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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign 53.57 819 826 834 822 845 830 838 853 868 878 881 870 878 870
GeoTrust 28.51 119 246 270 272 282 310 326 353 371 400 413 433 450 463
Comodo 13.92 128 169 182 189 188 191 205 210 213 216 217 223 226 226
Other 1.79 20 21 20 18 21 23 24 25 24 20 24 23 25 29
StartCom Ltd. 1.42 0 0 3 4 4 7 10 13 14 17 20 20 22 23
Entrust.net 0.80 20 22 24 25 24 24 25 20 21 16 16 15 13 13

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
Equifax Secure Inc. 22.54 13 154 176 181 192 223 240 267 280 303 323 341 364 366
Thawte Consulting cc 22.23 361 325 331 330 333 334 344 350 357 361 360 353 362 361
VeriSign Trust Network 19.89 322 327 326 322 336 324 330 342 342 338 329 328 330 323
Comodo Limited 8.81 128 167 180 187 185 188 196 191 185 180 169 159 148 143
RSA Data Security, Inc. 5.54 136 125 123 116 117 108 97 89 92 99 100 95 91 90
AddTrust AB 4.68 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 16 25 32 44 57 71 76
Equifax 3.69 75 41 46 47 45 46 48 48 56 57 56 59 57 60
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 3.57 0 49 52 52 55 54 54 58 56 55 59 58 59 58
VeriSign, Inc. 2.34 0 0 2 2 4 10 13 14 21 25 33 36 36 38
The USERTRUST Network 2.09 18 48 46 41 42 38 36 37 34 36 30 30 26 34
StartCom Ltd. 1.42 0 0 3 4 4 7 10 13 14 17 20 20 22 23
Entrust.net 0.80 20 22 24 25 24 24 25 20 21 16 16 15 13 13
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.62 1 4 4 4 6 7 8 8 6 6 8 9 9 10
DigiCert Inc. 0.43 0 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 4 4 7 7 7
GlobalSign Inc 0.31 0 1 2 1 2 4 4 4 4 4 6 5 5 5
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.25 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.18 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.18 0 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 3
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.12 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2
Jo Tankers 0.06 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
FreeSSL 0.06 13 3 2 2 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 15 10 7 6 6 5 5 5 4 3 1 0 0 0

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