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
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 63.34 2108 2251 3297 3364 3421 3461 3514 3587 3676 3698 3754 3793 3835 3904 3948
Comodo 19.70 326 533 720 741 751 764 795 823 1128 1133 1182 1196 1207 1212 1228
Other 15.90 557 858 509 524 549 598 635 683 773 812 849 890 940 958 991
Network Solutions 0.53 0 2 5 4 4 6 9 10 16 19 23 26 28 31 33
Entrust.net 0.34 10 8 12 11 12 16 17 17 17 16 17 18 18 18 21
Go Daddy 0.19 0 2 5 5 6 7 9 11 11 11 11 11 13 14 12

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
Thawte Consulting cc 22.27 1103 1158 1240 1284 1294 1311 1315 1314 1344 1351 1353 1371 1379 1383 1388
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 15.66 0 0 337 388 426 492 547 588 813 830 886 916 937 953 976
Equifax Secure Inc. 15.31 133 417 664 662 685 707 734 770 804 817 840 861 886 931 954
VeriSign Trust Network 10.27 585 613 627 633 638 635 637 650 640 628 642 634 630 635 640
VeriSign, Inc. 5.41 1 40 87 98 109 121 138 169 200 222 237 272 288 317 337
Cybertrust 5.25 0 0 118 130 147 172 189 218 234 253 265 285 304 314 327
Equifax 3.05 130 88 108 121 128 132 140 153 165 167 171 178 182 192 190
Nestle 3.00 0 41 132 123 117 123 125 130 147 153 160 166 178 187 187
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 2.98 104 142 163 168 173 175 182 187 191 186 184 182 181 183 186
GlobalSign nv-sa 2.23 16 20 98 102 114 113 119 123 125 128 130 132 137 136 139
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 2.23 81 146 136 136 139 139 141 141 139 138 145 140 137 135 139
DigiCert Inc 2.07 9 28 56 58 61 62 60 64 99 103 106 110 114 117 129
RSA Data Security, Inc. 1.70 338 294 245 245 239 223 210 190 183 177 164 143 140 117 106
AddTrust AB 1.62 0 55 178 155 134 99 85 82 121 121 122 116 109 102 101
Comodo Limited 1.41 317 449 192 184 176 159 148 134 164 150 138 125 113 101 88
StartCom Ltd. 0.88 0 9 34 37 35 45 54 55 56 53 56 56 64 57 55
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt 0.69 0 0 4 5 5 6 8 9 22 24 32 38 37 41 43
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.53 0 2 5 4 4 6 9 10 16 19 23 26 28 31 33
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.48 0 0 16 22 23 25 24 25 32 34 35 34 33 30 30
Comodo CA Limited 0.47 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 10 13 15 23 28 29
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.40 20 20 19 19 18 18 20 20 18 22 22 22 24 26 25
TBS INTERNET 0.35 0 0 10 11 12 12 12 14 18 18 18 19 19 19 22
Entrust.net 0.34 10 8 12 11 12 16 17 17 17 16 17 18 18 18 21
QuoVadis Trustlink Schweiz AG 0.27 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 6 10 9 17
Migros 0.13 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 5 5 8 8 8 8
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.13 0 2 5 5 6 7 8 9 9 9 9 9 10 9 8
CAcert Inc. 0.10 0 0 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 6 6
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.08 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 5 5 5 5 5 5
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 2 4
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.06 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 4
The USERTRUST Network 0.06 127 89 23 14 13 15 14 11 8 10 14 8 8 7 4
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 5 4
thawte, Inc. 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.05 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 3 3
QuoVadis Limited 0.05 0 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 3
SecureTrust Corporation 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3
Cybertrust Inc 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Swisscom 0.03 0 0 7 7 9 10 10 11 10 8 7 7 6 4 2
GlobalSign Inc 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.03 2 2 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2
IPS Seguridad CA 0.03 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2
Accenture 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.02 0 7 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalTrust 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Sun Microsystems Inc 0.02 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalSign 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Root CA 0.00 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akamai 0.00 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Digi-Sign Limited 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.00 13 15 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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