Certification Services in New Zealand (Aotearoa (NZ)

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 New Zealand (Aotearoa (NZ)

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
VeriSign 59.23 1108 1145 1784 1817 1823 1840 1884 1905 1943 1979 1991 2013 2038 2065 2102
Comodo 36.29 354 510 694 706 728 729 750 774 1154 1182 1239 1247 1278 1285 1288
Other 3.38 308 477 70 78 81 82 89 91 90 90 91 99 109 113 120
Entrust.net 0.48 5 11 13 14 12 11 12 14 14 15 16 16 16 17 17
Go Daddy 0.31 0 1 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 10 11 11
AmbironTrustWave 0.31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 11 14 12 12 11

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 31.14 0 0 346 390 430 481 539 580 887 930 986 1011 1063 1088 1105
Thawte Consulting cc 21.72 744 711 702 720 722 724 741 743 759 757 752 749 754 764 771
Equifax Secure Inc. 18.32 122 357 524 538 542 550 561 559 568 589 599 611 631 639 650
VeriSign Trust Network 8.34 201 235 279 271 268 271 276 278 285 291 290 295 292 293 296
Equifax 4.85 86 44 67 78 83 91 101 123 129 137 145 154 157 165 172
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 2.99 57 111 118 118 117 114 114 113 111 110 108 107 104 104 106
Comodo Limited 2.37 351 443 192 172 160 136 114 99 137 123 123 110 98 91 84
AddTrust AB 2.20 0 58 155 143 136 110 92 89 118 118 118 113 101 86 78
VeriSign, Inc. 2.17 0 1 3 7 14 21 26 30 39 42 49 53 63 71 77
DigiCert Inc 1.32 3 8 15 18 20 20 22 25 33 34 34 40 46 46 47
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 1.24 3 4 20 22 23 26 27 28 27 28 29 33 35 39 44
RSA Data Security, Inc. 0.59 106 87 78 75 71 62 58 54 46 45 40 38 30 25 21
Entrust.net 0.48 5 11 13 14 12 11 12 14 14 15 16 16 16 17 17
Comodo CA Limited 0.45 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 4 9 8 9 9 12 14 16
StartCom Ltd. 0.39 0 11 16 16 15 14 16 15 16 14 14 13 14 14 14
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.25 0 1 7 7 8 8 9 8 9 9 9 8 8 8 9
The USERTRUST Network 0.20 78 43 11 8 4 5 5 4 4 6 6 4 5 2 7
SecureTrust Corporation 0.20 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 5 6 6 7
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 6
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 5 5
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.14 0 1 7 7 8 8 8 7 7 8 7 7 6 6 5
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.11 3 6 8 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 6 6 4
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.08 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
GlobalSign Inc 0.06 0 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
thawte, Inc. 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.03 0 6 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
QuoVadis Limited 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Akamai 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Digi-Sign Limited 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
FreeSSL 0.00 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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