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	December 2008 Count	December 2008 %	November 2008 Count	November 2008 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	128,413	25.54	126,397	25.70	-0.65
Verisign	78,155	15.54	77,874	15.84	-1.86
Thawte	56,613	11.26	56,422	11.47	-1.88
Comodo Limited	44,189	8.79	43,325	8.81	-0.26
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	43,975	8.74	41,007	8.34	4.86
Unknown	12,367	2.46	12,242	2.49	-1.22
Network Solutions L.L.C.	9,297	1.85	9,040	1.84	0.57
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	8,618	1.71	8,721	1.77	-3.37
DigiCert	8,424	1.68	8,152	1.66	1.05
GlobalSign	6,364	1.27	6,066	1.23	2.59
GlobalSign nv-sa	6,281	1.25	6,064	1.23	1.29
Comodo CA Limited	5,652	1.12	5,481	1.11	0.84
Entrust.net	5,564	1.11	5,503	1.12	-1.13
p1atin.de	3,997	0.79	1,272	0.26	207.27
SWsoft, Inc.	3,983	0.79	4,013	0.82	-2.94
SomeOrganization	3,702	0.74	3,650	0.74	-0.82
Cybertrust	3,311	0.66	3,147	0.64	2.88
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,556	0.51	2,514	0.51	-0.58
SecureTrust Corporation	2,424	0.48	2,348	0.48	0.95
SECOM Trust.net	1,981	0.39	2,020	0.41	-4.10
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	1,787	0.36	1,737	0.35	0.60
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,718	0.34	1,719	0.35	-2.27
Root CA	1,647	0.33	1,640	0.33	-1.80
COMODO CA Limited	1,460	0.29	1,382	0.28	3.31
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,325	0.26	1,317	0.27	-1.62
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,316	0.26	1,339	0.27	-3.89
U.S. Government	1,067	0.21	1,080	0.22	-3.39
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	1,042	0.21	1,084	0.22	-6.00
AddTrust AB	991	0.20	1,103	0.22	-12.14
Akamai Technologies Inc	897	0.18	867	0.18	1.17
Alpha	871	0.17	808	0.16	5.41
CAcert Inc.	784	0.16	790	0.16	-2.96
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	781	0.16	697	0.14	9.57
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	668	0.13	650	0.13	0.49
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	640	0.13	624	0.13	0.29
ispgateway	609	0.12	600	0.12	-0.75
Servision Inc.	601	0.12	551	0.11	6.66
Firstserver, Inc.	539	0.11	527	0.11	0.01
Parallels	529	0.11	488	0.10	6.00
GTE Corporation	524	0.10	517	0.11	-0.89
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	414	0.08	408	0.08	-0.78
Earthlink Inc	399	0.08	405	0.08	-3.66
Firstserver, Inc	370	0.07	363	0.07	-0.33
thawte, Inc.	366	0.07	347	0.07	3.14
StartCom Ltd.	365	0.07	358	0.07	-0.30
OCC	346	0.07	354	0.07	-4.42
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	303	0.06	292	0.06	1.47
suresupport.com	297	0.06	295	0.06	-1.55
Cybertrust Inc	278	0.06	252	0.05	7.88
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	263	0.05	257	0.05	0.07
TDC	254	0.05	249	0.05	-0.25
TBS INTERNET	252	0.05	240	0.05	2.68
Sonera	248	0.05	255	0.05	-4.90
WTF ALFA	224	0.04	215	0.04	1.88
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	220	0.04	221	0.04	-2.66
BlueHost.Com	218	0.04	215	0.04	-0.85
Digi-Sign Limited	215	0.04	212	0.04	-0.83
Entrust, Inc.	199	0.04	155	0.03	25.54
FNMT	198	0.04	197	0.04	-1.72
Apache HTTP Server	191	0.04	189	0.04	-1.18
RegisterFly.com, inc.	190	0.04	194	0.04	-4.23
Positive Software	174	0.03	167	0.03	1.88
RM	170	0.03	179	0.04	-7.13
none	169	0.03	156	0.03	5.93
GeoTrust Inc	165	0.03	152	0.03	6.15
ICP-Brasil	161	0.03	157	0.03	0.28
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	157	0.03	157	0.03	-2.21
Positive Software Corporation	154	0.03	156	0.03	-3.47
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	152	0.03	147	0.03	1.11
CNRS	148	0.03	142	0.03	1.92
My Company Ltd	138	0.03	132	0.03	2.23
50 Below Sales and Marketing, inc.	131	0.03	131	0.03	-2.21
Default Web Site	127	0.03	132	0.03	-5.92
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	126	0.03	134	0.03	-8.05
TC TrustCenter GmbH	125	0.02	104	0.02	17.53
SonicWALL, Inc.	121	0.02	114	0.02	3.79
TNC	118	0.02	118	0.02	-2.21
New Dream Network, LLC.	114	0.02	113	0.02	-1.35
ServerAdmin 24	112	0.02	100	0.02	9.52
National Institute of Informatics	110	0.02	107	0.02	0.53
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo	109	0.02	110	0.02	-3.10
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	106	0.02	106	0.02	-2.21
InterWorx	104	0.02	102	0.02	-0.30
Sun Microsystems Inc	101	0.02	99	0.02	-0.24
Digital Signature Trust Co.	99	0.02	102	0.02	-5.09
OVH SAS	98	0.02	91	0.02	5.31
GlobalSign Inc	94	0.02	93	0.02	-1.16
IceWarp Software	93	0.02	93	0.02	-2.21
MULTICERT-CA	92	0.02	101	0.02	-10.93
ICS_TREE	92	0.02	91	0.02	-1.14
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	86	0.02	86	0.02	-2.21
OptimumSSL CA	82	0.02	79	0.02	1.50
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo	82	0.02	83	0.02	-3.39
QuoVadis Limited	79	0.02	72	0.01	7.29
America Online Inc.	74	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
WebMoney Transfer	73	0.01	71	0.01	0.54
Etisalat	73	0.01	72	0.01	-0.86
RBC Hosting Center	72	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Apache Friends	72	0.01	72	0.01	-2.21
CENTRAL SECURITY PATROLS CO., LTD.	70	0.01	71	0.01	-3.59

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.