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Certificate Authority Market Share Report
March 1st, 2009

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.

Root CA CA Certificate Historical Market Share Graph

CA February 2009
Count
February 2009
%
January 2009
Count
January 2009
%
Growth
%
Equifax (Geotrust)131,51025.35130,19025.46-0.43
Verisign78,57815.1578,80315.41-1.71
Thawte57,06711.0057,10111.17-1.48
GoDaddy.com, Inc.49,4929.5446,2429.045.50
Comodo Limited45,4918.7744,8958.78-0.12
Unknown12,7822.4612,6492.47-0.39
Network Solutions L.L.C.9,8721.909,5201.862.22
DigiCert9,0541.758,6871.702.74
Starfield Technologies, Inc.8,2591.598,5171.67-4.41
GlobalSign6,9131.336,5721.293.69
GlobalSign nv-sa6,6301.286,4131.251.91
Comodo CA Limited6,1641.195,7801.135.12
Entrust.net5,4131.045,5821.09-4.41
p1atin.de4,9950.964,4810.889.88
SomeOrganization3,8060.733,7830.74-0.83
SWsoft, Inc.3,7840.733,9330.77-5.16
Cybertrust3,5840.693,3940.664.09
SecureTrust Corporation2,8010.542,6940.532.49
IPS Certification Authority s.l.2,6990.522,5360.504.91
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.1,9040.371,8220.363.01
SECOM Trust.net1,7820.341,9150.37-8.27
COMODO CA Limited1,6870.331,5620.316.46
Root CA1,6810.321,6630.33-0.36
Snake Oil, Ltd1,6210.311,6710.33-4.38
Secure Business Services, Inc.1,3400.261,3600.27-2.88
U.S. Government1,0910.211,0870.21-1.06
XRamp Security Services Inc1,0270.201,0810.21-6.35
Alpha1,0260.209350.188.17
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.9920.198350.1617.11
Akamai Technologies Inc9470.189210.181.36
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH8840.171,0180.20-14.40
CAcert Inc.8320.168280.16-0.95
Parallels7980.155950.1232.21
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.7030.146850.131.16
Servision Inc.6670.136390.122.89
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH6660.136420.132.26
ispgateway6320.126170.120.97
AddTrust AB6240.128090.16-23.97
Firstserver, Inc.5580.115430.111.30
Entrust, Inc.5530.112790.0595.38
GTE Corporation5350.105230.100.84
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority4440.094310.081.55
thawte, Inc.4040.083710.077.34
StartCom Ltd.4020.083850.082.93
Firstserver, Inc3700.073720.07-1.96
Earthlink Inc3660.073940.08-8.43
OCC3420.073470.07-2.85
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.3160.063030.062.80
Cybertrust Inc2970.062810.054.19
suresupport.com2890.062920.06-2.44
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.2800.052640.054.55
TBS INTERNET2550.052550.05-1.43
TDC2540.052520.05-0.64
Sonera2520.052510.05-1.03
WTF ALFA2260.042240.04-0.55
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd2230.042270.04-3.16
FNMT2180.042070.043.81
BlueHost.Com2160.042130.04-0.04
Digi-Sign Limited2110.042170.04-4.15
none2090.041910.047.86
GeoTrust Inc1870.041680.039.72
Positive Software1730.031750.03-2.55
RM1680.031710.03-3.16
TC TrustCenter GmbH1660.031330.0323.03
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt1640.031530.035.66
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.1570.031470.035.28
My Company Ltd1530.031420.036.21
Apache HTTP Server1520.031570.03-4.57
RegisterFly.com, inc.1500.031840.04-19.64
CNRS1440.031500.03-5.37
ICP-Brasil1430.031530.03-7.87
Positive Software Corporation1350.031500.03-11.28
Register.com1310.03830.0255.58
50 Below Sales and Marketing, inc.1310.031310.03-1.43
SonicWALL, Inc.1300.031310.03-2.18
Default Web Site1280.021300.03-2.94
National Institute of Informatics1250.021150.027.15
Unicert Brasil Certificadora1210.021290.03-7.54
TNC1190.021190.02-1.43
New Dream Network, LLC.1140.021140.02-1.43
BLUEHOST.COM - Only $6.95/mo1140.021110.021.24
OVH SAS1110.021020.027.27
OptimumSSL CA1100.02840.0229.09
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH1060.021020.022.44
ServerAdmin 241050.021120.02-7.59
Sun Microsystems Inc1020.021040.02-3.32
MULTICERT-CA1010.021040.02-4.27
QuoVadis Limited980.02810.0219.26
Digital Signature Trust Co.980.02980.02-1.43
InterWorx960.021020.02-7.22
GlobalSign Inc940.02950.02-2.46
IceWarp Software930.02900.021.86
ICS_TREE930.02970.02-5.49
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.870.02850.020.89
America Online Inc.850.02750.0111.72
Parallels, Inc.840.02730.0113.43
HOSTMONSTER.COM - Only $6.95/mo800.02780.021.10
RBC Hosting Center780.02740.013.90
WebMoney Transfer740.01730.01-0.08
Apache Friends740.01730.01-0.08

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.



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