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	November 2014 Count	November 2014 %	October 2014 Count	October 2014 %	Growth %
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	371,654	19.41	367,375	19.84	-2.17
GeoTrust, Inc.	284,819	14.88	288,571	15.59	-4.56
COMODO CA Limited	228,576	11.94	216,175	11.68	2.25
DigiCert	153,569	8.02	147,868	7.99	0.43
GeoTrust Inc.	119,789	6.26	103,100	5.57	12.35
GlobalSign nv-sa	91,151	4.76	87,191	4.71	1.09
Verisign	86,968	4.54	90,259	4.87	-6.83
Thawte, Inc.	71,685	3.74	73,886	3.99	-6.18
Gandi	49,971	2.61	0	0.00	N/A
Unknown	38,211	2.00	38,060	2.06	-2.92
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	37,541	1.96	37,128	2.01	-2.22
Network Solutions L.L.C.	29,606	1.55	29,494	1.59	-2.93
StartCom Ltd.	26,347	1.38	25,461	1.38	0.06
Entrust, Inc.	20,903	1.09	20,519	1.11	-1.49
Internet2	19,916	1.04	19,495	1.05	-1.21
TERENA	19,114	1.00	18,787	1.01	-1.62
AlphaSSL	19,017	0.99	19,237	1.04	-4.41
Cybertrust Inc	14,733	0.77	9,155	0.49	55.62
Parallels	12,536	0.65	12,019	0.65	0.86
Microsoft Corporation	11,962	0.62	11,150	0.60	3.74
Symantec Corporation	10,518	0.55	6,803	0.37	49.51
thawte, Inc.	10,211	0.53	7,174	0.39	37.64
Volusion, Inc.	8,605	0.45	8,645	0.47	-3.75
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.	8,565	0.45	8,371	0.45	-1.06
SomeOrganization	7,728	0.40	7,429	0.40	0.59
CompanyName	7,033	0.37	0	0.00	N/A
Unizeto Technologies S.A.	5,993	0.31	5,804	0.31	-0.15
Google Inc	5,826	0.30	5,608	0.30	0.46
Equifax (Geotrust)	5,700	0.30	5,859	0.32	-5.92
GANDI SAS	4,840	0.25	53,406	2.88	-91.24
Comodo Limited	4,830	0.25	4,857	0.26	-3.84
Cybertrust Japan Co., Ltd.	4,805	0.25	4,778	0.26	-2.75
SECOM Trust Systems CO.,LTD.	3,912	0.20	3,906	0.21	-3.15
Verizon Enterprise Solutions	3,748	0.20	763	0.04	375.01
Comodo CA Limited	3,722	0.19	3,888	0.21	-7.43
SecureTrust Corporation	3,160	0.17	3,109	0.17	-1.71
Servision Inc.	2,830	0.15	2,779	0.15	-1.53
GeoTrust Inc	2,718	0.14	2,980	0.16	-11.80
Globe Hosting, Inc.	2,675	0.14	2,600	0.14	-0.51
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	2,666	0.14	2,776	0.15	-7.13
none	2,530	0.13	2,481	0.13	-1.39
QuoVadis Limited	2,324	0.12	2,188	0.12	2.71
ispgateway	2,299	0.12	2,245	0.12	-0.97
Thawte	2,039	0.11	2,089	0.11	-5.61
Root CA	1,679	0.09	1,684	0.09	-3.59
Government of Korea	1,552	0.08	1,545	0.08	-2.86
CAcert Inc.	1,451	0.08	1,447	0.08	-3.03
U.S. Government	1,386	0.07	1,358	0.07	-1.31
T-Systems International GmbH	1,373	0.07	1,358	0.07	-2.23
National Institute of Informatics	1,351	0.07	1,337	0.07	-2.29
Autistici/Inventati	1,310	0.07	1,300	0.07	-2.56
Register.com	1,284	0.07	1,302	0.07	-4.64
AusCERT	1,221	0.06	1,267	0.07	-6.81
EUNETIC GmbH	1,136	0.06	1,147	0.06	-4.23
UIC	1,092	0.06	1,086	0.06	-2.77
TAIWAN-CA INC.	1,059	0.06	1,010	0.05	1.39
Intermediate Certificate	1,026	0.05	981	0.05	1.14
DreamHost	944	0.05	826	0.04	10.51
NetLock Kft.	832	0.04	844	0.05	-4.67
Parallels, Inc.	759	0.04	751	0.04	-2.27
GlobalSign	697	0.04	727	0.04	-7.29
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	689	0.04	635	0.03	4.92
DOMENY.PL Ltd.	680	0.04	642	0.03	2.42
SWsoft, Inc.	650	0.03	654	0.04	-3.89
JSC Regional Network Information Center	613	0.03	478	0.03	24.01
Snake Oil, Ltd	600	0.03	597	0.03	-2.81
SwissSign AG	599	0.03	582	0.03	-0.48
KAGOYA JAPAN Inc.	577	0.03	561	0.03	-0.54
FNMT	542	0.03	546	0.03	-4.01
ICP-Brasil	533	0.03	530	0.03	-2.75
KPN Corporate Market BV	522	0.03	491	0.03	2.81
Trend Micro Inc	515	0.03	495	0.03	0.61
TBS INTERNET	498	0.03	490	0.03	-1.72
SSL.com	489	0.03	451	0.02	4.85
SGssl	482	0.03	478	0.03	-2.49
KEYNECTIS	481	0.03	466	0.03	-0.19
Firstserver, Inc	476	0.02	472	0.03	-2.48
OCC	454	0.02	452	0.02	-2.87
Zimbra Collaboration Server	430	0.02	425	0.02	-2.16
CrossTrust	430	0.02	433	0.02	-3.97
Alpha	426	0.02	423	0.02	-2.61
Ministere education nationale (MENESR)	362	0.02	358	0.02	-2.22
ACCV	351	0.02	336	0.02	1.02
HTTPS Management Certificate for SonicWALL (self-signed)	343	0.02	344	0.02	-3.58
TrustSign Certificadora Digital	335	0.02	321	0.02	0.92
nazwa.pl S.A.	330	0.02	310	0.02	2.94
Agencia Catalana de Certificacio (NIF Q-0801176-I)	322	0.02	317	0.02	-1.77
XX	319	0.02	326	0.02	-5.38
GAD EG	305	0.02	293	0.02	0.66
OptimumSSL CA	298	0.02	375	0.02	-23.16
Vodafone Group	277	0.01	274	0.01	-2.24
INTERWORX LLC	273	0.01	265	0.01	-0.38
DREAMSCAPE NETWORKS FZ-LLC	270	0.01	252	0.01	3.61
Zimbra Collaboration Suite	256	0.01	257	0.01	-3.68
Pavel&Pavel	246	0.01	244	0.01	-2.51
WebSupport, s.r.o.	238	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Corporation Service Company	229	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Universitaet Stuttgart	224	0.01	222	0.01	-2.43
Apache HTTP Server	222	0.01	222	0.01	-3.30
AC Camerfirma SA	217	0.01	207	0.01	1.37

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.