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	November 2008 Count	November 2008 %	October 2008 Count	October 2008 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	126,397	25.70	119,165	24.88	3.31
Verisign	77,874	15.84	77,700	16.22	-2.39
Thawte	56,422	11.47	56,291	11.75	-2.38
Comodo Limited	43,325	8.81	42,456	8.86	-0.61
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	41,007	8.34	37,781	7.89	5.71
Unknown	12,242	2.49	12,103	2.53	-1.49
Network Solutions L.L.C.	9,040	1.84	8,792	1.84	0.14
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	8,721	1.77	9,242	1.93	-8.10
DigiCert	8,152	1.66	7,670	1.60	3.52
GlobalSign	6,066	1.23	5,741	1.20	2.91
GlobalSign nv-sa	6,064	1.23	5,825	1.22	1.39
Entrust.net	5,503	1.12	5,430	1.13	-1.30
Comodo CA Limited	5,481	1.11	5,253	1.10	1.62
SWsoft, Inc.	4,013	0.82	4,157	0.87	-5.98
SomeOrganization	3,650	0.74	3,565	0.74	-0.28
Cybertrust	3,147	0.64	2,964	0.62	3.41
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,514	0.51	2,429	0.51	0.80
SecureTrust Corporation	2,348	0.48	2,275	0.48	0.52
SECOM Trust.net	2,020	0.41	2,111	0.44	-6.80
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	1,737	0.35	1,650	0.34	2.53
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,719	0.35	1,774	0.37	-5.62
Root CA	1,640	0.33	1,620	0.34	-1.40
COMODO CA Limited	1,382	0.28	1,221	0.25	10.24
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,339	0.27	1,379	0.29	-5.43
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,317	0.27	1,339	0.28	-4.21
p1atin.de	1,272	0.26	2,325	0.49	-46.72
AddTrust AB	1,103	0.22	1,234	0.26	-12.94
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	1,084	0.22	1,092	0.23	-3.32
U.S. Government	1,080	0.22	1,085	0.23	-3.05
Akamai Technologies Inc	867	0.18	724	0.15	16.63
Alpha	808	0.16	702	0.15	12.10
CAcert Inc.	790	0.16	763	0.16	0.84
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	697	0.14	572	0.12	18.68
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	650	0.13	613	0.13	3.27
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	624	0.13	597	0.12	1.80
ispgateway	600	0.12	604	0.13	-3.25
Servision Inc.	551	0.11	470	0.10	14.18
Firstserver, Inc.	527	0.11	511	0.11	0.44
GTE Corporation	517	0.11	484	0.10	4.04
Parallels	488	0.10	334	0.07	42.30
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	408	0.08	397	0.08	0.09
Earthlink Inc	405	0.08	415	0.09	-4.95
Firstserver, Inc	363	0.07	352	0.07	0.44
StartCom Ltd.	358	0.07	368	0.08	-5.25
OCC	354	0.07	350	0.07	-1.49
thawte, Inc.	347	0.07	301	0.06	12.28
suresupport.com	295	0.06	300	0.06	-4.23
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	292	0.06	289	0.06	-1.59
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	257	0.05	217	0.05	15.35
Sonera	255	0.05	246	0.05	0.96
Cybertrust Inc	252	0.05	228	0.05	7.65
TDC	249	0.05	249	0.05	-2.61
TBS INTERNET	240	0.05	234	0.05	-0.11
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	221	0.04	213	0.04	1.05
WTF ALFA	215	0.04	211	0.04	-0.76
BlueHost.Com	215	0.04	204	0.04	2.65
Digi-Sign Limited	212	0.04	213	0.04	-3.06
FNMT	197	0.04	190	0.04	0.98
RegisterFly.com, inc.	194	0.04	211	0.04	-10.45
Apache HTTP Server	189	0.04	181	0.04	1.70
RM	179	0.04	175	0.04	-0.38
Positive Software	167	0.03	154	0.03	5.62
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	157	0.03	145	0.03	5.46
ICP-Brasil	157	0.03	153	0.03	-0.06
none	156	0.03	135	0.03	12.55
Positive Software Corporation	156	0.03	177	0.04	-14.16
Entrust, Inc.	155	0.03	113	0.02	33.59
GeoTrust Inc	152	0.03	125	0.03	18.43
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	147	0.03	145	0.03	-1.26
CNRS	142	0.03	142	0.03	-2.61
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	134	0.03	132	0.03	-1.13
My Company Ltd	132	0.03	130	0.03	-1.11
Default Web Site	132	0.03	134	0.03	-4.06
50 Below Sales and Marketing, inc.	131	0.03	131	0.03	-2.61
TNC	118	0.02	114	0.02	0.81
SonicWALL, Inc.	114	0.02	110	0.02	0.94
New Dream Network, LLC.	113	0.02	110	0.02	0.05
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo	110	0.02	111	0.02	-3.48
National Institute of Informatics	107	0.02	93	0.02	12.06
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	106	0.02	105	0.02	-1.68
TC TrustCenter GmbH	104	0.02	85	0.02	19.17
InterWorx	102	0.02	112	0.02	-11.30
Digital Signature Trust Co.	102	0.02	104	0.02	-4.48
MULTICERT-CA	101	0.02	99	0.02	-0.64
ServerAdmin 24	100	0.02	103	0.02	-5.44
Sun Microsystems Inc	99	0.02	100	0.02	-3.58
IceWarp Software	93	0.02	86	0.02	5.32
GlobalSign Inc	93	0.02	94	0.02	-3.64
OVH SAS	91	0.02	85	0.02	4.27
ICS_TREE	91	0.02	96	0.02	-7.68
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	86	0.02	88	0.02	-4.82
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo	83	0.02	84	0.02	-3.76
OptimumSSL CA	79	0.02	75	0.02	2.59
QuoVadis Limited	72	0.01	65	0.01	7.88
Etisalat	72	0.01	70	0.01	0.18
Apache Friends	72	0.01	74	0.02	-5.24
WebMoney Transfer	71	0.01	68	0.01	1.69
CENTRAL SECURITY PATROLS CO., LTD.	71	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Digital Signature Trust	69	0.01	70	0.01	-4.00
AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus	69	0.01	69	0.01	-2.61

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.