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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
VeriSign 50.75 1136 1115 1123 1115 1119 1101 1097 1143 1145 1153 1144 1149 1151 1146
Comodo 23.87 277 407 423 429 443 452 473 495 509 515 533 546 560 539
GeoTrust 23.29 225 352 377 380 391 402 423 435 450 463 468 477 500 526
Other 0.93 15 15 15 16 16 16 17 18 18 17 16 17 22 21
StartCom Ltd. 0.66 0 0 0 1 1 4 6 9 11 12 12 15 15 15
Entrust.net 0.49 4 11 11 11 11 11 9 11 11 11 12 11 11 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
%		 2004 2005 2006
Jun Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Thawte Consulting cc 30.82 821 711 709 709 704 688 693 717 711 707 696 699 700 696
Equifax Secure Inc. 19.71 15 213 241 258 277 296 324 341 357 380 395 412 439 445
Comodo Limited 16.03 277 401 417 422 436 445 451 460 443 434 425 404 389 362
VeriSign Trust Network 11.34 196 203 208 203 208 218 219 230 235 242 248 249 254 256
AddTrust AB 7.48 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 26 58 72 99 133 163 169
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 4.87 0 103 109 111 114 107 103 110 111 114 113 115 111 110
RSA Data Security, Inc. 3.68 119 98 97 92 93 88 82 86 87 89 86 85 85 83
The USERTRUST Network 1.99 32 82 77 68 61 55 50 48 43 38 30 29 27 45
Equifax 1.37 165 46 47 42 43 43 43 40 44 39 37 31 29 31
StartCom Ltd. 0.66 0 0 0 1 1 4 6 9 11 12 12 15 15 15
Entrust.net 0.49 4 11 11 11 11 11 9 11 11 11 12 11 11 11
DigiCert Inc. 0.35 0 6 6 7 7 7 8 9 8 9 9 9 8 8
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.31 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 8 7
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.27 1 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 5 4 5 6 6
ChainedSSL 0.22 0 1 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5
GlobalSign Inc 0.13 0 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Digi-Sign Limited 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
QuoVadis Limited 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.04 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.04 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
VeriSign, Inc. 0.04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
Akamai 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 7 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 13 10 7 6 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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