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 2008 Count	October 2008 %	September 2008 Count	September 2008 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	119,165	24.88	108,362	22.87	8.77
Verisign	77,700	16.22	90,567	19.12	-15.14
Thawte	56,291	11.75	55,900	11.80	-0.40
Comodo Limited	42,456	8.86	41,586	8.78	0.98
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	37,781	7.89	34,714	7.33	7.65
Unknown	12,103	2.53	11,866	2.50	0.89
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	9,242	1.93	9,501	2.01	-3.78
Network Solutions L.L.C.	8,792	1.84	8,481	1.79	2.54
DigiCert	7,670	1.60	7,298	1.54	3.95
GlobalSign nv-sa	5,825	1.22	5,575	1.18	3.35
GlobalSign	5,741	1.20	5,391	1.14	5.33
Entrust.net	5,430	1.13	5,324	1.12	0.88
Comodo CA Limited	5,253	1.10	4,984	1.05	4.25
SWsoft, Inc.	4,157	0.87	4,209	0.89	-2.31
SomeOrganization	3,565	0.74	3,661	0.77	-3.68
Cybertrust	2,964	0.62	2,747	0.58	6.73
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,429	0.51	2,335	0.49	2.89
p1atin.de	2,325	0.49	2,015	0.43	14.13
SecureTrust Corporation	2,275	0.48	2,287	0.48	-1.61
SECOM Trust.net	2,111	0.44	2,156	0.46	-3.15
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,774	0.37	1,803	0.38	-2.68
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	1,650	0.34	1,570	0.33	3.95
Root CA	1,620	0.34	1,604	0.34	-0.10
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,379	0.29	1,454	0.31	-6.19
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,339	0.28	1,332	0.28	-0.57
AddTrust AB	1,234	0.26	1,294	0.27	-5.67
COMODO CA Limited	1,221	0.25	1,152	0.24	4.84
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	1,092	0.23	1,226	0.26	-11.90
U.S. Government	1,085	0.23	1,089	0.23	-1.45
CAcert Inc.	763	0.16	722	0.15	4.53
Akamai Technologies Inc	724	0.15	705	0.15	1.58
Alpha	702	0.15	634	0.13	9.52
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	613	0.13	584	0.12	3.82
ispgateway	604	0.13	591	0.12	1.09
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	597	0.12	577	0.12	2.34
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	572	0.12	454	0.10	24.62
Firstserver, Inc.	511	0.11	499	0.11	1.29
GTE Corporation	484	0.10	476	0.10	0.57
Servision Inc.	470	0.10	392	0.08	18.59
Earthlink Inc	415	0.09	422	0.09	-2.73
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	397	0.08	383	0.08	2.53
StartCom Ltd.	368	0.08	348	0.07	4.60
Firstserver, Inc	352	0.07	348	0.07	0.05
OCC	350	0.07	353	0.07	-1.93
Parallels	334	0.07	230	0.05	43.64
thawte, Inc.	301	0.06	264	0.06	12.78
suresupport.com	300	0.06	301	0.06	-1.42
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	289	0.06	281	0.06	1.73
TDC	249	0.05	256	0.05	-3.79
Sonera	246	0.05	242	0.05	0.55
TBS INTERNET	234	0.05	223	0.05	3.79
Cybertrust Inc	228	0.05	204	0.04	10.55
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	217	0.05	0	0.00	N/A
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	213	0.04	219	0.05	-3.80
Digi-Sign Limited	213	0.04	208	0.04	1.29
WTF ALFA	211	0.04	206	0.04	1.31
RegisterFly.com, inc.	211	0.04	205	0.04	1.81
BlueHost.Com	204	0.04	227	0.05	-11.11
FNMT	190	0.04	191	0.04	-1.61
Apache HTTP Server	181	0.04	184	0.04	-2.70
Positive Software Corporation	177	0.04	185	0.04	-5.36
RM	175	0.04	173	0.04	0.06
Positive Software	154	0.03	148	0.03	2.92
ICP-Brasil	153	0.03	151	0.03	0.22
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	145	0.03	143	0.03	0.30
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	145	0.03	139	0.03	3.18
CNRS	142	0.03	143	0.03	-1.78
none	135	0.03	128	0.03	4.32
Default Web Site	134	0.03	134	0.03	-1.09
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	132	0.03	123	0.03	6.15
50 Below Sales and Marketing, inc.	131	0.03	0	0.00	N/A
My Company Ltd	130	0.03	129	0.03	-0.32
GeoTrust Inc	125	0.03	109	0.02	13.43
TNC	114	0.02	104	0.02	8.42
Entrust, Inc.	113	0.02	99	0.02	12.90
InterWorx	112	0.02	108	0.02	2.58
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo	111	0.02	110	0.02	-0.19
SonicWALL, Inc.	110	0.02	102	0.02	6.67
New Dream Network, LLC.	110	0.02	103	0.02	5.63
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	105	0.02	106	0.02	-2.02
Digital Signature Trust Co.	104	0.02	101	0.02	1.85
ServerAdmin 24	103	0.02	95	0.02	7.24
Sun Microsystems Inc	100	0.02	106	0.02	-6.69
MULTICERT-CA	99	0.02	101	0.02	-3.05
ICS_TREE	96	0.02	97	0.02	-2.11
GlobalSign Inc	94	0.02	94	0.02	-1.09
National Institute of Informatics	93	0.02	86	0.02	6.96
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	88	0.02	88	0.02	-1.09
IceWarp Software	86	0.02	84	0.02	1.27
TC TrustCenter GmbH	85	0.02	67	0.01	25.49
OVH SAS	85	0.02	77	0.02	9.19
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo	84	0.02	77	0.02	7.90
OptimumSSL CA	75	0.02	78	0.02	-4.89
Apache Friends	74	0.02	75	0.02	-2.41
Etisalat	70	0.01	67	0.01	3.34
Digital Signature Trust	70	0.01	65	0.01	6.52
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus	69	0.01	67	0.01	1.87
WebMoney Transfer	68	0.01	70	0.01	-3.91
QuoVadis Limited	65	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Ipswitch,Inc.	64	0.01	63	0.01	0.48

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.