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	August 2012 Count	August 2012 %	July 2012 Count	July 2012 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	254,186	22.39	249,079	22.40	-0.04
GeoTrust, Inc.	154,228	13.58	147,632	13.27	2.33
Verisign	91,848	8.09	91,403	8.22	-1.57
COMODO CA Limited	67,440	5.94	64,212	5.77	2.88
Thawte, Inc.	63,050	5.55	62,169	5.59	-0.66
DigiCert	50,309	4.43	48,690	4.38	1.21
GeoTrust Inc.	44,455	3.92	43,691	3.93	-0.34
Equifax (Geotrust)	31,635	2.79	33,367	3.00	-7.13
GlobalSign nv-sa	31,143	2.74	30,151	2.71	1.17
Unknown	30,918	2.72	30,282	2.72	0.01
Comodo CA Limited	25,654	2.26	26,168	2.35	-3.97
Comodo Limited	25,384	2.24	25,501	2.29	-2.50
Network Solutions L.L.C.	23,393	2.06	23,025	2.07	-0.48
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	21,561	1.90	21,057	1.89	0.30
Entrust, Inc.	14,651	1.29	14,374	1.29	-0.16
GlobalSign	13,479	1.19	13,528	1.22	-2.40
CAcert Inc.	11,557	1.02	9,777	0.88	15.78
TERENA	11,279	0.99	11,086	1.00	-0.34
StartCom Ltd.	10,277	0.91	9,879	0.89	1.90
SecureTrust Corporation	8,974	0.79	8,983	0.81	-2.15
AlphaSSL	8,532	0.75	7,968	0.72	4.88
Thawte	8,301	0.73	8,822	0.79	-7.83
Internet2	7,155	0.63	6,735	0.61	4.06
Parallels	5,753	0.51	5,590	0.50	0.81
Akamai Technologies Inc	5,537	0.49	5,334	0.48	1.68
SomeOrganization	5,218	0.46	5,199	0.47	-1.69
Volusion, Inc.	4,705	0.41	4,495	0.40	2.53
GeoTrust Inc	3,972	0.35	3,855	0.35	0.92
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	3,861	0.34	3,839	0.35	-1.49
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	2,935	0.26	2,900	0.26	-0.87
thawte, Inc.	2,585	0.23	2,559	0.23	-1.05
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	2,436	0.21	2,390	0.21	-0.16
Google Inc	2,330	0.21	2,256	0.20	1.16
Alpha	2,100	0.18	2,098	0.19	-1.96
Servision Inc.	2,043	0.18	2,018	0.18	-0.84
Root CA	1,885	0.17	1,871	0.17	-1.32
GTE Corporation	1,536	0.14	1,451	0.13	3.69
U.S. Government	1,434	0.13	1,435	0.13	-2.12
Cybertrust Inc	1,430	0.13	1,402	0.13	-0.09
SWsoft, Inc.	1,412	0.12	1,585	0.14	-12.74
QuoVadis Limited	1,340	0.12	1,311	0.12	0.12
GANDI SAS	1,319	0.12	1,266	0.11	2.05
ispgateway	1,214	0.11	1,199	0.11	-0.82
Register.com	1,149	0.10	1,127	0.10	-0.14
none	1,147	0.10	1,127	0.10	-0.31
TC TrustCenter GmbH	1,126	0.10	1,150	0.10	-4.09
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	1,105	0.10	1,060	0.10	2.11
UIC	981	0.09	977	0.09	-1.65
T-Systems International GmbH	933	0.08	914	0.08	-0.01
Government of Korea	925	0.08	892	0.08	1.57
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	878	0.08	778	0.07	10.54
SECOM Trust.net	837	0.07	858	0.08	-4.45
Snake Oil, Ltd	831	0.07	852	0.08	-4.46
Globe Hosting, Inc.	824	0.07	785	0.07	2.82
National Institute of Informatics	800	0.07	790	0.07	-0.81
AusCERT	791	0.07	775	0.07	-0.03
Autistici/Inventati	779	0.07	764	0.07	-0.13
EUNETIC GmbH	777	0.07	758	0.07	0.41
ips Certification Authority	754	0.07	755	0.07	-2.18
OVH SAS	740	0.07	738	0.07	-1.78
Parallels, Inc.	647	0.06	634	0.06	-0.04
Firstserver, Inc	482	0.04	484	0.04	-2.45
TAIWAN-CA INC.	470	0.04	463	0.04	-0.57
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	415	0.04	425	0.04	-4.35
FNMT	415	0.04	418	0.04	-2.75
CrossTrust	412	0.04	407	0.04	-0.85
OCC	409	0.04	404	0.04	-0.84
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	408	0.04	397	0.04	0.67
RBC Hosting Center	401	0.04	390	0.04	0.71
ICP-Brasil	390	0.03	370	0.03	3.25
WTF ALFA	384	0.03	378	0.03	-0.49
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	376	0.03	374	0.03	-1.52
TBS INTERNET	365	0.03	367	0.03	-2.58
Apache HTTP Server	357	0.03	350	0.03	-0.09
Cybertrust	321	0.03	343	0.03	-8.33
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd.	321	0.03	341	0.03	-7.79
Secure Business Services, Inc.	309	0.03	328	0.03	-7.72
OptimumSSL CA	301	0.03	308	0.03	-4.27
XX	285	0.03	279	0.03	0.06
SonicWALL, Inc.	279	0.02	270	0.02	1.22
Getronics Nederland BV	271	0.02	261	0.02	1.70
SwissSign AG	255	0.02	249	0.02	0.31
Sonera	247	0.02	248	0.02	-2.44
InterWorx	225	0.02	208	0.02	5.96
TDC	224	0.02	222	0.02	-1.17
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	223	0.02	215	0.02	1.60
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	221	0.02	220	0.02	-1.60
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	219	0.02	223	0.02	-3.81
NetLock Kft.	216	0.02	198	0.02	6.86
SGssl	206	0.02	198	0.02	1.91
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	201	0.02	193	0.02	2.01
SiteGround LLC.	200	0.02	207	0.02	-5.36
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	199	0.02	187	0.02	4.24
Generalitat Valenciana	198	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
Digi-Sign Limited	192	0.02	191	0.02	-1.54
Positive Software	188	0.02	185	0.02	-0.46
My Company Ltd	182	0.02	175	0.02	1.87
Wells Fargo	179	0.02	176	0.02	-0.38
Dotname Korea Corp.	175	0.02	169	0.02	1.43
Rackspace	174	0.02	0	0.00	N/A

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.