Certification Services in Korea (South) (KR)

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 Korea (South) (KR)

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 56.40 652 745 1000 1098 1173 1268 1391 1586 1823 2033 2175 2509 2559 2650 2685
Comodo 33.75 54 75 140 202 267 321 411 541 864 1066 1309 1462 1539 1573 1607
Other 9.81 190 171 127 159 205 222 263 305 360 396 440 465 481 479 467
Entrust.net 0.02 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
AmbironTrustWave 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Network Solutions 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

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 32.01 0 0 96 160 236 288 380 516 810 1000 1232 1384 1458 1492 1524
VeriSign Trust Network 22.26 344 391 502 540 574 614 666 747 797 837 871 1007 1018 1055 1060
RSA Data Security, Inc. 14.85 212 223 293 351 389 435 492 579 705 811 817 861 819 775 707
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 7.31 126 108 119 151 197 214 256 296 343 377 420 432 425 392 348
VeriSign, Inc. 7.25 0 1 6 4 5 6 5 8 10 27 77 141 192 259 345
Thawte Consulting cc 6.87 79 74 85 85 86 98 103 114 145 170 199 261 279 308 327
Equifax Secure Inc. 3.05 2 31 39 42 40 40 51 61 73 95 114 130 142 147 145
Webtizen Inc. 1.85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 35 59 88
UTN - DATACorp SGC 1.45 0 0 2 4 4 9 10 12 39 51 62 63 67 67 69
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.43 17 56 54 55 56 52 51 52 64 63 65 70 70 68 68
Equifax 0.69 7 9 21 21 23 23 23 25 29 30 32 39 39 38 33
StartCom Ltd. 0.36 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 11 12 11 10 16 17
Comodo Limited 0.27 54 75 36 32 24 23 20 12 14 14 14 14 13 13 13
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.17 0 0 2 2 2 3 4 5 6 5 5 6 7 7 8
eBiz Networks Ltd 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
DigiCert Inc 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2
Entrust.net 0.02 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalSign 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.02 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
AddTrust AB 0.02 0 0 6 6 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.02 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Akamai 0.00 2 4 3 3 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
KICA 0.00 48 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The USERTRUST Network 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
KISA 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0
unknown 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
beTRUSTed 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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