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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign 39.31 7529 7722 7757 7688 7712 7698 7727 7863 7898 7873 7884 7881 7867 7838
GeoTrust 37.89 4692 6146 6270 6368 6400 6505 6595 6845 6934 7005 7105 7277 7439 7556
Comodo 11.95 1778 2090 2138 2142 2152 2194 2219 2294 2351 2373 2390 2424 2457 2382
Entrust.net 7.86 1115 1307 1360 1367 1409 1433 1452 1512 1555 1454 1478 1495 1539 1568
Other 2.06 90 189 202 212 210 223 248 274 307 315 344 368 401 411
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.93 40 120 126 136 141 139 148 158 158 167 171 173 183 186

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
Equifax Secure Inc. 32.55 556 4224 4423 4640 4749 4977 5136 5388 5610 5787 6035 6225 6411 6490
RSA Data Security, Inc. 16.05 3335 3529 3577 3540 3562 3536 3557 3618 3617 3621 3589 3458 3321 3200
Thawte Consulting cc 14.18 3210 2907 2877 2862 2839 2831 2828 2876 2897 2866 2862 2855 2841 2828
Entrust.net 7.86 1115 1307 1360 1367 1409 1433 1452 1512 1555 1454 1478 1495 1539 1568
Comodo Limited 7.57 1778 2013 2061 2050 2056 2086 2057 2066 2001 1925 1801 1716 1590 1510
VeriSign Trust Network 5.58 984 1044 1051 1029 1051 1058 1075 1096 1101 1104 1100 1108 1114 1112
Equifax 3.84 3630 964 932 915 893 882 866 890 866 837 800 798 780 766
AddTrust AB 3.54 0 0 0 0 0 0 45 104 223 316 447 559 701 706
VeriSign, Inc. 2.26 0 1 3 6 7 12 14 16 28 30 79 212 343 451
The USERTRUST Network 1.35 339 864 831 739 698 584 534 511 404 330 226 211 210 269
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.24 0 241 249 251 253 261 253 257 255 252 254 248 248 247
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.93 40 120 126 136 141 139 148 158 158 167 171 173 183 186
DigiCert Inc. 0.81 0 77 77 91 95 107 116 122 123 128 138 145 161 161
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.59 0 0 2 10 14 26 31 39 57 65 78 98 111 118
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.54 7 105 104 102 96 97 99 98 101 102 110 112 111 108
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.39 55 59 58 54 56 59 63 67 70 70 74 66 74 78
StartCom Ltd. 0.33 0 0 8 16 14 19 31 42 50 52 54 59 67 66
ChainedSSL 0.12 0 9 21 23 24 28 31 32 34 35 35 34 31 24
Digi-Sign Limited 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 11
GlobalSign Inc 0.04 0 0 2 5 6 7 7 8 7 7 8 8 8 8
Akamai 0.03 9 5 5 4 4 4 5 5 6 5 5 6 6 6
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.03 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 4 4 4 4 5 5
FreeSSL 0.03 167 85 63 51 36 34 28 24 20 15 7 7 5 5
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 5 4 4 4 4 4
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.02 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 4
Nestle 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
QuoVadis Limited 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Syncrude Canada Ltd 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Disney Enterprises 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 2
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.01 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
Digital Signature Trust Co. 0.01 9 9 9 8 7 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
GTE Corporation 0.00 8 6 6 6 5 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0
unknown 0.00 0 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

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