Certification Services in Sweden (SE)

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 Sweden (SE)

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 63.75 1913 3173 3982 4051 4142 4201 4246 4333 4380 4407 4451 4486 4513 4571 4616
Comodo 20.45 482 556 1145 1195 1200 1278 1310 1341 1370 1388 1401 1428 1456 1476 1481
Other 13.48 793 140 431 480 543 572 612 655 700 718 775 841 881 916 976
GlobalSign 1.06 0 11 10 11 9 15 25 28 40 42 46 50 61 68 77
Entrust.net 0.65 17 18 37 38 41 43 41 41 41 40 41 45 45 49 47
Network Solutions 0.61 2 9 28 29 29 28 31 32 37 38 41 38 39 39 44

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 16.81 555 747 909 937 965 997 1027 1061 1080 1089 1120 1160 1163 1192 1217
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware Comodo 14.13 0 207 688 728 758 836 877 907 931 950 958 979 1001 1020 1023
Thawte Consulting cc VeriSign 13.42 618 757 937 955 978 988 982 992 986 982 989 966 976 977 972
VeriSign, Inc. VeriSign 12.33 100 245 581 605 642 662 682 707 747 759 771 802 831 869 893
Equifax VeriSign 10.65 106 290 587 601 623 631 651 683 703 712 719 736 749 756 771
VeriSign Trust Network VeriSign 8.87 587 665 702 703 707 710 705 702 689 691 690 678 660 649 642
Cybertrust 6.19 0 0 156 185 218 236 269 279 305 317 342 376 394 418 448
DigiCert Inc 4.43 16 36 146 156 187 196 202 223 246 242 267 288 294 302 321
Comodo CA Limited Comodo 4.34 0 0 99 124 143 185 205 222 249 250 260 273 292 302 314
StartCom Ltd. 1.22 22 45 52 58 52 52 50 58 54 60 68 68 79 86 88
AddTrust Sweden AB Comodo 1.02 8 35 61 64 63 65 62 64 68 68 71 73 71 72 74
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. VeriSign 0.88 53 58 65 65 66 66 66 68 69 71 69 67 68 68 64
Entrust.net Entrust.net 0.62 17 18 34 35 38 40 38 38 38 37 38 42 42 46 45
Network Solutions L.L.C. Network Solutions 0.61 2 9 28 29 29 28 31 32 37 38 41 38 39 39 44
Comodo Limited Comodo 0.61 413 201 215 206 171 143 131 114 89 87 80 71 62 55 44
RSA Data Security, Inc. VeriSign 0.58 555 387 186 170 148 136 120 106 92 89 81 66 55 49 42
IPS Certification Authority s.l. 0.48 18 23 27 30 33 34 35 36 35 36 34 35 36 34 35
GlobalSign nv-sa GlobalSign 0.46 8 11 8 8 6 9 10 11 17 19 21 23 28 31 33
Alpha GlobalSign 0.39 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 5 10 10 12 14 17 21 28
Sonera 0.37 0 1 8 9 9 11 13 15 16 17 17 22 25 25 27
GlobalSign GlobalSign 0.22 0 0 2 3 3 5 10 12 13 13 13 13 16 16 16
SecureTrust Corporation AmbironTrustWave 0.22 0 0 5 5 6 7 9 10 11 11 11 12 13 12 16
Akamai Technologies Inc 0.21 0 3 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 15 16 16 15 14 15
UTN - DATACorp SGC Comodo 0.19 0 0 5 6 10 10 10 11 12 12 12 12 13 14 14
GoDaddy.com, Inc. Go Daddy 0.17 0 0 5 5 7 7 7 7 8 9 9 11 12 12 12
AddTrust AB Comodo 0.17 45 111 75 65 53 37 23 21 20 20 19 19 17 13 12
thawte, Inc. VeriSign 0.15 0 0 5 4 4 4 6 6 7 7 7 6 6 7 11
TC TrustCenter GmbH 0.07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 5
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH 0.04 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 4 3 3
TDC 0.03 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
The USERTRUST Network VeriSign 0.03 43 19 5 6 5 4 4 5 6 6 3 3 3 2 2
Entrust, Inc. Entrust.net 0.03 0 0 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2
GeoTrust Inc VeriSign 0.03 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2
Root CA 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
GlobalSign Inc 0.01 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
CAcert Inc. 0.01 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Cybertrust Inc 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
Secure Business Services, Inc. Comodo 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Unizeto Sp. z o.o. 0.00 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ChainedSSL VeriSign 0.00 4 4 3 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Akamai 0.00 13 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GTE Corporation 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority Comodo 0.00 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
XRamp Security Services Inc AmbironTrustWave 0.00 7 8 5 5 5 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
FreeSSL VeriSign 0.00 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Starfield Technologies, Inc. Go Daddy 0.00 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Deutsche Telekom AG 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0