Certification Services in unknown (XX)

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 unknown (XX)

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
Go Daddy 67.82 2774 24764 53102 55855 58683 61611 86656 88250 91127 93485 96196 100211 116877 119325 123011
VeriSign 17.47 2092 11594 20004 20819 21579 22375 23722 25007 26356 27316 28052 29125 29846 30687 31697
Comodo 7.85 92 473 4349 4582 4788 5231 6303 7237 9719 10236 11806 12476 13202 13919 14238
Other 6.86 208 3490 5488 5746 6100 6386 6910 7238 7683 8100 8800 9827 10666 11547 12436
AmbironTrustWave 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 3 3 3
Network Solutions 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3

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
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 49.01 0 0 0 0 2078 7431 21085 27383 34172 40495 46645 55330 75061 81670 88890
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 18.81 2774 24764 53102 55855 56605 54180 65571 60867 56955 52990 49551 44881 41816 37655 34121
Thawte Consulting cc 17.41 0 8418 19328 20309 21248 22195 23633 24916 26260 27218 27951 29027 29745 30582 31584
Comodo CA Limited 4.94 0 0 777 973 1197 1623 2577 3460 5032 5639 7028 7654 8047 8602 8961
Root CA 2.89 0 3183 4239 4279 4416 4508 4761 4889 4956 4857 4921 4960 5031 5127 5239
Secure Business Services, Inc. 2.32 0 0 976 1181 1367 1599 1888 2149 2865 3034 3415 3701 4025 4176 4205
GlobalSign nv-sa 2.12 1 1 3 3 6 23 55 103 139 532 1013 1805 2480 3170 3838
CAcert Inc. 0.94 0 16 794 854 912 994 1116 1207 1283 1373 1459 1541 1602 1654 1698
RegisterFly.com, inc. 0.53 0 0 305 460 605 698 805 854 1118 1108 1113 1129 1067 995 953
Positive Software Corporation 0.42 0 468 2595 2427 2223 2003 1823 1602 1752 1472 1234 958 902 841 757
Alpha 0.25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 87 172 251 350 448
OptimumSSL CA 0.17 0 0 0 0 0 5 14 25 65 86 124 156 221 294 309
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.06 40 76 80 82 80 83 89 91 95 96 99 96 99 103 110
Wells Fargo 0.05 37 52 63 65 71 71 71 74 71 72 78 81 83 83 82
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.02 4 5 14 15 15 15 16 19 18 18 24 28 28 30 32
WoSign, Inc. 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 5 8 8 10 13 14
The Walt Disney Company Commerce CA 0.01 0 4 12 12 14 14 16 15 16 17 16 18 18 17 17
eBiz Networks Ltd 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 4 4 11 15 15
Root Agency 0.01 0 23 17 14 15 15 20 20 17 16 17 19 19 19 18
Schering AG 0.01 0 5 24 24 23 23 19 18 25 23 22 20 19 19 16
GTE Corporation 0.00 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Wotone Communications, Inc. 0.00 0 0 1 0 1 4 5 6 6 5 5 5 5 4 4
Comodo Limited 0.00 90 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Walt Disney Company Enterprise CA 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
CENTRAL SECURITY PATROLS CO., LTD. 0.00 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
I.T. Telecom 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GlobalSign Inc 0.00 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1
thawte, Inc. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2
Digicert Sdn. Bhd. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Saphety 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
I.T. Telecom S.p.A. 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cybertrust 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.00 3 4 3 2 3 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
Bayer Group 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 4 4 9
Configuration 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
ABB Ltd. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2
TBS INTERNET 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 1 0 0
Unizeto Sp. z o.o. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
SecureTrust Corporation 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 3
Cisco Systems 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Giesecke and Devrient 0.00 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1
IPS Seguridad CA 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Sonera 0.00 0 0 0 3 3 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 7
MindGenies 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 7
SAIC 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
Intel Corporation 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1
Actalis S.p.A. 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Migros 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
AC Camerfirma SA 0.00 1 0 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 0.00 2092 3176 596 428 251 97 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VeriSign Trust Network 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 4 4 4
AddTrust AB 0.00 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Munich Re Group 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 5
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.00 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.00 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
unknown 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DigiCert Inc 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SecureNet CA Class B 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
global 0.00 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
U.S. Government 0.00 0 3 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 8
Sun Microsystems Inc 0.00 109 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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