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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign 71.43 797 806 824 810 811 820 829 849 852 851 844 847 857 855
GeoTrust 14.87 96 128 133 140 144 150 151 159 162 163 164 168 175 178
Comodo 8.52 53 80 83 82 81 84 89 85 85 93 99 102 102 102
Other 2.42 27 36 35 35 34 31 30 35 32 27 24 22 25 29
GlobalSign 1.67 1 3 3 4 4 5 4 7 9 9 11 17 20 20
Network Solutions L.L.C. 1.09 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 8 8 10 10 12 13

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
VeriSign Trust Network 32.58 342 365 375 370 372 372 374 388 387 390 382 385 391 390
RSA Data Security, Inc. 17.96 198 200 201 197 196 198 202 208 203 204 207 211 211 215
Thawte Consulting cc 16.04 257 201 202 194 190 196 198 197 204 201 199 195 197 192
Equifax Secure Inc. 12.78 14 65 74 91 97 109 114 124 125 132 141 143 155 153
Comodo Limited 6.35 53 72 76 74 74 76 78 74 72 77 82 80 76 76
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 4.59 0 40 46 49 51 52 53 54 55 53 53 53 55 55
GlobalSign nv-sa 1.59 1 3 3 4 4 5 4 7 9 9 11 17 19 19
Equifax 1.25 56 22 21 17 16 17 17 16 18 17 16 15 14 15
AddTrust AB 1.17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 6 10 14 14
Network Solutions L.L.C. 1.09 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 8 8 10 10 12 13
DigiCert Inc. 1.00 0 8 7 8 7 8 11 10 10 11 11 12 12 12
The USERTRUST Network 0.84 8 35 33 29 29 24 20 19 19 14 7 10 6 10
StartCom Ltd. 0.67 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 3 4 3 5 5 6 8
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.50 1 1 2 2 1 1 0 3 3 4 4 4 5 6
Akamai 0.33 0 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4
Entrust.net 0.25 8 9 11 9 10 9 8 8 7 6 5 3 3 3
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.25 1 7 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.25 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3
VeriSign, Inc. 0.25 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
GlobalSign Inc 0.08 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Disney Enterprises 0.08 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.08 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
CHIEF Telecom Inc. 0.00 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DIGI-SIGN CERTIFICATION SERVICES LIMITED 0.00 14 11 10 10 9 9 9 10 8 4 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 18 6 5 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.00 1 3 3 3 2 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
unknown 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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