Certification Services in Norway (NO)

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 Norway (NO)

The following graph shows the share of sites currently certified by each certificate authority. Brands belonging to the major companies have been grouped together.

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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 63.09 811 868 1522 1575 1603 1654 1682 1752 1781 1800 1809 1823 1846 1869 1899
Comodo 28.70 142 213 281 290 301 318 334 353 615 633 680 738 783 830 864
Other 6.78 199 407 79 85 88 92 94 101 113 122 135 156 175 188 204
Entrust.net 0.63 19 21 15 17 19 20 20 20 21 19 18 20 20 20 19
AmbironTrustWave 0.47 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 11 13 14 14 13 14
Network Solutions 0.33 0 2 5 6 7 7 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 10

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 18.70 0 0 107 129 145 168 188 206 375 388 416 454 495 528 563
Equifax Secure Inc. 17.91 77 280 436 457 466 477 477 491 494 504 511 517 523 532 539
Thawte Consulting cc 16.31 339 357 388 395 406 420 434 452 467 474 469 478 482 488 491
VeriSign Trust Network 11.03 322 342 337 340 342 343 345 346 341 347 348 342 342 334 332
Equifax 9.83 53 56 150 170 183 203 214 239 254 256 259 262 274 286 296
VeriSign, Inc. 4.58 0 21 53 57 57 65 67 73 77 77 81 91 103 110 138
COMODO CA Limited 3.89 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 10 28 35 45 71 82 102 117
Comodo Limited 3.42 141 185 94 88 82 77 73 70 129 127 132 124 121 113 103
Cybertrust 3.22 0 0 7 10 11 14 17 24 27 38 51 65 76 86 97
DigiCert Inc 2.03 1 3 19 18 21 22 23 27 46 50 48 54 55 57 61
AddTrust AB 1.59 0 25 76 68 67 64 61 62 76 76 78 77 68 61 48
RSA Data Security, Inc. 1.53 126 92 82 83 81 81 78 78 79 74 74 68 62 62 46
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 1.46 24 56 59 60 59 58 58 61 59 57 57 53 49 46 44
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.86 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 6 11 19 26
StartCom Ltd. 0.76 0 14 25 27 26 26 26 23 23 20 22 20 23 23 23
Entrust.net 0.63 19 21 15 17 19 20 20 20 21 19 18 20 20 20 19
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.47 0 1 5 6 7 7 7 6 7 7 7 9 11 12 14
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.33 0 2 5 6 7 7 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 10
SecureTrust Corporation 0.33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 7 7 7 10
thawte, Inc. 0.13 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.13 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.13 1 6 11 11 11 11 11 10 9 8 8 7 7 6 4
The USERTRUST Network 0.10 45 34 13 9 5 4 4 5 3 4 3 5 3 2 3
GeoTrust Inc 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.10 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
AddTrust Sweden AB 0.07 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2
GlobalSign Inc 0.07 0 4 4 5 4 4 3 3 2 1 1 2 2 3 2
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 2
Cybertrust Inc 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
TBS INTERNET 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Jo Tankers 0.03 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.03 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.03 0 1 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 2 2 1 1 1 1
Digi-Sign Limited 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 14 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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