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
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 53.73 522 549 1107 1115 1111 1127 1140 1176 1217 1235 1240 1275 1281 1304 1325
Comodo 41.00 348 440 635 655 657 658 689 717 869 898 939 946 969 981 1011
Other 4.10 387 565 66 69 73 71 74 76 83 89 84 90 94 95 101
Network Solutions 0.45 0 1 6 6 6 6 7 7 9 9 10 9 11 11 11
Go Daddy 0.36 0 2 5 5 5 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 9
Entrust.net 0.36 9 13 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 10 10 10 9 9 9

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
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 33.09 0 0 268 313 358 401 467 522 631 665 703 724 757 778 816
Equifax Secure Inc. 20.48 126 419 468 477 459 449 454 455 478 477 482 490 496 500 505
Thawte Consulting cc 14.72 300 290 294 287 289 295 297 321 329 341 341 353 352 353 363
VeriSign Trust Network 6.57 104 136 138 144 145 147 145 149 150 153 155 158 162 164 162
Equifax 5.84 74 29 71 75 87 105 110 121 129 131 129 137 141 147 144
Digi-Sign Limited 4.50 0 14 73 77 74 72 75 88 111 115 117 117 116 113 111
VeriSign, Inc. 3.69 0 18 34 39 43 47 49 52 56 60 63 68 66 77 91
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.58 16 45 45 43 43 42 43 41 41 40 40 41 38 38 39
DigiCert Inc 1.42 0 4 12 13 12 12 11 12 18 23 22 24 28 30 35
AddTrust AB 1.34 0 21 107 95 79 60 42 35 41 41 43 42 41 39 33
Comodo Limited 1.22 348 396 182 164 140 119 98 67 78 68 63 49 37 31 30
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.65 1 12 17 17 17 19 19 19 20 20 19 19 15 15 16
RSA Data Security, Inc. 0.57 102 60 49 45 42 37 37 34 32 27 25 24 22 18 14
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.49 1 0 3 6 9 8 12 12 12 12 10 11 11 11 12
Comodo CA Limited 0.49 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 7 8 11 10 12
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.45 0 1 6 6 6 6 7 7 9 9 10 9 11 11 11
Entrust.net 0.36 9 13 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 10 10 10 9 9 9
GlobalSign 0.28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 7
GlobalSign Inc 0.24 0 16 18 18 18 17 15 15 15 13 11 8 7 6 6
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.24 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 6
SecureTrust Corporation 0.24 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 5 6 8 6
StartCom Ltd. 0.20 0 3 5 4 5 4 6 5 4 5 5 6 6 5 5
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.20 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 5 6 5
Cybertrust Inc 0.20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 5 5 5
The USERTRUST Network 0.16 147 76 7 4 2 3 3 2 1 5 2 1 1 4 4
thawte, Inc. 0.12 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 3
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.12 0 2 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 3 3
AddTrust Sweden AB 0.08 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 1 1 2 2
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.08 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.08 2 3 5 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 2
CAcert Inc. 0.08 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2
Root CA 0.04 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1
RSA Security Inc. 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Postecom S.p.A. 0.04 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.04 0 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft. 0.04 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 19 2 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
SCANDTRUST AB 0.00 5 0 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
beTRUSTed 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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