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.

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 42.34 391 458 756 779 790 796 812 832 847 847 853 868 876 870 881
Other 41.09 492 688 649 676 702 735 752 771 785 791 801 816 832 837 855
Comodo 15.62 98 148 171 179 184 184 192 199 285 289 305 308 312 316 325
Network Solutions 0.67 0 0 5 5 5 5 7 7 10 10 14 14 14 14 14
Entrust.net 0.14 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 3
AmbironTrustWave 0.14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 3 3 3

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
GlobalSign nv-sa 22.54 336 443 539 553 558 556 555 551 555 552 537 516 503 481 469
Equifax Secure Inc. 14.37 43 157 231 238 244 244 254 258 261 265 267 283 289 287 299
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 10.76 0 0 73 85 92 102 115 122 173 178 190 191 200 209 224
Thawte Consulting cc 7.88 133 152 163 165 164 163 160 168 171 164 162 159 158 160 164
Cybertrust 7.54 0 0 10 17 29 54 66 79 89 100 111 127 143 149 157
VeriSign Trust Network 6.73 106 117 119 117 119 123 124 125 128 129 130 139 139 140 140
VeriSign, Inc. 5.05 0 10 26 29 36 41 52 60 69 76 80 85 96 99 105
Equifax 3.84 38 10 44 56 63 69 76 82 88 89 89 87 86 79 80
RSA Data Security, Inc. 3.36 145 162 146 146 138 131 120 112 106 98 99 92 83 77 70
GlobalSign 2.69 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 10 24 36 46 56
DigiCert Inc 2.35 2 6 13 14 13 16 16 22 32 35 36 41 42 46 49
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 2.07 11 11 23 26 26 28 31 33 33 34 34 35 35 41 43
AddTrust AB 2.07 0 9 57 54 53 51 49 48 56 55 55 55 53 51 43
StartCom Ltd. 1.63 0 10 39 37 41 43 43 41 39 35 40 39 39 33 34
Comodo Limited 1.54 96 133 34 33 32 24 20 20 44 44 42 42 39 33 32
Comodo CA Limited 0.91 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 9 13 14 16 19
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 0.86 7 17 19 19 19 19 18 19 18 20 20 18 20 20 18
Government CA 0.82 0 9 9 11 12 14 14 13 14 13 14 14 16 17 17
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.67 0 0 5 5 5 5 7 7 10 10 14 14 14 14 14
Certipost s.a./n.v. 0.43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 4 4 5 9
GlobalSign Inc 0.29 0 1 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 8 8 7 6 6 6
OVH SAS 0.19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4
TBS INTERNET 0.19 0 0 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 4 4 4 4
Digi-Sign Limited 0.14 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 2 3 3
Entrust.net 0.14 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 3
Cybertrust Inc 0.14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3
thawte, Inc. 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
BGC-IssuingCA 0.10 0 4 6 8 10 11 11 13 4 4 3 3 2 2 2
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.10 1 3 2 2 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Postecom S.p.A. 0.10 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
ChainedSSL 0.05 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The USERTRUST Network 0.05 51 34 7 8 5 4 6 6 4 4 4 2 2 4 1
MasterCard Worldwide 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
SecureTrust Corporation 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.05 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.05 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
FreeSSL 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Actalis S.p.A. 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Audkenni hf. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
unknown 0.00 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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