Certification Services in Canada (CA)

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 Canada (CA)

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.

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).

Authority	Current %	2006	2007	2008												2009
		Jan	Jan	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
VeriSign	99.38	0	7594	9658	9706	9820	9960	10070	10207	10357	10459	10554	10667	10798	10904	11051
GlobalSign	0.45	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	10	14	21	17	28	41	50
Other	0.15	45	91	108	101	103	98	91	76	67	66	55	44	29	26	17
Comodo	0.02	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
GeoTrust	0.00	6174	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.

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	75.51	5610	6612	7207	7267	7342	7455	7533	7627	7759	7859	7926	8029	8148	8263	8397
Equifax	VeriSign	23.78	106	889	2410	2395	2432	2474	2502	2544	2567	2572	2597	2605	2622	2629	2644
Alpha	GlobalSign	0.31	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	4	6	7	7	16	24	34
StartCom Ltd.		0.15	45	91	108	101	103	98	91	76	67	66	55	44	29	26	17
GlobalSign nv-sa	GlobalSign	0.14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	8	14	10	12	17	16
The USERTRUST Network	VeriSign	0.08	404	86	38	41	43	30	34	35	29	26	29	32	27	11	9
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware	Comodo	0.02	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
Thawte Consulting cc	VeriSign	0.01	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
ChainedSSL	VeriSign	0.00	34	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
FreeSSL	VeriSign	0.00	20	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0