Certification Services in Belgium (BE)

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 Belgium (BE)

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

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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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
GlobalSign 35.47 299 381 388 392 397 405 415 435 444 452 469 502 507 508
VeriSign 32.68 382 430 447 429 444 448 452 462 458 460 469 477 473 468
GeoTrust 17.32 98 151 160 166 170 179 192 197 201 206 217 221 237 248
Comodo 10.34 79 123 138 144 144 142 143 147 148 149 153 153 156 148
Other 2.58 16 24 23 28 31 33 32 35 35 33 34 35 36 37
StartCom Ltd. 1.61 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 10 11 13 16 21 23

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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
GlobalSign nv-sa 35.34 299 381 388 392 397 405 414 434 443 451 468 501 506 506
Equifax Secure Inc. 14.46 8 82 92 101 105 121 141 152 157 167 181 186 203 207
RSA Data Security, Inc. 11.45 140 162 164 157 162 160 160 164 162 160 159 160 164 164
Thawte Consulting cc 10.27 143 138 141 136 138 138 142 145 152 155 158 159 152 147
VeriSign Trust Network 8.31 99 117 127 117 124 128 127 128 117 117 122 128 122 119
Comodo Limited 5.45 79 117 133 140 139 137 134 135 133 129 97 88 86 78
AddTrust AB 4.26 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 9 14 49 58 61 61
The USERTRUST Network 2.09 22 55 55 52 52 47 41 35 34 25 21 23 22 30
StartCom Ltd. 1.61 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 10 11 13 16 21 23
VeriSign, Inc. 1.33 0 0 1 3 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 16 19
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.33 0 13 14 16 15 15 15 16 17 17 18 17 19 19
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.91 11 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 13 13 13 13 13
DigiCert Inc. 0.63 0 6 5 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 9 9
Government CA 0.63 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 9 10 9 9
Equifax 0.63 63 12 12 12 12 11 10 10 10 10 11 10 10 9
BGC-IssuingCA 0.35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 4 5 5
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.21 0 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Entrust.net 0.14 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
GlobalSign Inc 0.14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.14 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 2
Actalis S.p.A. 0.07 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
FreeSSL 0.00 5 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.00 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

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