Certification Services in Norway (NO)

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 Norway (NO)

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 50.56 868 1519 1896 1926 1954 1980 2008 2006 2029 2056 2078 2068 2084 2074 2091
Comodo 36.75 213 281 864 958 1014 1084 1125 1178 1240 1276 1294 1353 1399 1448 1520
Other 11.03 407 79 220 237 253 268 282 319 338 355 384 408 435 445 456
Entrust.net 0.70 21 15 19 19 19 19 19 20 21 21 21 23 26 27 29
GlobalSign 0.65 0 3 1 2 4 8 8 11 15 16 16 19 21 23 27
Network Solutions 0.31 2 5 10 11 14 13 13 12 11 12 13 13 13 13 13

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 22.17 0 107 563 615 654 691 710 731 763 777 776 816 852 881 917
Equifax Secure Inc. VeriSign 15.09 280 436 539 549 562 579 594 593 595 600 617 615 616 621 624
Thawte Consulting cc VeriSign 12.21 357 388 491 498 500 509 514 513 505 509 509 510 510 510 505
Equifax VeriSign 10.23 56 150 296 308 318 326 342 353 381 397 399 403 410 412 423
COMODO CA Limited 8.08 0 0 117 134 152 184 200 212 237 259 267 281 290 306 334
VeriSign Trust Network VeriSign 6.14 342 337 332 334 333 332 321 309 305 305 300 285 279 265 254
VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign 5.59 21 53 138 141 146 148 161 168 184 188 194 203 213 210 231
Cybertrust 5.20 0 7 97 108 112 125 139 149 159 169 180 190 206 210 215
UTN - DATACorp SGC Comodo 5.05 0 1 26 57 69 87 100 126 145 152 167 181 190 196 209
DigiCert Inc 4.01 3 19 61 68 74 78 79 96 100 107 129 142 151 162 166
Comodo Limited Comodo 0.85 185 94 103 99 92 88 83 76 62 55 52 44 38 37 35
StartCom Ltd. 0.73 14 25 23 20 21 18 17 26 33 32 29 30 31 31 30
Entrust.net Entrust.net 0.65 21 15 19 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 22 24 25 27
GlobalSign nv-sa GlobalSign 0.44 2 3 1 1 3 5 5 6 9 10 10 13 14 14 18
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. VeriSign 0.44 56 59 44 43 39 32 23 21 19 18 18 16 18 18 18
thawte, Inc. VeriSign 0.39 0 0 4 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 12 14 14 16
AddTrust AB Comodo 0.36 25 76 48 45 39 26 23 21 21 21 21 20 18 17 15
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.34 1 5 14 14 16 17 18 20 19 21 21 21 21 14 14
Network Solutions L.L.C. Network Solutions 0.31 2 5 10 11 14 13 13 12 11 12 13 13 13 13 13
SecureTrust Corporation AmbironTrustWave 0.27 0 0 10 11 13 13 12 11 11 10 10 9 9 10 11
GoDaddy.com, Inc. Go Daddy 0.24 0 0 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 7 8 10
GeoTrust Inc VeriSign 0.24 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 5 5 6 6 7 7 9 10
RSA Data Security, Inc. VeriSign 0.22 92 82 46 43 43 42 40 35 24 21 20 16 15 14 9
Alpha GlobalSign 0.12 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.12 3 3 3 3 6 6 6 6 8 7 7 7 5 5 5
Secure Business Services, Inc. Comodo 0.10 0 1 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 4
AddTrust Sweden AB Comodo 0.10 0 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
GlobalSign GlobalSign 0.10 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 4
TBS INTERNET Comodo 0.05 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Starfield Technologies, Inc. Go Daddy 0.05 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2
Entrust, Inc. Entrust.net 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
Jo Tankers 0.02 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
XRamp Security Services Inc AmbironTrustWave 0.02 6 11 4 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The USERTRUST Network VeriSign 0.02 34 13 3 3 5 3 3 1 1 1 3 1 2 1 1
Cybertrust Inc 0.02 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
GTE Corporation 0.00 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GlobalSign Inc 0.00 4 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FreeSSL VeriSign 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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