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
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 85.09 776 806 1035 1024 1052 1053 1089 1107 1135 1140 1136 1161 1184 1266 1290
Comodo 6.73 48 55 55 54 58 60 66 65 83 89 92 96 99 97 102
Entrust.net 6.46 4 6 26 26 27 30 37 45 50 62 66 69 74 89 98
Other 1.39 74 109 17 18 17 19 20 23 15 16 16 16 19 20 21
AmbironTrustWave 0.26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 5 4 3 4 4
Go Daddy 0.07 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1

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
Thawte Consulting cc 37.40 446 403 443 441 452 450 465 479 488 490 496 514 526 563 567
VeriSign Trust Network 18.87 223 238 261 257 261 258 258 260 263 261 257 258 264 275 286
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. 11.48 67 131 164 158 161 159 164 171 179 176 173 170 168 170 174
Equifax Secure Inc. 11.41 36 85 113 115 118 123 130 122 124 131 129 134 143 171 173
Entrust.net 5.87 4 6 26 26 27 30 37 45 50 61 64 67 70 82 89
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 5.47 0 0 24 26 36 42 46 48 62 72 74 76 78 79 83
Equifax 2.64 11 3 21 22 27 29 33 35 37 40 40 42 40 40 40
VeriSign, Inc. 2.57 0 2 9 9 11 13 19 21 26 27 27 30 32 38 39
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.59 4 4 4 4 3 2 5 5 4 4 6 6 7 9 9
Entrust, Inc. 0.59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 7 9
RSA Data Security, Inc. 0.46 40 32 21 21 21 21 20 18 16 13 11 10 8 8 7
AddTrust AB 0.46 0 4 12 11 9 8 9 8 11 11 10 10 10 7 7
Comodo CA Limited 0.40 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 3 4 4 6
StartCom Ltd. 0.33 0 7 7 7 7 9 6 8 5 7 5 4 5 4 5
DigiCert Inc 0.33 0 2 2 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 5
thawte, Inc. 0.20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 3
UTN - DATACorp SGC 0.20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 3
Comodo Limited 0.20 48 49 19 17 13 10 10 8 9 5 5 4 4 3 3
SecureTrust Corporation 0.20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 3 3
Network Solutions L.L.C. 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
The USERTRUST Network 0.07 20 7 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1
XRamp Security Services Inc 0.07 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 1 1 1
GoDaddy.com, Inc. 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Secure Business Services, Inc. 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Jabber Software Foundation 0.00 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
GlobalSign Inc 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Starfield Technologies, Inc. 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
beTRUSTed 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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