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
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Comodo 44.58 727 1343 1819 1855 1927 1973 2057 2162 4486 4618 4928 5145 5386 5665 5866
VeriSign 44.45 2410 2866 4557 4610 4702 4779 4870 5035 5416 5469 5541 5619 5659 5747 5849
Other 9.83 862 1429 623 655 675 712 758 820 875 887 901 923 949 1224 1294
Network Solutions 0.62 0 12 33 35 36 38 36 37 58 62 70 71 78 81 81
Entrust.net 0.40 45 56 52 52 51 50 48 52 52 56 58 55 53 54 52
AmbironTrustWave 0.13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 15 16 17 17 15 17

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 25.49 0 0 659 752 881 994 1126 1245 2401 2514 2721 2874 3033 3193 3354
Equifax Secure Inc. 17.11 238 799 1397 1444 1512 1565 1595 1681 1946 1994 2023 2077 2112 2192 2251
Comodo Limited 10.47 722 1225 864 835 812 778 760 751 1797 1770 1734 1628 1544 1460 1378
Thawte Consulting cc 7.36 718 838 873 883 892 909 918 924 920 918 936 942 947 948 968
Comodo CA Limited 6.90 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 7 28 77 215 386 563 771 908
RSA Data Security, Inc. 6.09 1084 1177 1133 1125 1130 1128 1133 1130 1141 1111 1110 1071 1003 892 802
VeriSign Trust Network 5.59 537 699 748 740 745 732 730 743 759 753 750 754 748 742 736
Equifax 3.57 201 123 176 199 208 226 247 273 350 368 388 409 425 444 470
VeriSign, Inc. 3.48 0 22 45 49 51 56 81 115 136 154 165 198 263 369 458
Cybertrust 3.33 0 0 123 136 153 187 214 260 293 306 326 373 398 419 438
AddTrust AB 1.51 0 91 292 262 227 190 159 149 246 241 240 239 227 216 199
GlobalSign nv-sa 1.27 136 199 220 227 228 222 218 222 216 211 197 187 175 175 167
StartCom Ltd. 1.09 0 72 133 136 136 139 151 152 148 148 152 143 146 137 144
DigiNotar B.V. 1.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 125 137
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.03 71 130 131 128 127 128 131 135 134 138 139 138 139 138 135
DigiCert Inc 0.97 5 27 51 58 60 65 67 77 111 110 112 115 116 118 127
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.62 0 12 33 35 36 38 36 37 58 62 70 71 78 81 81
PinkRoccade Infrastructure Services BV 0.59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69 78
Getronics PinkRoccade Nederland B.V. 0.58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62 76
Entrust.net 0.40 45 56 52 52 51 50 48 52 52 55 57 55 53 54 52
DigiNotar 0.34 18 31 33 35 36 37 38 39 44 47 49 37 42 43 45
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.25 31 34 33 32 32 32 32 33 36 36 36 35 31 31 33
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.10 0 0 3 5 5 6 7 9 11 10 10 10 11 13 13
The USERTRUST Network 0.10 208 132 38 26 23 23 23 23 20 20 16 16 8 6 13
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.09 3 9 11 12 12 13 14 14 15 13 14 13 13 12 12
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.09 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 4 8 10 12
CAcert Inc. 0.09 0 0 7 7 6 6 7 8 10 12 12 12 13 11 12
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 3 3 7 7
Digi-Sign Limited 0.05 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 4 4 4 4 6
thawte, Inc. 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 4 5 5
GlobalSign 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 5
SecureTrust Corporation 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 4 4 3 5
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.04 3 4 6 6 6 5 5 6 6 6 6 5 4 5 5
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 3 3
ChainedSSL 0.02 0 8 7 7 6 6 6 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Sun Microsystems Inc 0.02 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
GlobalSign Inc 0.02 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.02 0 1 3 3 4 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2
GeoTrust Inc 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.02 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 3 3
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3
Root CA 0.01 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
agentschap Centraal Informatiepunt Beroepen Gezondheidszorg 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
TBS INTERNET 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
QuoVadis Limited 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
FreeSSL 0.01 21 9 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Cybertrust Inc 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
KAS BANK N.V. 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
GTE Corporation 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.00 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Entrust, Inc. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.00 0 4 1 1 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

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