Certification Services in Japan (JP)

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 Japan (JP)

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 73.11 16326 20385 34464 35008 35459 35292 36087 37515 38265 38456 38420 38029 37708 37509 37439
Other 15.76 4308 9459 4720 5082 5447 5007 5534 6086 6351 6526 6777 7049 7491 7786 8071
Comodo 11.05 1194 2923 4084 4116 4117 4154 4230 4343 5437 5490 5586 5623 5646 5681 5661
Network Solutions 0.05 0 15 25 24 21 23 22 22 21 22 24 27 26 24 25
AmbironTrustWave 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 9 8 7 7 8 8
Entrust.net 0.01 1420 2416 1420 1199 978 623 306 104 29 4 3 4 5 5 5

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
RSA Data Security, Inc. 20.97 10552 13789 15949 16138 16235 15763 15933 16475 16695 16041 15302 13965 12822 11792 10738
VeriSign, Inc. 14.43 0 4 7 7 8 34 109 177 257 1110 2069 3559 4866 6121 7389
Equifax 13.88 917 672 4329 4868 5491 6201 7111 8173 8843 8986 8768 8314 7853 7453 7107
VeriSign Trust Network 12.19 4924 5684 6050 6079 6086 6055 6052 6213 6252 6209 6195 6216 6195 6196 6244
Equifax Secure Inc. 9.93 2176 6659 7201 6995 6728 6329 5966 5553 5310 5203 5168 5084 5083 5062 5087
SECOM Trust.net 8.23 0 0 1897 2176 2452 2834 3269 3601 3759 3810 3863 3949 4047 4142 4217
Comodo CA Limited 7.20 0 0 332 530 739 987 1303 1608 2354 2701 2996 3330 3592 3671 3689
Betrusted Japan Co., Ltd. 4.65 0 0 193 311 430 576 784 1022 1207 1399 1588 1832 2111 2236 2381
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 2.60 0 0 600 652 694 761 819 890 1146 1169 1219 1262 1299 1330 1330
Thawte Consulting cc 1.44 805 787 756 755 747 750 755 757 753 746 753 743 737 739 736
GlobalSign 0.77 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 80 150 239 333 393
Comodo Limited 0.75 1118 2347 2217 2074 1906 1688 1487 1298 1312 1075 912 647 435 405 385
Firstserver, Inc. 0.63 95 532 870 888 908 31 62 97 120 152 175 199 261 292 323
Comodo Japan Inc. 0.40 76 514 772 733 674 632 558 495 570 489 404 329 268 222 205
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd. 0.38 124 952 1208 1131 1073 971 841 786 689 567 505 359 245 214 195
Japan Certification Services, Inc. 0.25 104 109 110 112 111 112 110 111 114 113 112 111 127 128 127
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 0.23 45 121 131 127 129 123 124 128 127 133 129 123 124 120 117
CENTRAL SECURITY PATROLS CO., LTD. 0.21 0 0 1 5 10 19 26 38 52 63 69 80 99 100 108
INTEC Communications Inc. 0.19 14 46 60 62 63 65 70 72 79 81 82 85 94 95 96
NTT Communications Corporation 0.13 96 196 294 301 302 300 264 240 220 193 179 145 123 92 66
National Institute of Informatics 0.11 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 7 8 15 20 32 37 47 56
AddTrust AB 0.09 0 58 162 125 103 85 62 51 54 55 53 54 51 50 48
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.05 0 15 25 24 21 23 22 22 21 22 24 27 26 24 25
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.05 6 20 24 28 30 33 31 32 32 33 33 31 28 27 27
The USERTRUST Network 0.04 231 138 40 38 34 37 36 38 27 27 34 24 27 25 20
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.04 0 0 4 5 6 7 8 10 12 13 13 15 17 18 18
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.03 0 14 16 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 16 18 17 14 15
StartCom Ltd. 0.02 0 1 3 4 4 4 7 7 7 8 8 8 11 11 12
Digital Signature Trust Co. 0.02 5 5 5 6 6 5 6 10 10 9 9 9 8 7 8
Entrust.net 0.01 1420 2416 1420 1199 978 623 306 104 29 4 3 4 5 5 5
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.01 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 3 4 4 4 4 4
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.01 5 6 7 9 9 9 10 10 10 9 8 7 6 6 6
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.01 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 3
Webtizen Inc. 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 6
TEIKOKU DATABANK, LTD. 0.01 11 12 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 11 9 6 6 5
DigiCert Inc 0.01 0 2 4 4 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 7 7 7 7
Akamai 0.00 1 4 8 8 7 6 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GlobalSign Inc 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.00 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
FreeSSL 0.00 28 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SecureTrust Corporation 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
Baltimore Technologies Japan Co.,Ltd. 0.00 484 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 14 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Network Associates 0.00 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2
GeoTrust Inc. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Cybertrust Inc 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
beTRUSTed 0.00 1 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
Fuji Xerox 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Sun Microsystems Inc 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1

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