Certification Services in Poland (PL)

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 Poland (PL)

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 56.45 417 481 497 514 527 537 548 556 562 572 581 579 589 591
GeoTrust 22.73 27 113 121 143 144 144 156 166 176 191 217 220 218 238
Comodo 7.64 38 59 61 64 65 64 67 72 75 77 82 83 85 80
mikroBIT Sp. z o.o. 6.40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 101 103 86 79 73 67
E-Telbank Sp. z o.o. 3.92 32 37 39 37 36 39 38 38 36 36 36 38 42 41
Other 2.87 8 28 29 33 31 30 29 33 33 33 33 30 32 30

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 40.21 348 362 368 378 381 393 398 403 405 416 420 417 424 421
Equifax Secure Inc. 20.53 1 46 54 80 87 94 116 132 146 164 200 203 206 215
VeriSign Trust Network 7.83 55 58 67 64 70 70 72 73 75 73 76 78 82 82
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 7.26 0 54 56 63 67 65 70 72 74 75 77 75 73 76
mikroBIT Sp. z o.o. 6.40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 101 103 86 79 73 67
Comodo Limited 5.06 38 57 59 61 62 61 63 67 63 61 60 58 57 53
E-Telbank Sp. z o.o. 3.92 32 37 39 37 36 39 38 38 36 36 36 38 42 41
AddTrust AB 2.29 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 10 14 19 23 25 24
The USERTRUST Network 2.01 9 60 61 57 51 46 35 29 25 22 13 13 11 21
TP Internet Sp. z o.o. 1.53 0 22 22 25 23 22 22 25 22 22 20 18 18 16
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.86 6 6 7 8 8 8 7 8 9 6 9 8 10 9
RSA Data Security, Inc. 0.86 14 7 6 9 9 8 7 7 7 7 6 7 8 9
DigiCert Inc. 0.29 0 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 3 2 3 3
VeriSign, Inc. 0.29 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3
StartCom Ltd. 0.19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 2
Digi-Sign Limited 0.19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Equifax 0.10 10 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 1
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 7 2 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0