Certification Services in Australia (AU)

This analysis relates to those sites found in the survey where the common name in the certificate matched the hostname, and the certificate's digital signature was not detected as being self-signed.

Market Share of Certification Authorities in Australia (AU)

The following graph shows the share of sites currently certified by each certificate authority. Brands belonging to the major companies have been grouped together.

The worldwide version of this data is available on a separate page. This data is also available divided into:

Certificate market share

Certificate market share

The following table and graph show the change over time of the number of sites certified by the main CA companies. The different brands of the major players are grouped together (so RSA Data Security & Thawte are included in Verisign; Equifax and UserTrust are included in GeoTrust).

Certificate authority groups over time

Certificate authority group share

Authority Current
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 67.84 4666 4987 9408 9584 9747 9847 10126 10432 10688 10796 10984 11169 11348 11505 11720
Comodo 26.76 1880 2402 2776 2809 2876 2934 3053 3126 4036 4076 4307 4424 4502 4577 4622
Other 3.98 1954 3136 363 369 378 423 449 491 519 552 571 612 640 654 687
Entrust.net 0.55 86 99 70 72 71 76 74 76 78 81 81 84 90 91 95
Go Daddy 0.45 2 27 36 37 38 37 53 55 55 56 56 62 70 75 77
AmbironTrustWave 0.43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60 60 63 65 66 69 74

The following graph and table show the complete results by certificate authority. These results are broken out into the individual companies and brands, as given by the organisation field on the certificate.

Certificate authority brands over time

Certificate authority brand share

Authority Current
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Equifax Secure Inc. 28.75 808 2512 3762 3820 3899 3959 4087 4205 4338 4397 4510 4628 4747 4826 4966
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 23.44 0 0 1329 1506 1707 1918 2176 2364 3131 3223 3475 3666 3796 3948 4049
Thawte Consulting cc 14.41 2562 2378 2318 2341 2352 2386 2407 2462 2484 2451 2466 2452 2458 2488 2489
VeriSign Trust Network 11.58 1468 1712 1875 1907 1913 1887 1910 1940 1960 1978 1991 2006 1997 1992 2000
Equifax 7.28 510 186 485 539 615 681 771 867 937 980 1024 1098 1157 1210 1258
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 2.33 186 452 447 454 446 433 443 433 438 443 435 423 419 408 402
VeriSign, Inc. 2.20 0 3 7 12 30 51 88 126 159 200 230 273 314 346 380
DigiCert Inc 1.47 14 57 84 92 92 100 110 125 190 200 199 226 237 240 254
AddTrust AB 1.43 0 189 558 502 447 389 340 324 373 356 359 347 329 280 247
Comodo Limited 1.41 1866 2156 882 792 713 613 522 423 497 456 425 348 305 271 243
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 1.27 26 38 101 102 111 119 126 153 168 177 191 200 212 219 220
RSA Data Security, Inc. 1.06 450 442 446 454 441 415 389 366 346 317 295 256 230 207 183
Entrust.net 0.55 86 99 70 72 71 76 74 76 78 81 81 84 90 91 95
StartCom Ltd. 0.48 0 35 68 68 66 72 74 72 73 82 82 83 79 78 83
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.31 0 0 0 0 4 6 8 10 16 20 21 30 41 46 53
COMODO CA Limited 0.29 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4 15 16 23 34 41 46 50
SecureTrust Corporation 0.27 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 12 16 21 26 31 35 42 46
GlobalSign Inc 0.21 0 14 16 18 16 29 28 28 29 30 30 30 32 33 37
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.20 0 6 14 14 15 18 18 17 18 19 23 24 27 30 35
The USERTRUST Network 0.17 492 264 59 48 44 28 26 27 21 25 27 27 19 21 30
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.16 13 24 50 46 47 52 52 46 44 39 37 34 31 27 28
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.14 2 27 36 37 34 31 45 45 39 36 35 32 29 29 24
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.09 0 0 4 4 4 4 5 10 14 16 17 17 17 15 15
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.09 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 9 12 14 14 15
Digi-Sign Limited 0.08 0 0 7 9 9 10 10 9 13 13 13 13 13 14 14
thawte, Inc. 0.06 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 10
Cybertrust Inc 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 6 6 9 10
Root CA 0.05 0 5 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 6 7 8
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.03 3 4 8 7 6 7 7 8 8 8 7 6 6 6 6
SecureNet CA Class B 0.02 12 13 8 8 8 8 8 6 5 3 3 4 5 4 4
Dell Inc. 0.02 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 4 3 4 4 4 4
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH 0.01 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
RSA Security Inc. 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Accenture 0.01 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.01 0 22 6 6 5 5 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalSign 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2
MasterCard Worldwide 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.01 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2
MasterCard International 0.00 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0
Akamai 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 67 10 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CAcert Inc. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.00 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Etisalat 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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