Certification Services in Finland (FI)

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 Finland (FI)

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 73.32 1035 1201 1711 1749 1781 1832 1850 1927 1951 1971 1986 2018 2056 2109 2160
Comodo 12.76 109 184 202 210 223 228 233 238 321 323 340 358 363 370 376
Other 12.73 144 332 193 209 226 244 257 276 297 311 319 335 344 359 375
Network Solutions 0.95 0 0 7 8 10 12 12 14 22 22 23 26 26 27 28
Go Daddy 0.14 0 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 4 4 4 4
Entrust.net 0.10 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3

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 28.45 547 598 664 676 694 706 719 750 761 775 780 794 803 823 838
Equifax Secure Inc. 18.02 47 188 355 375 390 410 423 446 459 460 462 476 495 513 531
VeriSign Trust Network 12.76 248 314 344 349 350 359 357 361 354 359 366 360 362 364 376
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 9.30 0 0 56 70 88 104 117 135 193 199 213 240 245 262 274
Sonera 8.96 0 70 140 153 168 185 192 201 217 224 229 238 245 252 264
VeriSign, Inc. 6.38 0 13 52 58 59 68 81 99 110 113 113 135 149 174 188
RSA Data Security, Inc. 3.90 222 224 206 203 201 196 180 173 167 163 164 147 136 127 115
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.83 18 52 57 57 56 57 53 55 55 54 54 54 54 54 54
Comodo Limited 1.66 107 155 83 80 81 76 71 60 75 70 70 59 58 52 49
Equifax 1.66 40 18 23 24 25 29 29 34 37 38 38 44 48 46 49
DigiCert Inc 1.66 2 7 14 14 17 17 19 24 32 34 34 41 43 46 49
AddTrust AB 1.19 0 22 62 59 53 47 44 41 50 50 50 49 46 41 35
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.95 0 0 7 8 10 12 12 14 22 22 23 26 26 27 28
StartCom Ltd. 0.81 0 1 6 8 8 9 13 14 15 18 19 18 19 23 24
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.64 6 8 16 18 16 17 17 19 18 20 21 21 21 20 19
Comodo CA Limited 0.51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 6 9 13 13 15
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.24 4 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
TDC 0.20 0 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 5 4 5 6
thawte, Inc. 0.14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 4
Entrust.net 0.10 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.10 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.07 0 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
SecureTrust Corporation 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
Accenture 0.03 1 1 2 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 1
ChainedSSL 0.03 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
AddTrust Sweden AB 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.03 0 0 3 3 3 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The USERTRUST Network 0.03 40 31 6 3 2 3 4 4 3 4 4 2 3 2 1
Akamai 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SCANDTRUST AB 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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