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	February 2009 Count	February 2009 %	January 2009 Count	January 2009 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	131,510	25.35	130,190	25.46	-0.43
Verisign	78,578	15.15	78,803	15.41	-1.71
Thawte	57,067	11.00	57,101	11.17	-1.48
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	49,492	9.54	46,242	9.04	5.50
Comodo Limited	45,491	8.77	44,895	8.78	-0.12
Unknown	12,782	2.46	12,649	2.47	-0.39
Network Solutions L.L.C.	9,872	1.90	9,520	1.86	2.22
DigiCert	9,054	1.75	8,687	1.70	2.74
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	8,259	1.59	8,517	1.67	-4.41
GlobalSign	6,913	1.33	6,572	1.29	3.69
GlobalSign nv-sa	6,630	1.28	6,413	1.25	1.91
Comodo CA Limited	6,164	1.19	5,780	1.13	5.12
Entrust.net	5,413	1.04	5,582	1.09	-4.41
p1atin.de	4,995	0.96	4,481	0.88	9.88
SomeOrganization	3,806	0.73	3,783	0.74	-0.83
SWsoft, Inc.	3,784	0.73	3,933	0.77	-5.16
Cybertrust	3,584	0.69	3,394	0.66	4.09
SecureTrust Corporation	2,801	0.54	2,694	0.53	2.49
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	2,699	0.52	2,536	0.50	4.91
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	1,904	0.37	1,822	0.36	3.01
SECOM Trust.net	1,782	0.34	1,915	0.37	-8.27
COMODO CA Limited	1,687	0.33	1,562	0.31	6.46
Root CA	1,681	0.32	1,663	0.33	-0.36
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,621	0.31	1,671	0.33	-4.38
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,340	0.26	1,360	0.27	-2.88
U.S. Government	1,091	0.21	1,087	0.21	-1.06
XRamp Security Services Inc	1,027	0.20	1,081	0.21	-6.35
Alpha	1,026	0.20	935	0.18	8.17
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	992	0.19	835	0.16	17.11
Akamai Technologies Inc	947	0.18	921	0.18	1.36
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	884	0.17	1,018	0.20	-14.40
CAcert Inc.	832	0.16	828	0.16	-0.95
Parallels	798	0.15	595	0.12	32.21
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	703	0.14	685	0.13	1.16
Servision Inc.	667	0.13	639	0.12	2.89
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	666	0.13	642	0.13	2.26
ispgateway	632	0.12	617	0.12	0.97
AddTrust AB	624	0.12	809	0.16	-23.97
Firstserver, Inc.	558	0.11	543	0.11	1.30
Entrust, Inc.	553	0.11	279	0.05	95.38
GTE Corporation	535	0.10	523	0.10	0.84
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	444	0.09	431	0.08	1.55
thawte, Inc.	404	0.08	371	0.07	7.34
StartCom Ltd.	402	0.08	385	0.08	2.93
Firstserver, Inc	370	0.07	372	0.07	-1.96
Earthlink Inc	366	0.07	394	0.08	-8.43
OCC	342	0.07	347	0.07	-2.85
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	316	0.06	303	0.06	2.80
Cybertrust Inc	297	0.06	281	0.05	4.19
suresupport.com	289	0.06	292	0.06	-2.44
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	280	0.05	264	0.05	4.55
TBS INTERNET	255	0.05	255	0.05	-1.43
TDC	254	0.05	252	0.05	-0.64
Sonera	252	0.05	251	0.05	-1.03
WTF ALFA	226	0.04	224	0.04	-0.55
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	223	0.04	227	0.04	-3.16
FNMT	218	0.04	207	0.04	3.81
BlueHost.Com	216	0.04	213	0.04	-0.04
Digi-Sign Limited	211	0.04	217	0.04	-4.15
none	209	0.04	191	0.04	7.86
GeoTrust Inc	187	0.04	168	0.03	9.72
Positive Software	173	0.03	175	0.03	-2.55
RM	168	0.03	171	0.03	-3.16
TC TrustCenter GmbH	166	0.03	133	0.03	23.03
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	164	0.03	153	0.03	5.66
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	157	0.03	147	0.03	5.28
My Company Ltd	153	0.03	142	0.03	6.21
Apache HTTP Server	152	0.03	157	0.03	-4.57
RegisterFly.com, inc.	150	0.03	184	0.04	-19.64
CNRS	144	0.03	150	0.03	-5.37
ICP-Brasil	143	0.03	153	0.03	-7.87
Positive Software Corporation	135	0.03	150	0.03	-11.28
Register.com	131	0.03	83	0.02	55.58
50 Below Sales and Marketing, inc.	131	0.03	131	0.03	-1.43
SonicWALL, Inc.	130	0.03	131	0.03	-2.18
Default Web Site	128	0.02	130	0.03	-2.94
National Institute of Informatics	125	0.02	115	0.02	7.15
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	121	0.02	129	0.03	-7.54
TNC	119	0.02	119	0.02	-1.43
New Dream Network, LLC.	114	0.02	114	0.02	-1.43
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo	114	0.02	111	0.02	1.24
OVH SAS	111	0.02	102	0.02	7.27
OptimumSSL CA	110	0.02	84	0.02	29.09
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	106	0.02	102	0.02	2.44
ServerAdmin 24	105	0.02	112	0.02	-7.59
Sun Microsystems Inc	102	0.02	104	0.02	-3.32
MULTICERT-CA	101	0.02	104	0.02	-4.27
QuoVadis Limited	98	0.02	81	0.02	19.26
Digital Signature Trust Co.	98	0.02	98	0.02	-1.43
InterWorx	96	0.02	102	0.02	-7.22
GlobalSign Inc	94	0.02	95	0.02	-2.46
IceWarp Software	93	0.02	90	0.02	1.86
ICS_TREE	93	0.02	97	0.02	-5.49
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	87	0.02	85	0.02	0.89
America Online Inc.	85	0.02	75	0.01	11.72
Parallels, Inc.	84	0.02	73	0.01	13.43
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo	80	0.02	78	0.02	1.10
RBC Hosting Center	78	0.02	74	0.01	3.90
WebMoney Transfer	74	0.01	73	0.01	-0.08
Apache Friends	74	0.01	73	0.01	-0.08

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.