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 Domain-Validated Certificates 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.
Domain-Validated Certificates in Australia (AU) — current 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).
Domain-Validated Certificates in Australia (AU) — share over time
| Authority | Current % |
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Jan | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | ||
| VeriSign | 99.28 | 0 | 4134 | 6021 | 6147 | 6255 | 6354 | 6549 | 6769 | 6969 | 7152 | 7457 | 7643 | 7844 | 8080 | 8330 |
| GlobalSign | 0.48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 28 | 33 | 40 |
| Other | 0.19 | 38 | 70 | 86 | 80 | 81 | 66 | 62 | 60 | 55 | 47 | 37 | 31 | 25 | 20 | 16 |
| Comodo | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| GeoTrust | 0.00 | 2854 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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.
Domain-Validated Certificates in Australia (AU) — 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 | 80.27 | 2512 | 3748 | 4957 | 5052 | 5111 | 5191 | 5309 | 5477 | 5617 | 5761 | 6012 | 6164 | 6336 | 6543 | 6735 |
| Equifax | VeriSign | 18.83 | 46 | 319 | 1029 | 1068 | 1121 | 1145 | 1211 | 1267 | 1327 | 1358 | 1418 | 1444 | 1479 | 1522 | 1580 |
| GlobalSign nv-sa | GlobalSign | 0.31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 26 |
| Alpha | GlobalSign | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 14 |
| Root CA | 0.12 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| The USERTRUST Network | VeriSign | 0.10 | 264 | 59 | 30 | 21 | 18 | 13 | 23 | 18 | 18 | 26 | 20 | 28 | 22 | 8 | 8 |
| Thawte Consulting cc | VeriSign | 0.08 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| StartCom Ltd. | 0.07 | 33 | 68 | 78 | 72 | 71 | 57 | 53 | 51 | 46 | 38 | 28 | 21 | 15 | 10 | 6 | |
| Comodo CA Limited | Comodo | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| UTN-USERFirst-Hardware | Comodo | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ChainedSSL | VeriSign | 0.00 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FreeSSL | VeriSign | 0.00 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |