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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign 77.60 664 695 683 701 697 696 726 747 745 751 747 757 763 783
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 9.71 105 114 103 115 107 107 105 107 108 110 109 107 105 98
Comodo 7.14 46 74 76 73 73 67 73 74 75 71 73 72 73 72
GeoTrust 4.56 8 19 20 20 20 19 27 32 40 40 38 43 45 46
Other 0.50 68 44 43 37 35 34 29 27 19 16 14 5 5 5
Akamai 0.50 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign Trust Network 42.22 329 358 348 356 354 359 381 389 391 391 398 407 412 426
RSA Data Security, Inc. 23.59 242 214 211 220 214 207 214 221 223 225 219 223 228 238
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 9.71 105 114 103 115 107 107 105 107 108 110 109 107 105 98
Comodo Limited 6.34 46 74 76 73 73 67 73 74 75 71 70 66 65 64
Thawte Consulting cc 6.14 93 83 83 83 85 80 78 80 74 74 70 69 61 62
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 5.35 0 40 41 42 44 50 53 57 56 60 58 55 59 54
Equifax Secure Inc. 3.47 1 10 11 11 11 9 18 23 31 31 29 34 35 35
Equifax 0.99 6 6 7 7 6 7 8 8 9 9 9 9 10 10
AddTrust AB 0.79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 8 8
Akamai 0.50 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5
VeriSign, Inc. 0.30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 3 3
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2
Entrust.net 0.10 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.10 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The USERTRUST Network 0.10 1 2 2 2 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
KISA 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
StartCom Ltd. 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
KICA 0.00 51 41 39 32 30 29 24 22 14 10 8 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
beTRUSTed 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

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