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	July 2008 Count	July 2008 %	June 2008 Count	June 2008 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	101,988	22.64	100,526	22.80	-0.70
Verisign	88,098	19.56	87,296	19.80	-1.22
Thawte	53,182	11.81	52,648	11.94	-1.13
Comodo Limited	39,138	8.69	38,311	8.69	-0.01
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	30,318	6.73	27,860	6.32	6.52
Unknown	11,077	2.46	10,924	2.48	-0.75
DigiCert	9,989	2.22	9,390	2.13	4.12
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	9,548	2.12	9,951	2.26	-6.08
Network Solutions L.L.C.	7,824	1.74	7,478	1.70	2.41
Entrust.net	5,057	1.12	4,964	1.13	-0.29
GlobalSign nv-sa	5,040	1.12	4,497	1.02	9.70
GlobalSign	4,684	1.04	4,231	0.96	8.36
Comodo CA Limited	4,535	1.01	4,248	0.96	4.49
SWsoft, Inc.	4,144	0.92	4,192	0.95	-3.24
SomeOrganization	3,542	0.79	3,518	0.80	-1.45
Cybertrust	2,465	0.55	2,314	0.52	4.27
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,153	0.48	2,099	0.48	0.40
SECOM Trust.net	2,152	0.48	2,214	0.50	-4.86
SecureTrust Corporation	2,120	0.47	1,982	0.45	4.70
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,833	0.41	1,837	0.42	-2.33
p1atin.de	1,812	0.40	1,536	0.35	15.47
Root CA	1,539	0.34	1,530	0.35	-1.54
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	1,472	0.33	1,405	0.32	2.55
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,459	0.32	1,506	0.34	-5.17
AddTrust AB	1,330	0.30	1,401	0.32	-7.08
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,264	0.28	1,260	0.29	-1.81
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	1,199	0.27	1,206	0.27	-2.69
U.S. Government	1,068	0.24	1,041	0.24	0.42
COMODO CA Limited	1,011	0.22	920	0.21	7.56
CAcert Inc.	679	0.15	665	0.15	-0.06
Akamai Technologies Inc	649	0.14	618	0.14	2.79
ispgateway	566	0.13	546	0.12	1.47
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	546	0.12	530	0.12	0.84
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	517	0.11	460	0.10	10.01
Alpha	504	0.11	452	0.10	9.14
Firstserver, Inc.	452	0.10	436	0.10	1.47
Earthlink Inc	425	0.09	443	0.10	-6.10
GTE Corporation	407	0.09	398	0.09	0.09
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	360	0.08	347	0.08	1.55
OCC	343	0.08	340	0.08	-1.26
Firstserver, Inc	338	0.08	330	0.07	0.25
StartCom Ltd.	315	0.07	291	0.07	5.95
suresupport.com	300	0.07	281	0.06	4.50
Servision Inc.	290	0.06	190	0.04	49.40
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	290	0.06	169	0.04	67.96
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	262	0.06	245	0.06	4.67
TDC	248	0.06	248	0.06	-2.12
thawte, Inc.	229	0.05	205	0.05	9.34
BlueHost.Com	224	0.05	226	0.05	-2.99
Sonera	215	0.05	203	0.05	3.67
Positive Software Corporation	211	0.05	255	0.06	-19.01
TBS INTERNET	207	0.05	199	0.05	1.82
RegisterFly.com, inc.	197	0.04	194	0.04	-0.61
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	195	0.04	180	0.04	6.04
Digi-Sign Limited	193	0.04	194	0.04	-2.62
WTF ALFA	187	0.04	175	0.04	4.59
FNMT	173	0.04	159	0.04	6.50
Cybertrust Inc	173	0.04	165	0.04	2.63
Apache HTTP Server	164	0.04	165	0.04	-2.71
RM	157	0.03	170	0.04	-9.60
Positive Software	144	0.03	141	0.03	-0.04
ICP-Brasil	142	0.03	136	0.03	2.20
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	136	0.03	127	0.03	4.82
CNRS	132	0.03	129	0.03	0.16
Default Web Site	131	0.03	130	0.03	-1.37
50 below	131	0.03	131	0.03	-2.12
Parallels	125	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	123	0.03	114	0.03	5.61
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	113	0.03	107	0.02	3.37
Digital Signature Trust Co.	105	0.02	99	0.02	3.81
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	103	0.02	94	0.02	7.25
InterWorx	102	0.02	89	0.02	12.18
Sun Microsystems Inc	101	0.02	98	0.02	0.88
New Dream Network, LLC.	101	0.02	97	0.02	1.92
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo	101	0.02	98	0.02	0.88
ICS_TREE	98	0.02	106	0.02	-9.51
none	96	0.02	74	0.02	26.98
GeoTrust Inc	94	0.02	83	0.02	10.85
My Company Ltd	93	0.02	93	0.02	-2.12
OptimumSSL CA	87	0.02	87	0.02	-2.12
GlobalSign Inc	87	0.02	83	0.02	2.60
Entrust, Inc.	87	0.02	74	0.02	15.08
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	86	0.02	86	0.02	-2.12
SonicWALL, Inc.	85	0.02	84	0.02	-0.95
TNC	83	0.02	74	0.02	9.78
ServerAdmin 24	83	0.02	79	0.02	2.84
IceWarp Software	83	0.02	76	0.02	6.90
MULTICERT-CA	81	0.02	95	0.02	-16.54
Apache Friends	77	0.02	69	0.02	9.23
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo	74	0.02	67	0.02	8.11
National Institute of Informatics	72	0.02	66	0.01	6.78
WebMoney Transfer	67	0.01	68	0.02	-3.56
Etisalat	66	0.01	59	0.01	9.49
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd.	66	0.01	72	0.02	-10.28
University of Washington	65	0.01	64	0.01	-0.59
OVH SAS	63	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Ipswitch,Inc.	63	0.01	63	0.01	-2.12
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus	62	0.01	61	0.01	-0.51
IceWarp Ltd.	59	0.01	62	0.01	-6.86
Comodo Japan Inc.	59	0.01	74	0.02	-21.96

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.