Certification Services in Canada (CA)

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 Canada (CA)

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 69.07 7481 7898 16227 16419 16805 17019 17364 17628 17949 17973 18090 18179 18338 18553 18745
Comodo 14.98 1795 2356 2598 2626 2741 2778 2834 2873 3616 3681 3825 3915 3946 4018 4066
Entrust.net 8.43 1218 1555 1763 1790 1832 1877 1930 2043 2103 2113 2147 2195 2236 2258 2288
Other 4.10 5714 7337 806 828 868 890 950 1031 826 855 875 969 1020 1064 1113
Network Solutions 2.03 0 57 212 226 240 255 275 299 362 373 437 477 503 534 552
AmbironTrustWave 1.39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 320 325 331 345 347 362 376

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. 26.63 2526 5610 6650 6628 6737 6725 6797 6811 6847 6786 6836 6877 6974 7110 7228
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 11.91 0 0 1141 1280 1495 1635 1800 1913 2452 2548 2721 2875 2983 3123 3233
Equifax 11.59 2027 866 1617 1806 2016 2203 2428 2613 2785 2877 2944 2971 3018 3083 3145
Thawte Consulting cc 11.39 2941 2897 2876 2910 2951 2961 2994 3038 3079 3084 3096 3094 3112 3108 3091
VeriSign, Inc. 11.34 0 28 1304 1439 1551 1672 1827 2008 2228 2371 2475 2655 2809 2950 3077
Entrust.net 8.32 1218 1555 1763 1786 1827 1868 1919 2032 2089 2099 2130 2176 2213 2227 2257
VeriSign Trust Network 4.80 990 1101 1164 1193 1216 1231 1235 1255 1274 1270 1273 1279 1289 1284 1303
RSA Data Security, Inc. 2.33 3408 3617 2279 2127 2030 1939 1788 1622 1451 1300 1185 1013 859 737 632
DigiCert Inc 2.21 31 123 216 224 242 250 270 296 400 428 440 511 537 562 599
Network Solutions L.L.C. 2.03 0 57 212 226 240 255 275 299 362 373 437 477 503 534 552
Comodo Limited 1.19 1764 2001 794 740 673 625 583 526 617 579 537 468 413 359 324
AddTrust AB 1.06 0 223 615 551 513 458 394 376 442 439 437 421 376 326 287
SecureTrust Corporation 0.82 0 0 0 0 0 2 23 52 82 101 116 143 161 196 222
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 0.79 142 255 242 240 238 232 232 231 236 231 233 229 222 216 214
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.77 62 70 116 127 129 130 136 172 174 173 178 188 200 204 208
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.57 86 158 245 248 268 270 267 255 238 224 215 202 186 166 154
StartCom Ltd. 0.42 0 50 92 92 90 98 102 109 107 108 108 108 105 106 115
Digi-Sign Limited 0.38 0 0 39 44 47 47 43 45 81 81 84 90 97 103 104
Comodo CA Limited 0.35 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 13 22 32 45 59 86 95
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.33 0 0 0 0 4 6 17 18 28 39 42 55 75 83 90
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.18 49 101 102 103 102 98 98 91 79 69 69 65 57 56 49
The USERTRUST Network 0.14 798 404 86 67 55 44 51 36 38 43 36 47 41 48 38
Entrust, Inc. 0.11 0 0 0 4 5 9 11 11 14 14 17 19 23 31 31
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.06 0 0 3 5 5 7 8 11 13 13 13 13 14 15 17
thawte, Inc. 0.04 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 5 6 6 8 8 10 10
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.04 0 4 5 6 7 7 6 6 8 8 9 10 11 11 11
Cybertrust Inc 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 10 8
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.02 0 5 3 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 3 3 3 5 6
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.02 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 3 4 5
QuoVadis Limited 0.02 0 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 5 5
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.02 2 2 4 4 3 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 6 6
GlobalSign 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
GlobalSign Inc 0.01 0 7 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 10 8 6 4 4 3
FreeSSL 0.01 139 20 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Syncrude Canada Ltd 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3
GeoTrust Inc 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.01 0 1 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.01 0 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Digital Signature Trust Co. 0.01 9 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
Nestle 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 34 5 5 6 6 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Registry Services Corporation 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
Akamai 0.00 7 6 7 5 5 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
IPS Seguridad CA 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
MindGenies 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Disney Enterprises 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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