6.70
GTE Corporation	342	0.09	333	0.09	0.35
Firstserver, Inc.	339	0.09	321	0.09	3.18
p1atin.de	295	0.08	292	0.08	-1.29
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	295	0.08	283	0.08	1.85
OCC	289	0.08	278	0.08	1.57
Firstserver, Inc	269	0.07	261	0.07	0.70
StartCom Ltd.	224	0.06	209	0.06	4.72
TDC	218	0.06	229	0.06	-6.99
BlueHost.Com	217	0.06	216	0.06	-1.84
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd.	204	0.06	265	0.07	-24.79
RegisterFly.com, inc.	200	0.05	191	0.05	2.31
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	198	0.05	189	0.05	2.36
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	196	0.05	187	0.05	2.41
Digi-Sign Limited	190	0.05	189	0.05	-1.78
Your Name Webhosting	164	0.04	154	0.04	4.05
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	159	0.04	158	0.04	-1.68
RM	147	0.04	143	0.04	0.44
TBS INTERNET	146	0.04	141	0.04	1.17
Apache HTTP Server	146	0.04	137	0.04	4.12
Comodo Japan Inc.	136	0.04	156	0.04	-14.82
Positive Software	130	0.04	127	0.04	0.01
Sonera	125	0.03	120	0.03	1.78
Plesk, Inc.	118	0.03	126	0.04	-8.50
ICP-Brasil	113	0.03	103	0.03	7.19
GlobalSign	113	0.03	79	0.02	39.75
CNRS	111	0.03	114	0.03	-4.87
GlobalSign Inc	109	0.03	107	0.03	-0.47
Default Web Site	105	0.03	96	0.03	6.86
FNMT	104	0.03	99	0.03	2.64
WTF ALFA	103	0.03	82	0.02	22.73
Digital Signature Trust Co.	100	0.03	97	0.03	0.73
ChainedSSL	100	0.03	101	0.03	-3.26
ICS_TREE	97	0.03	97	0.03	-2.30
thawte, Inc.	93	0.03	88	0.02	3.26
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	91	0.02	87	0.02	2.20
My Company Ltd	87	0.02	88	0.02	-3.41
MULTICERT-CA	86	0.02	81	0.02	3.74
Sun Microsystems Inc	82	0.02	81	0.02	-1.09
FreeSSL	82	0.02	87	0.02	-7.91
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	81	0.02	75	0.02	5.52
New Dream Network, LLC.	80	0.02	76	0.02	2.85
IceWarp Software	77	0.02	74	0.02	1.67
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	77	0.02	76	0.02	-1.01
CRU	76	0.02	75	0.02	-0.99
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	74	0.02	75	0.02	-3.60
Ipswitch,Inc.	74	0.02	79	0.02	-8.48
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	70	0.02	66	0.02	3.63
InterWorx	68	0.02	64	0.02	3.81
Plesk Inc.	67	0.02	68	0.02	-3.73
NTT Communications Corporation	66	0.02	72	0.02	-10.44
WebMoney Transfer	64	0.02	65	0.02	-3.80
Japan Certification Services, Inc.	59	0.02	56	0.02	2.94
Alpha	59	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Apache Friends	58	0.02	57	0.02	-0.58
XYZ Corporation	55	0.01	58	0.02	-7.35
Cybertrust Inc	54	0.01	49	0.01	7.67
University of Washington	51	0.01	45	0.01	10.73
Postecom S.p.A.	51	0.01	50	0.01	-0.34
"PositiveSoftwareCorporation"	51	0.01	52	0.01	-4.17
IceWarp Ltd.	50	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus	50	0.01	46	0.01	6.20
Etisalat	49	0.01	46	0.01	4.08
Thawte Certification	48	0.01	52	0.01	-9.81
Cisco Systems, Inc.	47	0.01	45	0.01	2.05
Carnegie Mellon University	47	0.01	46	0.01	-0.17
Prvni certifikacni autorita a.s.	46	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
University of Maryland	45	0.01	49	0.01	-10.27

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.