Certification Services in France (FR)

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 France (FR)

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 71.72 3155 3788 4943 5013 5097 5193 5358 5601 5723 5806 5894 6007 6122 6239 6342
Comodo 18.70 499 786 947 975 998 1015 1051 1077 1442 1478 1537 1583 1627 1645 1654
Other 8.84 262 484 274 296 346 384 416 488 512 540 562 609 651 729 782
Network Solutions 0.33 0 3 15 16 15 16 18 19 22 22 23 25 26 29 29
Entrust.net 0.24 13 19 17 19 15 16 18 18 21 21 22 22 21 20 21
AmbironTrustWave 0.17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 14 14 13 14 15

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 22.64 1549 1626 1732 1759 1769 1771 1801 1866 1887 1905 1904 1916 1962 1984 2002
VeriSign, Inc. 12.64 0 140 248 257 287 332 398 504 605 684 733 823 953 1037 1118
VeriSign Trust Network 10.68 526 736 915 913 926 947 948 954 952 958 964 979 940 938 944
Equifax Secure Inc. 9.44 56 310 560 571 570 595 634 676 698 712 732 757 784 816 835
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 8.61 0 0 276 317 365 402 461 495 630 649 680 703 724 742 761
TBS INTERNET 6.89 0 0 269 310 324 341 354 357 496 523 547 569 591 601 609
RSA Data Security, Inc. 5.79 992 964 965 962 948 916 877 849 794 738 719 664 605 558 512
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 5.27 88 322 381 392 407 412 424 439 444 447 458 460 460 459 466
Cybertrust 5.10 0 0 128 143 177 211 232 277 305 323 330 360 385 420 451
Equifax 4.95 68 33 132 150 178 207 263 299 330 351 372 394 403 427 438
Comodo Limited 1.92 498 733 297 253 228 204 185 177 256 242 239 225 211 191 170
StartCom Ltd. 0.95 0 16 31 33 34 34 40 52 51 56 64 74 79 80 84
Comodo CA Limited 0.79 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 6 11 22 33 49 62 70
DigiCert Inc 0.59 1 17 24 25 26 27 27 29 39 39 38 43 50 52 52
OVH SAS 0.50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 32 44
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.45 27 39 39 39 42 43 41 39 38 38 40 39 38 38 40
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.43 23 26 23 24 23 25 28 32 33 32 34 32 33 37 38
CERTINOMIS 0.36 0 0 3 5 9 9 10 10 17 23 23 27 31 32 32
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.33 0 3 15 16 15 16 18 19 22 22 23 25 26 29 29
AddTrust AB 0.32 0 33 90 82 68 53 35 34 38 37 37 37 37 31 28
Entrust.net 0.24 13 19 17 19 15 16 18 18 21 21 22 22 21 20 21
The USERTRUST Network 0.18 72 30 6 5 7 6 5 7 7 5 6 7 8 10 16
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.16 0 0 1 2 2 4 7 16 14 13 13 13 12 13 14
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.09 3 8 11 12 13 13 13 12 12 12 11 10 8 8 8
SecureTrust Corporation 0.08 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 2 3 4 5 6 7
CAcert Inc. 0.08 0 0 0 0 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7
thawte, Inc. 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 6 6
Accenture 0.06 1 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.06 0 1 5 4 5 5 5 4 7 7 6 6 6 6 5
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 4
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.05 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.03 0 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 3 3
GlobalTrust 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 3
Unizeto Sp. z o.o. 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
GlobalSign 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2
Nestle 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.01 0 8 3 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 0 1 1 1 1
Digi-Sign Limited 0.01 0 1 6 5 5 5 5 4 5 5 3 3 3 2 1
GlobalSign Inc 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.01 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Postecom S.p.A. 0.01 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1
Cybertrust Inc 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
CERTPLUS SA 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Akamai 0.00 3 5 7 6 6 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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