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	September 2014 Count	September 2014 %	August 2014 Count	August 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	365,643	19.83	356,855	19.54	1.50
GeoTrust, Inc.	302,603	16.41	307,717	16.85	-2.58
COMODO CA Limited	210,081	11.40	200,440	10.98	3.83
DigiCert	143,793	7.80	140,299	7.68	1.53
Verisign	93,970	5.10	95,860	5.25	-2.89
GeoTrust Inc.	85,459	4.64	83,188	4.56	1.77
GlobalSign nv-sa	82,390	4.47	80,392	4.40	1.52
Thawte, Inc.	77,960	4.23	78,467	4.30	-1.58
GANDI SAS	52,127	2.83	51,326	2.81	0.61
Unknown	38,094	2.07	40,556	2.22	-6.95
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	37,312	2.02	36,787	2.01	0.48
Network Solutions L.L.C.	29,433	1.60	29,509	1.62	-1.19
StartCom Ltd.	26,874	1.46	26,602	1.46	0.08
AlphaSSL	21,029	1.14	21,719	1.19	-4.08
Entrust, Inc.	20,532	1.11	20,557	1.13	-1.06
Internet2	19,188	1.04	18,886	1.03	0.65
TERENA	18,616	1.01	18,396	1.01	0.25
Cybertrust Inc	16,045	0.87	16,059	0.88	-1.02
Parallels	11,858	0.64	11,673	0.64	0.63
Volusion, Inc.	8,691	0.47	8,617	0.47	-0.09
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	8,230	0.45	8,083	0.44	0.86
SomeOrganization	7,164	0.39	6,810	0.37	4.21
CompanyName	6,799	0.37	6,793	0.37	-0.85
Equifax (Geotrust)	6,186	0.34	6,346	0.35	-3.43
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	5,752	0.31	5,552	0.30	2.63
Microsoft Corporation	5,635	0.31	7,758	0.42	-28.05
Google Inc	5,441	0.30	5,271	0.29	2.26
Comodo Limited	5,074	0.28	5,266	0.29	-4.55
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,772	0.26	4,755	0.26	-0.58
thawte, Inc.	4,535	0.25	4,503	0.25	-0.23
Comodo CA Limited	4,037	0.22	4,192	0.23	-4.60
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,932	0.21	3,929	0.22	-0.86
Symantec Corporation	3,616	0.20	2,273	0.12	57.59
GeoTrust Inc	3,335	0.18	3,969	0.22	-16.76
SecureTrust Corporation	3,231	0.18	3,360	0.18	-4.74
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	2,851	0.15	2,760	0.15	2.33
Servision Inc.	2,750	0.15	2,721	0.15	0.12
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,564	0.14	2,539	0.14	0.04
none	2,393	0.13	2,390	0.13	-0.81
ispgateway	2,194	0.12	2,164	0.12	0.44
Thawte	2,171	0.12	2,256	0.12	-4.67
QuoVadis Limited	2,081	0.11	2,044	0.11	0.86
Root CA	1,728	0.09	1,693	0.09	1.11
Government of Korea	1,528	0.08	1,504	0.08	0.64
CAcert Inc.	1,478	0.08	1,466	0.08	-0.13
U.S. Government	1,417	0.08	1,432	0.08	-1.97
T-Systems International GmbH	1,365	0.07	1,357	0.07	-0.35
National Institute of Informatics	1,338	0.07	1,328	0.07	-0.19
Register.com	1,336	0.07	1,343	0.07	-1.45
AusCERT	1,324	0.07	1,324	0.07	-0.94
Autistici/Inventati	1,290	0.07	1,278	0.07	-0.01
EUNETIC GmbH	1,127	0.06	1,110	0.06	0.58
UIC	1,081	0.06	1,080	0.06	-0.85
TAIWAN-CA INC.	1,002	0.05	1,001	0.05	-0.84
Intermediate Certificate	997	0.05	1,017	0.06	-2.89
NetLock Kft.	841	0.05	830	0.05	0.38
Trend Micro Inc	827	0.04	810	0.04	1.14
GlobalSign	789	0.04	804	0.04	-2.79
Parallels, Inc.	779	0.04	791	0.04	-2.44
DreamHost	747	0.04	674	0.04	9.79
SWsoft, Inc.	691	0.04	712	0.04	-3.86
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	684	0.04	677	0.04	0.09
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	652	0.04	642	0.04	0.61
Snake Oil, Ltd	616	0.03	626	0.03	-2.52
SwissSign AG	569	0.03	563	0.03	0.12
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	549	0.03	539	0.03	0.90
FNMT	547	0.03	547	0.03	-0.94
ICP-Brasil	533	0.03	528	0.03	0.00
TBS INTERNET	483	0.03	474	0.03	0.94
SGssl	480	0.03	473	0.03	0.53
JSC Regional Network Information Center	466	0.03	432	0.02	6.86
KPN Corporate Market BV	464	0.03	396	0.02	16.07
Firstserver, Inc	464	0.03	464	0.03	-0.94
OCC	454	0.02	454	0.02	-0.94
KEYNECTIS	450	0.02	431	0.02	3.43
SSL.com	433	0.02	403	0.02	6.44
CrossTrust	433	0.02	435	0.02	-1.39
Alpha	433	0.02	446	0.02	-3.82
Zimbra Collaboration Server	416	0.02	413	0.02	-0.22
OptimumSSL CA	381	0.02	378	0.02	-0.15
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	350	0.02	335	0.02	3.50
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	344	0.02	344	0.02	-0.94
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	336	0.02	325	0.02	2.42
ACCV	331	0.02	327	0.02	0.27
XX	316	0.02	321	0.02	-2.48
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	316	0.02	311	0.02	0.66
nazwa.pl S.A.	282	0.02	0	0.00	N/A
GAD EG	282	0.02	273	0.01	2.33
INTERWORX LLC	277	0.02	276	0.02	-0.58
Vodafone Group	275	0.01	278	0.02	-2.01
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	268	0.01	274	0.02	-3.11
Pavel&Pavel	244	0.01	243	0.01	-0.53
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	244	0.01	246	0.01	-1.74
TC TrustCenter GmbH	230	0.01	267	0.01	-14.66
ips Certification Authority	225	0.01	243	0.01	-8.28
Universitaet Stuttgart	220	0.01	203	0.01	7.36
Apache HTTP Server	219	0.01	233	0.01	-6.89
Dotname Korea Corp.	216	0.01	231	0.01	-7.37
Wells Fargo	213	0.01	214	0.01	-1.40
Microsec Ltd.	204	0.01	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.