Certification Services in New Zealand (Aotearoa (NZ)

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 Extended Validation Certificates in New Zealand (Aotearoa (NZ)

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 %	2007	2008												2009
		Jul	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
VeriSign	82.81	2	11	12	12	18	20	22	23	28	33	40	46	53	53
Comodo	12.50	0	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	4	4	6	7	7	8
Other	1.56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Entrust.net	1.56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1
Network Solutions	1.56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Authority	Group	Current %	2007	2008												2009
			Jul	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
VeriSign, Inc.	VeriSign	70.31	1	10	11	11	16	17	19	20	25	30	36	41	45	45
thawte, Inc.	VeriSign	12.50	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	5	8	8
COMODO CA Limited		12.50	0	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	4	4	6	7	7	8
DigiCert Inc		1.56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Network Solutions L.L.C.	Network Solutions	1.56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1
Entrust, Inc.	Entrust.net	1.56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1