Certification Services in Hong Kong (HK)

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 Hong Kong (HK)

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 70.26 788 852 1044 1057 1071 1068 1087 1107 1114 1126 1130 1141 1141 1154 1193
Comodo 13.78 68 85 104 109 114 120 123 127 193 203 212 225 233 237 234
Other 13.13 143 196 186 188 188 195 202 213 220 221 222 227 228 230 223
Network Solutions 1.94 0 8 13 13 14 14 17 19 21 25 27 30 32 33 33
AmbironTrustWave 0.53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 8 7 7 9 9
Entrust.net 0.35 9 7 5 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6

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
VeriSign Trust Network 24.85 333 387 370 379 385 387 389 407 407 413 404 411 406 409 422
Thawte Consulting cc 13.19 221 204 209 208 212 211 210 218 215 218 220 218 223 221 224
Equifax Secure Inc. 9.84 44 125 145 152 150 144 145 141 148 145 154 157 158 161 167
RSA Data Security, Inc. 8.89 207 203 224 224 226 218 215 213 211 211 210 200 178 162 151
Hongkong Post 6.48 0 0 105 104 103 105 107 114 116 113 111 111 108 113 110
VeriSign, Inc. 6.01 0 3 6 9 9 13 20 21 25 29 32 44 67 84 102
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 5.48 0 0 33 38 43 47 52 55 77 81 82 87 93 94 93
Equifax 4.42 34 18 27 29 35 41 51 53 54 55 59 62 64 70 75
Comodo Limited 4.18 66 72 57 57 57 59 58 59 102 104 103 97 87 83 71
Comodo CA Limited 3.24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 23 35 44 55
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 2.83 27 55 55 54 53 52 51 50 51 50 48 47 44 46 48
GlobalSign nv-sa 2.47 2 9 31 34 33 36 37 38 39 38 38 40 42 42 42
DigiCert Inc 2.12 2 10 16 17 18 18 19 22 33 35 38 41 41 38 36
Network Solutions L.L.C. 1.94 0 8 13 13 14 14 17 19 21 25 27 30 32 33 33
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.71 0 0 1 1 2 4 6 9 11 11 11 11 12 12 12
AddTrust AB 0.65 0 3 14 14 13 13 12 12 13 14 14 14 14 12 11
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.53 2 3 7 7 7 7 8 9 9 9 9 10 11 10 9
Entrust.net 0.35 9 7 5 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6
StartCom Ltd. 0.29 0 4 7 6 6 6 6 3 4 5 6 6 6 6 5
SecureTrust Corporation 0.29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 5 5
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.24 5 3 5 5 5 6 7 7 7 7 6 4 4 4 4
The USERTRUST Network 0.24 31 19 8 2 1 2 6 4 3 5 3 2 1 1 4
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 4 4
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2
GlobalSign Inc 0.12 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2
Cybertrust Inc 0.12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalTrust 0.06 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Cisco Systems 0.06 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
CHIEF Telecom Inc. 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akamai 0.00 2 3 5 5 4 4 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DIGI-SIGN CERTIFICATION SERVICES LIMITED 0.00 12 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.00 0 2 5 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 1 0 0 0 0
Disney Enterprises 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.00 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
unknown 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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