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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign 55.02 14786 18314 18682 18857 19041 19185 19514 20196 20385 20488 20773 20976 21059 20992
GeoTrust 23.21 2014 5133 5474 5884 6119 6443 6816 7176 7487 7701 8039 8375 8702 8854
Comodo 8.81 693 1833 1998 2175 2270 2415 2592 2767 2922 3041 3179 3271 3356 3363
Entrust.net 6.87 1134 1823 1889 1981 2024 2123 2218 2337 2416 2408 2515 2568 2643 2621
Other 3.14 668 839 863 880 889 886 923 981 1036 1058 1044 1079 1149 1199
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd. 2.95 0 449 539 626 706 796 864 922 952 973 1021 1061 1097 1126

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
RSA Data Security, Inc. 37.56 9228 12094 12349 12564 12678 12846 13117 13625 13789 13870 14103 14263 14349 14330
Equifax Secure Inc. 20.78 371 4399 4731 5100 5326 5645 6011 6346 6659 6880 7208 7522 7825 7929
VeriSign Trust Network 15.16 4617 5332 5416 5392 5460 5445 5506 5658 5684 5710 5764 5820 5823 5783
Entrust.net 6.87 1134 1823 1889 1981 2024 2123 2218 2337 2416 2408 2515 2568 2643 2621
Comodo Limited 6.52 693 1637 1753 1877 1943 2064 2153 2261 2347 2409 2452 2488 2499 2487
Betrusted Japan Co.,Ltd. 2.95 0 449 539 626 706 796 864 922 952 973 1021 1061 1097 1126
Equifax 2.12 1523 454 470 539 560 597 616 651 672 691 735 756 786 808
Thawte Consulting cc 1.96 941 788 809 788 788 769 771 789 787 779 778 765 757 749
Comodo Japan Inc. 1.76 0 196 245 297 326 350 424 477 514 537 589 617 654 673
Firstserver, Inc. 1.74 0 240 282 339 374 424 461 497 532 549 572 610 652 662
NTT Communications Corporation 0.67 46 142 156 164 172 175 180 185 196 208 219 227 243 255
AddTrust AB 0.52 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 28 58 92 135 163 198 199
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 0.32 0 100 107 111 114 122 117 121 121 123 122 122 124 124
Japan Certification Services, Inc. 0.30 98 104 105 104 98 97 108 110 109 108 111 113 115 113
The USERTRUST Network 0.28 75 265 256 228 216 185 171 160 138 113 81 83 77 107
INTEC Communications Inc. 0.13 0 26 27 32 37 38 38 40 46 47 51 49 52 51
SECOM Trust.net 0.09 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 34
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.05 0 0 1 1 3 6 7 10 15 16 17 18 19 19
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.05 8 8 12 15 18 16 17 19 20 18 18 16 20 18
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 16 14 16 15 15
ChainedSSL 0.03 0 2 6 8 10 11 13 14 14 14 15 14 14 10
TEIKOKU DATABANK, LTD. 0.03 8 13 13 11 10 10 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.02 1 4 4 5 6 6 4 6 6 6 6 6 7 7
VeriSign, Inc. 0.02 0 0 1 2 1 3 3 3 4 6 6 6 6 6
DigiCert Inc. 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 4 4
Akamai 0.01 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3
Digital Signature Trust Co. 0.01 2 3 2 2 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5
StartCom Ltd. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1
SOGO KEIBI HOSHO CO.LTD 0.00 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Network Associates 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Sun Microsystems Inc 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
GTE Corporation 0.00 7 7 6 5 4 4 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
GlobalSign Inc 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority 0.00 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
FreeSSL 0.00 45 13 11 9 7 5 5 5 4 2 0 0 0 0
Baltimore Technologies Japan Co.,Ltd. 0.00 460 280 235 181 144 86 69 73 72 65 12 0 0 0
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
beTRUSTed 0.00 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
unknown 0.00 0 7 15 15 13 13 13 13 0 0 0 0 0 0

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