Certification Services in Korea (South) (KR)

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 Korea (South) (KR)

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
GlobalSign	51.76	0	0	0	0	2	7	14	21	76	103	135	132	162	202	220
VeriSign	26.82	0	47	158	161	159	148	133	129	125	119	101	77	87	100	114
Other	21.41	0	0	17	17	14	15	15	13	13	9	3	3	2	0	91
Comodo	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
GeoTrust	0.00	31	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
Alpha	GlobalSign	36.00	0	0	0	0	2	7	14	21	43	59	83	82	108	137	153
Equifax Secure Inc.	VeriSign	23.76	31	39	145	149	147	136	121	117	114	105	87	63	74	87	101
KICA		21.41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	91
GlobalSign nv-sa	GlobalSign	15.76	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	44	52	50	54	65	67
Equifax	VeriSign	3.06	0	8	13	12	12	12	12	12	11	14	14	14	13	13	13
StartCom Ltd.		0.00	0	0	17	17	14	15	15	13	13	9	3	3	2	0	0
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware	Comodo	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0