Certification Services in Ireland (IE)

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 Ireland (IE)

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 52.26 549 1107 1325 1346 1386 1405 1421 1448 1470 1501 1528 1568 1562 1573 1595
Comodo 40.53 440 635 1011 1045 1052 1078 1098 1117 1146 1154 1177 1189 1197 1217 1237
Other 4.78 578 58 87 88 95 97 95 99 107 111 114 122 134 139 146
GlobalSign 1.05 0 17 23 24 22 24 24 26 27 29 28 29 31 31 32
Network Solutions 0.75 1 6 11 10 14 16 17 20 22 24 25 24 23 25 23
Go Daddy 0.62 2 5 9 9 11 12 12 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 19

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
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware Comodo 34.34 0 268 816 854 878 905 926 941 967 976 999 1009 1012 1029 1048
Equifax Secure Inc. VeriSign 22.54 419 468 505 515 536 553 561 577 592 618 637 661 657 668 688
Thawte Consulting cc VeriSign 12.98 290 294 363 364 368 370 367 371 377 376 377 387 389 386 396
Equifax VeriSign 5.87 29 71 144 146 153 150 156 158 159 165 165 171 175 181 179
VeriSign Trust Network VeriSign 5.31 136 138 162 166 165 163 163 166 160 156 160 165 165 169 162
VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign 4.55 18 34 91 98 109 115 119 127 131 137 142 145 140 134 139
Digi-Sign Limited Comodo 3.83 14 73 111 110 106 107 109 112 115 115 114 114 118 120 117
DigiCert Inc 1.64 4 12 35 35 37 37 36 39 45 47 49 49 51 50 50
Comodo CA Limited Comodo 1.21 0 0 12 14 16 16 19 21 23 24 27 28 29 33 37
Cybertrust Inc 1.05 0 0 5 6 7 9 11 16 17 17 19 24 29 31 32
Network Solutions L.L.C. Network Solutions 0.75 1 6 11 10 14 16 17 20 22 24 25 24 23 25 23
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. VeriSign 0.69 45 45 39 37 36 36 36 34 33 32 29 23 23 23 21
GlobalSign nv-sa GlobalSign 0.62 12 17 16 17 15 16 15 17 18 18 17 17 17 17 19
GoDaddy.com, Inc. Go Daddy 0.59 0 0 6 6 8 9 10 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 18
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.46 0 3 12 10 10 10 9 9 10 10 10 12 13 15 14
Entrust.net Entrust.net 0.46 13 9 9 9 10 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 14 14 14
SecureTrust Corporation AmbironTrustWave 0.43 0 0 6 9 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 14 14 14 13
AddTrust AB Comodo 0.36 21 107 33 32 24 21 19 19 19 19 19 18 17 13 11
Cybertrust 0.33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10
GlobalSign GlobalSign 0.33 0 0 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 9 9 10 11 11 10
UTN - DATACorp SGC Comodo 0.26 0 0 5 4 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 5 7 7 8
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority Comodo 0.23 4 4 2 2 2 3 6 6 6 5 5 6 7 7 7
thawte, Inc. VeriSign 0.20 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 6 6
StartCom Ltd. 0.16 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 3 2 3 4 4 5
RSA Data Security, Inc. VeriSign 0.13 60 49 14 13 12 11 11 10 10 10 10 7 7 6 4
Comodo Limited Comodo 0.13 396 182 30 27 22 22 15 14 11 10 7 6 4 5 4
AddTrust Sweden AB Comodo 0.10 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3
Alpha GlobalSign 0.10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3
Secure Business Services, Inc. Comodo 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Vodafone Group 0.07 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2
Trustwave Holdings, Inc. 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
RSA Security Inc. 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
XRamp Security Services Inc AmbironTrustWave 0.03 3 5 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Starfield Technologies, Inc. Go Daddy 0.03 2 5 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1
CAcert Inc. 0.03 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft. 0.03 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Root CA 0.00 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jabber Software Foundation 0.00 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ChainedSSL VeriSign 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GlobalSign Inc 0.00 16 18 6 5 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The USERTRUST Network VeriSign 0.00 76 7 4 4 4 4 5 2 4 3 4 4 1 0 0
Postecom S.p.A. 0.00 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
Microsoft Secure Server Authority 0.00 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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