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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign 72.62 3162 3447 3533 3533 3540 3588 3616 3725 3788 3818 3839 3892 3945 3938
Comodo 13.61 362 643 671 699 710 719 749 779 784 800 780 784 757 738
GeoTrust 9.83 152 233 258 281 296 315 334 353 382 400 429 468 504 533
Other 1.86 57 41 53 57 57 65 70 76 86 82 83 89 98 101
TBS INTERNET 1.35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 30 58 73
GlobalSign 0.74 23 36 39 37 39 40 37 40 40 36 37 42 41 40

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
Thawte Consulting cc 30.48 1610 1557 1593 1557 1560 1584 1590 1611 1626 1640 1634 1654 1666 1653
RSA Data Security, Inc. 17.24 1036 1037 1029 1007 985 969 947 969 964 952 933 936 945 935
VeriSign Trust Network 14.70 516 607 628 654 657 661 678 724 736 751 763 781 794 797
Comodo Limited 11.05 362 635 663 687 697 706 723 741 733 727 685 665 622 599
Equifax Secure Inc. 8.43 15 127 151 185 200 226 243 271 310 331 365 407 441 457
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 6.68 0 246 268 282 286 295 306 319 322 326 342 342 353 362
VeriSign, Inc. 3.52 0 0 15 33 52 79 95 102 140 149 167 179 187 191
AddTrust AB 2.16 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 21 33 53 73 97 113 117
TBS INTERNET 1.35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 30 58 73
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.72 23 35 38 36 38 39 36 39 39 35 36 41 40 39
The USERTRUST Network 0.70 26 68 66 56 53 45 47 39 30 26 22 18 21 38
Equifax 0.55 100 31 32 29 30 34 34 33 33 32 32 33 32 30
StartCom Ltd. 0.44 0 0 7 8 8 8 10 13 16 17 17 17 21 24
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.42 31 17 18 19 17 18 20 23 26 25 24 26 26 23
Entrust.net 0.35 14 13 14 16 18 20 16 17 19 17 17 19 19 19
DigiCert Inc. 0.31 0 8 8 11 12 12 15 16 17 17 17 17 17 17
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.15 3 4 4 5 4 6 7 7 8 8 8 8 9 8
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.13 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 3 5 5 8 7
Akamai 0.13 4 3 4 4 4 5 6 5 5 5 5 6 7 7
ChainedSSL 0.11 0 2 3 5 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 6
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.09 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 5 5 5
Cybertrust 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Accenture 0.06 2 2 3 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3
Digi-Sign Limited 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2
GlobalSign Inc 0.02 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
FreeSSL 0.02 11 5 6 6 6 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.02 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.02 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1
GTE Corporation 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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