Certification Services in Switzerland (CH)

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 Switzerland (CH)

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 57.10 2022 2168 2190 2164 2186 2175 2189 2249 2251 2252 2236 2231 2247 2248
GeoTrust 22.38 301 497 515 529 547 563 584 597 601 779 806 835 843 881
Comodo 14.53 272 415 439 467 490 503 516 522 533 553 558 580 596 572
Nestle 2.67 0 0 0 4 11 22 30 35 41 51 78 87 93 105
Other 2.34 126 168 170 166 171 179 182 200 208 68 75 78 84 92
GlobalSign 0.99 17 17 16 15 15 14 15 19 20 21 23 30 35 39

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
Thawte Consulting cc 29.69 1158 1097 1095 1090 1108 1104 1115 1147 1158 1154 1164 1169 1171 1169
VeriSign Trust Network 15.42 530 600 618 606 613 599 601 617 613 619 606 596 600 607
Equifax Secure Inc. 14.22 27 247 270 298 319 357 386 406 417 460 498 529 552 560
Comodo Limited 8.79 272 394 417 444 469 479 479 471 449 443 421 399 377 346
RSA Data Security, Inc. 7.01 333 332 327 319 314 311 305 307 294 289 279 275 281 276
AddTrust AB 4.83 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 23 55 79 106 151 186 190
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 3.94 84 118 121 118 123 125 127 139 142 145 148 148 148 155
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 3.56 0 138 145 137 134 140 142 145 146 148 135 138 139 140
Nestle 2.67 0 0 0 4 11 22 30 35 41 51 78 87 93 105
Equifax 2.08 216 95 95 87 89 89 86 87 88 87 84 82 82 82
The USERTRUST Network 2.06 42 144 138 134 132 111 105 97 89 80 70 70 58 81
VeriSign, Inc. 1.42 1 1 5 12 17 21 26 33 40 42 52 53 56 56
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.97 17 17 16 15 15 14 15 19 20 21 23 30 34 38
DigiCert Inc. 0.89 0 21 22 23 21 24 26 27 28 30 30 29 32 35
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.46 17 21 20 18 18 18 17 19 20 19 20 20 19 18
StartCom Ltd. 0.46 0 0 2 2 3 6 7 8 9 11 15 16 17 18
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.36 15 13 13 14 13 14 14 14 15 15 15 15 14 14
Entrust.net 0.25 9 9 7 7 7 7 6 7 8 8 8 8 9 10
Cybertrust 0.15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6
Akamai 0.13 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 5
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.10 0 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 4 4
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 4 4
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.08 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3
TBS INTERNET 0.08 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
ChainedSSL 0.08 0 4 6 6 5 6 7 7 7 7 6 6 3 3
QuoVadis Limited 0.08 0 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Root CA 0.03 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Sun Microsystems Inc 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
GlobalSign Inc 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
FreeSSL 0.00 16 7 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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