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 Poland (PL)
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:
- Extended Validation certificates.
- Organisation validated certificates.
- Domain only validated certificates.
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
| Authority | Current % |
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Jan | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | ||
| VeriSign | 66.97 | 562 | 1023 | 1471 | 1508 | 1577 | 1625 | 1693 | 1754 | 1818 | 1857 | 1956 | 2006 | 2090 | 2172 | 2232 |
| Other | 28.38 | 344 | 432 | 608 | 629 | 637 | 651 | 675 | 704 | 741 | 761 | 779 | 820 | 864 | 903 | 946 |
| Comodo | 4.38 | 77 | 96 | 122 | 126 | 125 | 131 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 133 | 141 | 145 | 143 | 144 | 146 |
| GlobalSign | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| Network Solutions | 0.06 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Entrust.net | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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
| 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 | 34.80 | 146 | 309 | 586 | 616 | 658 | 700 | 745 | 793 | 839 | 869 | 944 | 1004 | 1062 | 1121 | 1160 |
| Thawte Consulting cc | VeriSign | 22.32 | 405 | 512 | 624 | 622 | 636 | 644 | 659 | 668 | 678 | 690 | 705 | 700 | 720 | 732 | 744 |
| Unizeto Sp. z o.o. | 20.94 | 0 | 263 | 411 | 428 | 434 | 473 | 492 | 516 | 544 | 561 | 573 | 609 | 642 | 670 | 698 | |
| UTN-USERFirst-Hardware | Comodo | 3.84 | 0 | 39 | 100 | 103 | 105 | 110 | 109 | 112 | 114 | 113 | 119 | 123 | 123 | 125 | 128 |
| VeriSign, Inc. | VeriSign | 3.51 | 1 | 4 | 47 | 51 | 58 | 61 | 66 | 69 | 78 | 86 | 91 | 94 | 96 | 112 | 117 |
| VeriSign Trust Network | VeriSign | 2.46 | 75 | 97 | 102 | 104 | 102 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 94 | 88 | 84 | 85 | 84 | 79 | 82 |
| Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. | VeriSign | 2.46 | 74 | 76 | 77 | 81 | 81 | 84 | 82 | 83 | 80 | 79 | 80 | 79 | 77 | 81 | 82 |
| mikroBIT Sp. z o.o. | 1.71 | 101 | 94 | 89 | 89 | 89 | 59 | 59 | 58 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 60 | 59 | 57 | |
| Cybertrust | 1.50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 31 | 50 | |
| IPS Certification Authority s.l. | 1.47 | 9 | 13 | 29 | 33 | 37 | 40 | 43 | 49 | 52 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 54 | 53 | 49 | |
| E-Telbank Sp. z o.o. | 1.32 | 36 | 49 | 44 | 46 | 45 | 42 | 46 | 47 | 46 | 47 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 43 | 44 | |
| Equifax | VeriSign | 1.20 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 22 | 24 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 37 | 39 | 40 |
| StartCom Ltd. | 0.75 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 25 | |
| DigiCert Inc | 0.54 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 18 | |
| Comodo CA Limited | Comodo | 0.42 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| thawte, Inc. | VeriSign | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| GlobalSign | GlobalSign | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Network Solutions L.L.C. | Network Solutions | 0.06 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Jabber Software Foundation | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| GlobalSign nv-sa | GlobalSign | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Secure Business Services, Inc. | Comodo | 0.03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| RSA Data Security, Inc. | VeriSign | 0.03 | 7 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 |
| UTN - DATACorp SGC | Comodo | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Digi-Sign Limited | Comodo | 0.03 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Entrust.net | Entrust.net | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| SecureTrust Corporation | AmbironTrustWave | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| AddTrust AB | Comodo | 0.03 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| GeoTrust Inc | VeriSign | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH | 0.03 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH | 0.03 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| ChainedSSL | VeriSign | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TP Internet Sp. z o.o. | 0.00 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Comodo Limited | Comodo | 0.00 | 63 | 42 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| XRamp Security Services Inc | AmbironTrustWave | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| The USERTRUST Network | VeriSign | 0.00 | 25 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FreeSSL | VeriSign | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
