Certification Services in Denmark (DK)

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 Denmark (DK)

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 56.70 1069 1094 2025 2049 2094 2115 2145 2231 2302 2334 2355 2407 2468 2507 2556
Other 29.48 650 1472 1215 1227 1250 1245 1281 1304 1337 1184 1225 1233 1279 1305 1329
Comodo 13.44 145 212 241 246 261 264 278 297 500 511 536 541 551 568 606
Entrust.net 0.18 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 7 8 8
Network Solutions 0.16 0 1 4 3 3 3 5 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
AmbironTrustWave 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 3 2 2

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. 17.01 102 387 635 640 656 659 673 680 694 703 704 706 724 744 767
Equifax 15.44 56 90 274 301 336 366 385 441 491 527 549 595 634 670 696
Cybertrust 14.66 0 0 9 20 35 40 112 146 254 410 536 563 613 638 661
TDC 11.14 407 427 507 507 506 503 514 520 515 513 515 505 506 507 502
VeriSign Trust Network 10.96 541 540 546 533 536 533 531 536 535 530 526 514 508 492 494
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 9.63 0 0 84 93 114 125 139 163 301 319 338 354 365 391 434
Thawte Consulting cc 6.34 276 296 301 300 298 292 288 293 292 284 284 286 286 285 286
VeriSign, Inc. 4.57 0 34 63 68 70 79 91 107 117 126 133 157 175 199 206
Comodo Limited 1.57 143 187 104 101 95 88 87 81 113 104 106 92 89 79 71
RSA Data Security, Inc. 1.55 243 193 155 156 153 146 136 135 132 127 122 108 101 77 70
StartCom Ltd. 1.26 0 41 54 53 60 57 52 49 51 42 46 49 50 54 57
Comodo CA Limited 1.26 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 6 23 27 30 35 42 50 57
DigiCert Inc 1.11 2 6 9 10 10 11 12 16 24 27 27 30 35 40 50
AddTrust AB 0.93 0 19 53 52 51 46 45 46 62 60 61 58 53 46 42
UNI-C 0.53 0 435 600 600 602 597 553 536 458 158 66 53 40 30 24
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.47 3 5 14 15 15 16 18 18 19 18 19 19 22 23 21
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 0.47 9 31 25 27 26 25 24 22 21 21 21 21 21 21 21
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.27 12 19 17 17 17 17 17 16 15 15 15 13 12 11 12
Entrust.net 0.18 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 7 8 8
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.16 0 1 4 3 3 3 5 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
The USERTRUST Network 0.13 61 54 20 18 13 8 10 11 13 9 8 10 9 9 6
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.11 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 5
GeoTrust Inc 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3
ChainedSSL 0.04 0 7 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.04 1 1 4 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
AddTrust Sweden AB 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalSign 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
FreeSSL 0.00 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SecureTrust Corporation 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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