Certification Services in Canada (CA)

This analysis relates to those sites found in the survey where the certificate authority certified the domain only (plus the certificate is valid and the common name certificate matched the hostname).

Market Share of Domain-Validated Certificates in Canada (CA)

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.

Domain-Validated Certificates in Canada (CA) — current market share

Domain-Validated Certificates in Canada (CA) — current 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).

Domain-Validated Certificates in Canada (CA) — share over time

Domain-Validated Certificates in Canada (CA) — share over time

Authority Current
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 98.87 0 0 7594 7750 8051 8221 8515 8685 8889 8917 9029 9130 9278 9481 9658
Other 1.11 0 45 91 91 89 97 101 108 107 108 108 108 105 106 108
Comodo 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
GeoTrust 0.00 4741 6174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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.

Domain-Validated Certificates in Canada (CA) — brands over time

Domain-Validated Certificates in Canada (CA) — brands over time

Authority Current
%		 2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Equifax Secure Inc. 73.78 2526 5610 6612 6591 6701 6687 6759 6779 6817 6761 6811 6854 6952 7087 7207
Equifax 24.67 1278 106 889 1085 1287 1482 1699 1864 2031 2111 2180 2227 2282 2343 2410
StartCom Ltd. 1.11 0 45 91 91 89 97 101 108 107 108 108 108 105 106 108
The USERTRUST Network 0.39 798 404 86 67 55 44 51 36 38 43 36 47 41 48 38
FreeSSL 0.02 139 20 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Thawte Consulting cc 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
ChainedSSL 0.00 0 34 5 5 6 6 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

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