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	July 2009 Count	July 2009 %	June 2009 Count	June 2009 %	Growth %
Equifax (Geotrust)	144,070	25.64	143,035	25.78	-0.54
Verisign	79,563	14.16	80,040	14.43	-1.84
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	64,612	11.50	61,636	11.11	3.51
Thawte	58,791	10.46	58,866	10.61	-1.38
Comodo Limited	45,949	8.18	45,950	8.28	-1.26
Unknown	13,564	2.41	13,540	2.44	-1.08
Network Solutions L.L.C.	11,305	2.01	11,064	1.99	0.90
DigiCert	11,096	1.97	10,664	1.92	2.75
GlobalSign	8,483	1.51	8,117	1.46	3.20
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	8,397	1.49	8,313	1.50	-0.26
GlobalSign nv-sa	8,252	1.47	7,524	1.36	8.30
Comodo CA Limited	7,784	1.39	7,381	1.33	4.14
Entrust.net	4,846	0.86	5,121	0.92	-6.56
Cybertrust	4,217	0.75	4,084	0.74	1.96
COMODO CA Limited	4,091	0.73	3,226	0.58	25.22
SomeOrganization	3,595	0.64	3,970	0.72	-10.58
SWsoft, Inc.	3,522	0.63	3,615	0.65	-3.80
SecureTrust Corporation	3,473	0.62	3,324	0.60	3.17
IPS Certification Authority s.l.	3,003	0.53	2,949	0.53	0.55
Entrust, Inc.	2,252	0.40	1,885	0.34	17.97
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	2,158	0.38	2,100	0.38	1.47
Root CA	1,793	0.32	1,808	0.33	-2.07
Alpha	1,491	0.27	1,354	0.24	8.74
SECOM Trust.net	1,483	0.26	1,534	0.28	-4.54
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,482	0.26	1,549	0.28	-5.53
Parallels	1,424	0.25	1,295	0.23	8.58
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	1,402	0.25	1,311	0.24	5.60
Secure Business Services, Inc.	1,360	0.24	1,359	0.24	-1.18
Akamai Technologies Inc	1,110	0.20	1,057	0.19	3.70
U.S. Government	987	0.18	989	0.18	-1.45
CAcert Inc.	921	0.16	871	0.16	4.41
Servision Inc.	821	0.15	780	0.14	3.94
XRamp Security Services Inc	809	0.14	873	0.16	-8.49
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH	750	0.13	729	0.13	1.59
p1atin.de	668	0.12	649	0.12	1.64
ispgateway	666	0.12	656	0.12	0.25
thawte, Inc.	624	0.11	540	0.10	14.11
GTE Corporation	611	0.11	515	0.09	17.15
Firstserver, Inc.	603	0.11	601	0.11	-0.93
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	541	0.10	655	0.12	-18.44
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	490	0.09	478	0.09	1.22
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	457	0.08	541	0.10	-16.59
StartCom Ltd.	452	0.08	456	0.08	-2.12
UIC	402	0.07	0	0.00	N/A
Firstserver, Inc	388	0.07	394	0.07	-2.76
Cybertrust Inc	345	0.06	331	0.06	2.92
OCC	343	0.06	339	0.06	-0.09
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	342	0.06	339	0.06	-0.38
TC TrustCenter GmbH	336	0.06	308	0.06	7.72
suresupport.com	307	0.05	310	0.06	-2.21
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	304	0.05	295	0.05	1.76
none	280	0.05	274	0.05	0.91
Earthlink Inc	278	0.05	288	0.05	-4.68
Sonera	274	0.05	269	0.05	0.58
Register.com	274	0.05	255	0.05	6.10
TBS INTERNET	271	0.05	270	0.05	-0.89
AddTrust AB	262	0.05	276	0.05	-6.26
GeoTrust Inc	252	0.04	244	0.04	1.98
WTF ALFA	251	0.04	243	0.04	2.00
TDC	250	0.04	250	0.05	-1.26
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	221	0.04	233	0.04	-6.34
FNMT	221	0.04	226	0.04	-3.44
ICP-Brasil	214	0.04	202	0.04	4.61
Digi-Sign Limited	210	0.04	210	0.04	-1.26
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	193	0.03	187	0.03	1.91
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	191	0.03	173	0.03	9.02
QuoVadis Limited	185	0.03	166	0.03	10.05
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	184	0.03	112	0.02	62.22
National Institute of Informatics	181	0.03	172	0.03	3.91
Positive Software	163	0.03	166	0.03	-3.04
My Company Ltd	158	0.03	163	0.03	-4.28
CNRS	158	0.03	159	0.03	-1.88
OVH SAS	157	0.03	146	0.03	6.18
Apache HTTP Server	156	0.03	163	0.03	-5.50
SonicWALL, Inc.	155	0.03	150	0.03	2.04
RM	149	0.03	164	0.03	-10.29
America Online Inc.	149	0.03	141	0.03	4.35
Parallels, Inc.	139	0.02	121	0.02	13.43
EUNETIC GmbH	133	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
TNC	131	0.02	130	0.02	-0.50
OptimumSSL CA	128	0.02	125	0.02	1.11
Unicert Brasil Certificadora	125	0.02	124	0.02	-0.46
New Dream Network, LLC.	124	0.02	119	0.02	2.89
RBC Hosting Center	118	0.02	110	0.02	5.93
InterWorx	118	0.02	113	0.02	3.11
Positive Software Corporation	117	0.02	129	0.02	-10.44
Sun Microsystems Inc	116	0.02	119	0.02	-3.74
Default Web Site	109	0.02	116	0.02	-7.21
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH	109	0.02	110	0.02	-2.15
ServerAdmin 24	104	0.02	110	0.02	-6.64
MULTICERT-CA	104	0.02	103	0.02	-0.30
RegisterFly.com, inc.	101	0.02	117	0.02	-14.76
GANDI SAS	99	0.02	78	0.01	25.33
Digital Signature Trust Co.	98	0.02	94	0.02	2.95
IceWarp Software	96	0.02	97	0.02	-2.27
GlobalSign Inc	96	0.02	97	0.02	-2.27
Getronics PinkRoccade Nederland B.V.	94	0.02	83	0.01	11.83
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	90	0.02	83	0.01	7.07
CsideNet Co.,Ltd.	89	0.02	89	0.02	-1.26
WoSign, Inc.	86	0.02	81	0.01	4.84

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.