Certification Services in Italy (IT)

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 Italy (IT)

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 69.04 1561 1747 1776 1765 1792 1806 1854 1912 1933 1958 1969 1972 2007 2009
GeoTrust 14.05 182 278 287 296 292 311 324 341 354 370 379 393 407 409
Comodo 6.84 109 151 162 165 167 172 181 191 195 197 198 199 205 199
Other 5.12 88 101 109 108 110 110 113 122 123 126 127 132 139 149
Postecom s.p.a. 2.82 32 49 52 53 59 59 63 69 72 79 83 87 83 82
I.T. Telecom 2.13 0 16 26 40 49 51 56 61 66 65 57 62 62 62

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 35.74 775 913 933 931 957 957 985 1018 1037 1035 1034 1029 1040 1040
Thawte Consulting cc 16.94 465 436 436 433 431 443 451 464 461 472 475 471 489 493
RSA Data Security, Inc. 12.51 321 330 337 329 328 325 332 339 335 346 353 358 364 364
Equifax Secure Inc. 11.51 23 161 179 199 198 221 234 253 270 285 301 318 335 335
Comodo Limited 3.88 109 150 160 162 164 169 166 166 159 148 141 127 119 113
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 3.57 0 68 70 70 74 77 82 87 96 101 101 106 106 104
Postecom s.p.a. 2.82 32 49 52 53 59 59 63 69 72 79 83 87 83 82
AddTrust AB 2.75 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 21 32 45 52 66 80 80
I.T. Telecom 2.13 0 16 26 40 49 51 56 61 66 65 57 62 62 62
Entrust.net 1.79 19 23 34 38 41 45 44 46 47 48 48 50 50 52
Equifax 1.55 131 55 53 51 52 50 52 50 48 47 44 47 47 45
The USERTRUST Network 0.82 18 58 51 42 40 38 36 36 34 33 30 23 20 24
StartCom Ltd. 0.79 0 0 5 5 6 8 12 16 18 19 20 20 25 23
Actalis S.p.A. 0.69 12 13 12 13 12 12 12 13 14 15 15 16 16 20
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.52 6 8 8 11 11 8 9 11 12 13 13 12 13 15
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.48 22 12 13 13 13 14 15 17 16 15 15 15 14 14
VeriSign, Inc. 0.27 0 0 0 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 6 8 8 8
GlobalTrust 0.24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.24 1 8 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 6 7 6 6 7
DigiCert Inc. 0.21 0 1 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 6
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.14 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 4
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.14 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.07 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
GlobalSign Inc 0.07 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
ChainedSSL 0.03 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Akamai 0.03 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella PA 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 1
I.T. Telecom S.p.A. 0.00 21 31 24 16 14 9 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Digi-Sign Limited 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 10 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0

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