Certification Services in Ireland (IE)

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 Ireland (IE)

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 32.88 541 537 543 551 541 537 529 540 549 550 545 543 537 535
GeoTrust 30.98 221 468 484 485 499 491 491 519 525 516 503 497 507 504
Comodo 30.06 347 377 380 378 381 382 410 428 425 438 451 467 487 489
Digi-Sign Limited 2.52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 17 27 32 39 41
Other 1.97 69 29 30 28 27 26 24 30 29 30 27 30 30 32
GlobalSign 1.60 1 12 13 14 14 18 18 23 28 29 29 29 26 26

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
Equifax Secure Inc. 26.55 27 266 291 311 338 357 367 402 419 423 433 430 434 432
Comodo Limited 21.57 347 374 375 373 375 376 402 415 396 388 372 358 355 351
Thawte Consulting cc 17.21 335 291 290 300 295 293 288 290 290 292 288 285 281 280
VeriSign Trust Network 8.11 105 108 111 118 119 122 125 130 136 133 135 138 135 132
AddTrust AB 7.62 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 21 40 68 96 119 124
RSA Data Security, Inc. 3.20 101 99 101 87 75 70 61 59 60 61 56 53 51 52
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 2.77 0 39 41 41 44 42 42 45 45 45 44 44 45 45
Digi-Sign Limited 2.52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 17 27 32 39 41
The USERTRUST Network 2.40 43 168 159 143 131 109 97 88 76 61 35 33 33 39
Equifax 1.97 142 31 33 30 30 25 26 28 29 31 34 33 39 32
VeriSign, Inc. 1.60 0 0 0 5 8 10 13 16 18 19 22 23 25 26
GlobalSign Inc 0.86 0 7 7 7 8 11 11 13 16 17 17 16 14 14
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.74 1 5 6 7 6 7 7 10 12 12 12 13 12 12
Entrust.net 0.68 10 10 10 10 9 10 10 13 13 12 11 11 11 11
DigiCert Inc. 0.61 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 6 7 9 9 10
StartCom Ltd. 0.37 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 4 3 4 6 6
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.25 0 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.25 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4 4 4 4
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.12 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.12 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 2 2
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.06 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ChainedSSL 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
AddTrust Sweden AB 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft. 0.06 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.00 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PKI Partner AB 0.00 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 24 12 12 12 11 8 5 5 2 1 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 9 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SCANDTRUST AB 0.00 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
beTRUSTed 0.00 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
unknown 0.00 0 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

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