Certification Services in Netherlands (NL)

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 Netherlands (NL)

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 46.71 2285 2552 2704 2671 2727 2742 2767 2825 2866 2874 2883 2928 2933 2922
Comodo 24.28 522 925 1032 1083 1133 1157 1210 1276 1343 1361 1424 1479 1534 1519
GeoTrust 20.80 480 775 874 906 934 962 992 1022 1071 1109 1144 1194 1233 1301
GlobalSign 3.45 96 155 169 164 178 180 186 191 199 204 205 218 218 216
Other 2.88 85 110 117 122 126 127 132 146 155 153 150 145 159 180
StartCom Ltd. 1.87 0 0 15 17 19 26 52 59 72 81 89 95 112 117

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. 18.59 1045 1106 1159 1136 1147 1161 1146 1160 1177 1173 1167 1178 1166 1163
Comodo Limited 18.27 522 914 1018 1067 1116 1139 1171 1208 1225 1205 1212 1192 1176 1143
Equifax Secure Inc. 16.58 47 438 518 562 600 656 699 745 799 853 905 954 1006 1037
Thawte Consulting cc 13.83 738 740 785 775 793 800 812 833 838 847 853 873 881 865
VeriSign Trust Network 11.70 502 590 632 629 659 652 673 687 699 701 710 718 725 732
AddTrust AB 5.42 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 46 91 128 180 254 324 339
GlobalSign nv-sa 3.44 96 155 169 164 178 180 186 191 199 204 205 218 217 215
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 2.13 0 116 127 123 120 116 123 125 130 132 129 134 135 133
The USERTRUST Network 2.06 89 215 218 206 197 172 155 140 132 113 100 102 92 129
Equifax 1.89 315 101 115 117 117 115 119 120 123 121 121 120 116 118
StartCom Ltd. 1.87 0 0 15 17 19 26 52 59 72 81 89 95 112 117
Entrust.net 0.91 37 42 45 49 52 51 50 54 56 54 53 53 54 57
DigiCert Inc. 0.59 0 11 14 16 17 18 20 22 27 28 32 33 34 37
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.54 31 33 32 31 29 28 30 31 34 34 34 33 34 34
VeriSign, Inc. 0.46 0 0 1 8 8 13 13 20 22 21 24 25 26 29
DigiNotar 0.45 8 22 24 25 26 26 27 31 31 34 31 26 27 28
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.35 0 0 0 0 1 5 8 10 12 13 14 14 21 22
Cybertrust 0.29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 18
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.14 0 3 6 7 8 8 7 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
ChainedSSL 0.11 0 4 5 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 7
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.10 2 3 3 3 3 2 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6
FreeSSL 0.06 29 17 18 14 13 12 11 9 9 8 4 4 4 4
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 4 4 3
Root CA 0.03 0 4 4 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2
Sun Microsystems Inc 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
CAcert Inc. 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
GlobalSign Inc 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.02 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
PTT Post 0.00 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
HOMEBAZE.NET 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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