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 2014 Count	July 2014 %	June 2014 Count	June 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	353,475	19.77	344,496	19.69	0.41
GeoTrust, Inc.	316,009	17.68	309,314	17.68	-0.03
COMODO CA Limited	196,913	11.02	191,594	10.95	0.57
DigiCert	126,542	7.08	122,860	7.02	0.79
Verisign	97,181	5.44	98,142	5.61	-3.10
GeoTrust Inc.	78,639	4.40	77,043	4.40	-0.12
Thawte, Inc.	78,485	4.39	77,517	4.43	-0.92
GlobalSign nv-sa	77,948	4.36	76,161	4.35	0.15
Unknown	40,181	2.25	39,526	2.26	-0.52
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	36,362	2.03	35,622	2.04	-0.11
GANDI SAS	35,986	2.01	34,948	2.00	0.76
Network Solutions L.L.C.	30,130	1.69	29,768	1.70	-0.95
StartCom Ltd.	23,675	1.32	23,182	1.33	-0.06
AlphaSSL	22,257	1.25	21,846	1.25	-0.30
Entrust, Inc.	20,442	1.14	20,504	1.17	-2.44
Internet2	18,598	1.04	18,268	1.04	-0.38
TERENA	18,396	1.03	18,066	1.03	-0.36
Cybertrust Inc	15,652	0.88	14,914	0.85	2.70
Parallels	11,417	0.64	11,191	0.64	-0.17
Volusion, Inc.	8,649	0.48	8,547	0.49	-0.98
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	7,881	0.44	7,746	0.44	-0.44
Microsoft Corporation	7,417	0.41	4,536	0.26	60.01
SomeOrganization	6,698	0.37	6,547	0.37	0.11
Equifax (Geotrust)	6,690	0.37	6,766	0.39	-3.24
CompanyName	6,357	0.36	6,346	0.36	-1.97
Comodo Limited	5,842	0.33	5,903	0.34	-3.16
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	5,439	0.30	5,288	0.30	0.65
Google Inc	5,027	0.28	4,814	0.28	2.19
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,748	0.27	4,710	0.27	-1.36
thawte, Inc.	4,417	0.25	4,374	0.25	-1.18
Comodo CA Limited	4,389	0.25	4,438	0.25	-3.22
GeoTrust Inc	4,377	0.24	4,412	0.25	-2.92
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,975	0.22	3,950	0.23	-1.53
SecureTrust Corporation	3,478	0.19	3,503	0.20	-2.84
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	2,795	0.16	2,357	0.13	16.04
Servision Inc.	2,703	0.15	2,686	0.15	-1.53
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,468	0.14	2,410	0.14	0.21
Thawte	2,323	0.13	2,336	0.13	-2.69
none	2,314	0.13	2,253	0.13	0.50
ispgateway	2,110	0.12	2,093	0.12	-1.35
QuoVadis Limited	2,027	0.11	2,010	0.11	-1.32
Root CA	1,760	0.10	1,767	0.10	-2.53
Government of Korea	1,473	0.08	1,422	0.08	1.37
CAcert Inc.	1,458	0.08	1,440	0.08	-0.92
U.S. Government	1,444	0.08	1,438	0.08	-1.74
Register.com	1,357	0.08	1,360	0.08	-2.36
T-Systems International GmbH	1,341	0.08	1,321	0.08	-0.66
National Institute of Informatics	1,311	0.07	1,307	0.07	-1.85
AusCERT	1,305	0.07	1,285	0.07	-0.62
Symantec Corporation	1,294	0.07	1,064	0.06	19.01
EUNETIC GmbH	1,099	0.06	1,092	0.06	-1.52
UIC	1,075	0.06	1,067	0.06	-1.41
TAIWAN-CA INC.	986	0.06	965	0.06	-0.02
Intermediate Certificate	970	0.05	937	0.05	1.30
Autistici/Inventati	854	0.05	1,239	0.07	-32.55
GlobalSign	840	0.05	851	0.05	-3.41
NetLock Kft.	828	0.05	811	0.05	-0.09
Parallels, Inc.	822	0.05	801	0.05	0.42
Trend Micro Inc	783	0.04	781	0.04	-1.89
SWsoft, Inc.	732	0.04	743	0.04	-3.59
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	660	0.04	650	0.04	-0.64
Snake Oil, Ltd	635	0.04	634	0.04	-1.99
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	615	0.03	597	0.03	0.81
DreamHost	603	0.03	565	0.03	4.44
SwissSign AG	557	0.03	548	0.03	-0.54
FNMT	553	0.03	554	0.03	-2.32
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	530	0.03	519	0.03	-0.07
ICP-Brasil	525	0.03	529	0.03	-2.88
TBS INTERNET	474	0.03	467	0.03	-0.68
Firstserver, Inc	470	0.03	471	0.03	-2.35
Alpha	465	0.03	452	0.03	0.67
SGssl	460	0.03	456	0.03	-1.29
OCC	457	0.03	445	0.03	0.49
CrossTrust	436	0.02	437	0.02	-2.37
Zimbra Collaboration Server	413	0.02	406	0.02	-0.46
KEYNECTIS	410	0.02	392	0.02	2.35
JSC Regional Network Information Center	408	0.02	405	0.02	-1.42
SSL.com	377	0.02	350	0.02	5.40
KPN Corporate Market BV	371	0.02	367	0.02	-1.08
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	358	0.02	365	0.02	-4.02
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	346	0.02	339	0.02	-0.12
XX	327	0.02	315	0.02	1.58
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	325	0.02	310	0.02	2.59
OptimumSSL CA	318	0.02	376	0.02	-17.24
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	306	0.02	301	0.02	-0.52
TC TrustCenter GmbH	293	0.02	297	0.02	-3.46
ACCV	283	0.02	278	0.02	-0.38
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	282	0.02	274	0.02	0.71
Vodafone Group	272	0.02	269	0.02	-1.05
GAD EG	264	0.01	250	0.01	3.34
ips Certification Authority	261	0.01	268	0.02	-4.70
Getronics Nederland BV	257	0.01	258	0.01	-2.52
Dotname Korea Corp.	256	0.01	270	0.02	-7.22
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	244	0.01	247	0.01	-3.33
Pavel&Pavel	242	0.01	241	0.01	-1.74
Apache HTTP Server	231	0.01	228	0.01	-0.86
INTERWORX LLC	228	0.01	269	0.02	-17.06
Wells Fargo	212	0.01	212	0.01	-2.14
Universitaet Stuttgart	210	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt	207	0.01	204	0.01	-0.71

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.