Certification Services in Australia (AU)

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 Australia (AU)

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
%		 2006 2007 2008 2009
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
VeriSign 65.63 4987 9407 11719 11901 11969 12115 12279 12470 12692 12885 13218 13464 13665 13912 14183
Comodo 26.88 2402 2776 4624 4771 4784 4894 5025 5103 5273 5389 5469 5552 5677 5746 5809
Other 5.74 3136 364 686 714 752 807 849 926 970 1009 1089 1152 1188 1212 1241
Go Daddy 0.67 27 36 77 84 97 108 115 117 126 126 127 135 140 142 145
Entrust.net 0.57 99 70 95 98 101 104 107 106 102 101 100 101 108 108 123
AmbironTrustWave 0.51 0 0 74 76 82 86 87 92 101 104 107 106 107 109 110

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 Group Current
%		 2006 2007 2008 2009
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Equifax Secure Inc. VeriSign 31.18 2512 3762 4966 5061 5120 5199 5317 5483 5624 5767 6018 6168 6340 6547 6739
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware Comodo 25.32 0 1329 4049 4237 4329 4496 4663 4749 4929 5049 5123 5221 5345 5407 5471
Thawte Consulting cc VeriSign 11.57 2378 2318 2489 2496 2464 2479 2471 2467 2483 2489 2495 2528 2513 2499 2500
VeriSign Trust Network VeriSign 8.93 1712 1875 2000 2026 2012 2026 1995 1968 1955 1935 1939 1945 1933 1929 1929
Equifax VeriSign 8.50 186 485 1258 1296 1352 1379 1448 1502 1566 1595 1661 1695 1737 1782 1838
VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign 3.60 3 7 380 415 432 462 487 518 548 586 620 664 700 744 777
DigiCert Inc 2.60 57 84 254 271 281 311 325 363 382 406 481 523 539 557 561
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 1.63 38 101 220 232 244 264 286 307 316 323 328 329 345 346 352
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. VeriSign 1.62 452 447 402 403 404 402 399 391 390 387 377 365 360 359 351
COMODO CA Limited 0.87 0 0 50 58 60 64 88 103 121 133 144 149 161 177 188
GoDaddy.com, Inc. Go Daddy 0.61 0 0 53 60 74 85 92 95 107 109 111 119 126 128 132
Entrust.net Entrust.net 0.56 99 70 95 98 101 104 107 106 102 101 100 101 108 108 120
StartCom Ltd. 0.46 35 68 83 79 80 73 74 81 88 88 81 95 91 94 99
SecureTrust Corporation AmbironTrustWave 0.44 0 0 46 51 58 65 66 73 83 86 89 89 90 93 95
GlobalSign Inc 0.26 14 16 37 38 47 49 49 50 52 53 56 56 55 56 56
AddTrust AB Comodo 0.22 189 558 247 211 163 121 88 77 75 72 71 68 66 57 47
Network Solutions L.L.C. Network Solutions 0.20 6 14 35 34 37 38 40 44 45 46 48 48 49 44 43
UTN - DATACorp SGC Comodo 0.17 0 0 15 17 17 21 22 26 25 27 33 33 33 35 36
Comodo Limited Comodo 0.16 2156 882 243 227 193 171 141 123 98 80 69 52 42 37 34
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.12 0 4 15 19 20 25 23 20 20 21 21 21 21 21 25
GlobalSign nv-sa GlobalSign 0.12 4 8 6 6 7 9 11 13 19 21 23 23 24 24 27
thawte, Inc. VeriSign 0.11 0 0 10 13 15 15 15 15 17 17 20 21 21 24 24
Digi-Sign Limited Comodo 0.11 0 7 14 14 14 14 15 17 17 19 20 20 20 22 23
Cybertrust Inc 0.11 0 0 10 10 10 12 15 20 20 21 22 21 22 22 24
XRamp Security Services Inc AmbironTrustWave 0.07 24 50 28 25 24 21 21 19 18 18 18 17 17 16 15
RSA Data Security, Inc. VeriSign 0.06 442 446 183 169 152 139 122 106 89 80 65 46 35 16 13
Alpha GlobalSign 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 2 5 7 11 14
Starfield Technologies, Inc. Go Daddy 0.06 27 36 24 24 23 23 23 22 19 17 16 16 14 14 13
Root CA 0.05 5 2 8 8 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 10
GlobalSign GlobalSign 0.04 0 0 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 3 3 4 6 7 8
The USERTRUST Network VeriSign 0.04 264 59 30 21 18 13 23 18 18 26 20 28 22 8 8
Trustwave Holdings, Inc. 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 6
Dell Inc. 0.02 0 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority Comodo 0.02 0 0 4 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4
GeoTrust Inc VeriSign 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4
Secure Business Services, Inc. Comodo 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 4 3
SecureNet CA Class B 0.01 13 8 4 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
MasterCard Worldwide 0.01 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Entrust, Inc. Entrust.net 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
CAcert Inc. 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 2 3 3
WebSpace-Forum, Thomas Wendt Comodo 0.01 0 0 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
MasterCard International 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
A-Trust Ges. f. Sicherheitssysteme im elektr. Datenverkehr GmbH 0.00 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
RSA Security Inc. 0.00 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Accenture 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
ChainedSSL VeriSign 0.00 22 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akamai 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ford Motor Company - Enterprise Issuing CA01 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
FreeSSL VeriSign 0.00 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH 0.00 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

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