Certification Services in South Africa (ZA)

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 South Africa (ZA)

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 81.93 776 779 781 776 785 789 792 804 806 813 824 831 837 839
GeoTrust 10.84 46 81 86 88 87 93 96 97 95 103 113 110 112 111
Comodo 5.18 36 53 55 51 55 55 57 57 55 57 58 60 57 53
Other 0.78 6 7 7 5 6 6 8 8 7 6 7 8 8 8
Entrust.net 0.78 3 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 6 5 5 5 7 8
StartCom Ltd. 0.49 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 7 7 6 6 4 5

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 39.84 520 402 398 392 396 398 395 403 403 403 409 408 410 408
VeriSign Trust Network 24.71 209 217 218 218 223 225 232 235 238 245 248 252 248 253
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 14.06 0 122 126 130 131 131 133 132 131 132 135 136 143 144
Equifax Secure Inc. 9.77 9 59 66 69 69 75 81 85 85 94 105 103 103 100
Comodo Limited 3.42 36 52 54 50 54 54 56 52 49 45 44 42 38 35
RSA Data Security, Inc. 2.73 47 38 39 36 35 35 31 33 32 31 30 30 31 28
AddTrust AB 1.37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 9 10 14 15 14
Entrust.net 0.78 3 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 6 5 5 5 7 8
The USERTRUST Network 0.68 12 18 16 16 14 14 11 9 7 5 4 3 5 7
VeriSign, Inc. 0.59 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 5 5 6
StartCom Ltd. 0.49 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 7 7 6 6 4 5
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.39 4 4 4 3 4 4 6 5 4 3 3 4 4 4
DigiCert Inc. 0.39 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 4
Equifax 0.39 24 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 4
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.20 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
beTRUSTed 0.10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalSign nv-sa 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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