Certification Services in Germany (DE)

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 Germany (DE)

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
GeoTrust 48.95 1062 5932 6532 7126 7351 7798 8156 8599 8983 11808 12202 12482 12779 12971
VeriSign 33.41 7183 7657 7756 7714 7775 7847 8029 8313 8402 8416 8584 8622 8736 8853
Comodo 11.68 1671 2443 2513 2579 2581 2647 2723 2813 2921 2971 3021 3089 3128 3095
Deutsche Telekom AG 3.58 866 1036 1043 1071 1068 1090 1124 1161 1166 1192 1181 1147 1049 950
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 1.24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 107 220 328
Other 1.14 1869 2305 2366 2363 2440 2504 2578 2680 2718 263 281 275 291 303

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. 37.49 143 5158 5794 6430 6712 7208 7596 8060 8481 8857 9252 9520 9834 9936
Thawte Consulting cc 18.50 5085 4806 4805 4772 4753 4763 4804 4914 4931 4908 4887 4887 4891 4902
VeriSign Trust Network 10.41 1572 1861 1926 1925 2014 2070 2184 2323 2359 2398 2564 2574 2661 2758
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 9.79 1745 2124 2161 2173 2240 2276 2343 2434 2458 2494 2537 2572 2584 2595
Comodo Limited 8.82 1671 2434 2503 2568 2571 2635 2684 2705 2684 2603 2531 2476 2393 2336
Deutsche Telekom AG 3.58 866 1036 1043 1071 1068 1090 1124 1161 1166 1192 1181 1147 1049 950
AddTrust AB 2.72 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 92 222 352 467 587 702 722
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 2.09 0 471 498 500 504 496 509 529 537 538 549 555 554 555
RSA Data Security, Inc. 2.05 526 519 524 503 484 494 503 513 520 514 518 532 542 544
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 1.24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 107 220 328
The USERTRUST Network 0.95 136 518 490 456 412 367 339 315 286 249 207 187 167 252
Equifax 0.65 704 214 205 203 195 192 192 194 187 179 178 180 174 171
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.44 53 83 88 88 88 102 99 104 109 109 113 110 110 116
VeriSign, Inc. 0.35 0 0 3 14 20 24 29 34 55 58 66 74 88 94
StartCom Ltd. 0.25 0 0 26 26 27 34 39 43 48 54 59 51 63 65
DigiCert Inc. 0.14 0 9 10 11 10 12 14 16 15 16 23 26 33 37
Entrust.net 0.09 11 13 17 20 23 22 21 21 22 20 20 21 22 23
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.08 4 18 18 17 17 18 18 18 18 18 19 21 21 21
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.06 21 19 19 16 16 17 19 19 21 20 23 22 16 16
ChainedSSL 0.06 0 7 11 17 19 21 22 24 24 25 26 22 19 16
Root CA 0.05 0 7 7 10 11 12 15 15 15 14 14 13 13 14
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.04 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 6 6 5 6 9 11 11
Akamai 0.03 0 3 3 5 7 7 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7
CAcert Inc. 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 7
Accenture 0.02 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Cable & Wireless plc 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
GlobalSign Inc 0.02 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 4 4
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 4 4 4
Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3
MasterCard International 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
United SSL Deutschland GmbH 0.00 30 31 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sun Microsystems Inc 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1
FreeSSL 0.00 79 35 32 20 13 10 7 6 5 4 2 1 1 1
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
SCANDTRUST AB 0.00 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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