Certification Services in India (IN)

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 India (IN)

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 76.67 285 406 688 699 709 726 741 760 777 800 804 837 849 856 874
Comodo 10.96 27 65 91 92 91 95 108 107 121 124 126 126 129 125 125
Entrust.net 6.75 63 74 62 59 61 62 65 63 68 68 69 72 76 76 77
Other 3.25 98 155 25 25 23 22 27 30 33 35 37 38 38 37 37
Network Solutions 1.67 0 1 11 12 11 11 13 12 12 11 17 19 19 19 19
AmbironTrustWave 0.70 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 8 8 8 7 8 8

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 40.18 184 269 345 355 359 374 382 392 400 412 418 440 443 444 458
Equifax Secure Inc. 15.70 28 126 168 163 161 159 162 165 161 164 163 170 177 177 179
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 8.77 0 0 50 57 61 69 87 87 97 100 101 104 102 102 100
RSA Data Security, Inc. 7.46 81 98 109 108 109 108 112 111 117 119 114 102 97 92 85
Entrust.net 6.67 63 74 62 59 61 62 65 63 67 67 68 71 75 75 76
Thawte Consulting cc 5.61 15 31 36 41 44 47 45 49 52 56 57 59 62 65 64
Equifax 3.95 22 6 19 20 24 26 26 31 35 38 37 42 41 41 45
VeriSign, Inc. 2.98 0 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 7 15 21 29 34
Network Solutions L.L.C. 1.67 0 1 11 12 11 11 13 12 12 11 17 19 19 19 19
DigiCert Inc 1.58 0 7 9 9 9 9 9 11 16 17 18 19 18 18 18
AddTrust AB 1.14 0 8 25 22 20 18 16 15 15 15 14 13 15 11 13
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 0.70 5 7 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 7 8 8 8 8 8
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.61 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 5 6 6 7 7 7
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.53 1 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 6 6 6
SecureTrust Corporation 0.53 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 5 5 6 6 6 6
Accenture 0.44 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 5
StartCom Ltd. 0.26 0 6 5 4 2 2 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 3 3 3 3
Comodo CA Limited 0.18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 2
Comodo Limited 0.18 27 50 14 12 9 7 4 3 4 3 3 2 3 2 2
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.18 0 2 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 2 2
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.18 0 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.09 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The USERTRUST Network 0.09 41 9 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Entrust, Inc. 0.09 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.00 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 4 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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