Certification Services in Hong Kong (HK)

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 Organisation Certificates in Hong Kong (HK)

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	57.29	852	876	962	966	961	970	977	981	976	971	974	975	977	978	990
Comodo	21.53	85	104	234	258	253	267	273	273	284	304	315	333	342	359	372
Other	15.16	41	148	185	186	195	198	196	203	210	215	223	237	245	249	262
Network Solutions	2.72	8	13	33	36	39	40	41	46	47	48	50	48	48	47	47
Entrust.net	1.79	7	5	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	10	14	16	22	26	31
GlobalSign	1.50	0	31	42	42	43	43	43	44	43	43	41	41	33	27	26

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
VeriSign Trust Network	VeriSign	25.17	387	370	422	420	422	426	428	436	427	425	423	427	423	428	435
VeriSign, Inc.	VeriSign	13.89	3	6	102	114	127	140	153	164	185	203	216	221	228	233	240
Thawte Consulting cc	VeriSign	13.19	204	209	224	224	221	222	225	224	224	221	227	225	230	228	228
Comodo CA Limited	Comodo	12.50	0	0	55	81	89	108	118	123	141	152	165	180	189	200	216
Hongkong Post		7.52	0	105	110	110	114	118	117	120	118	119	119	123	121	124	130
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware	Comodo	6.54	0	33	93	99	91	93	94	98	96	106	108	110	109	112	113
DigiCert Inc		3.82	10	16	36	35	36	38	38	41	43	44	53	55	62	63	66
Network Solutions L.L.C.	Network Solutions	2.72	8	13	33	36	39	40	41	46	47	48	50	48	48	47	47
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.	VeriSign	2.60	55	55	48	48	46	47	47	46	46	48	50	50	49	44	45
Entrust.net	Entrust.net	1.79	7	5	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	10	14	16	22	26	31
RSA Data Security, Inc.	VeriSign	1.74	203	224	151	146	131	121	110	99	82	62	45	40	35	33	30
GlobalSign nv-sa	GlobalSign	1.50	9	31	42	42	43	43	43	44	43	43	41	41	33	27	26
Akamai Technologies Inc		1.16	0	1	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	14	22	19	19	20
IPS Certification Authority s.l.		1.10	3	7	9	10	11	10	10	10	16	17	15	16	18	18	19
UTN - DATACorp SGC	Comodo	0.87	0	0	2	3	3	4	4	2	5	6	6	7	10	14	15
Comodo Limited	Comodo	0.81	72	57	71	62	58	50	43	35	27	26	23	21	20	19	14
Equifax	VeriSign	0.69	11	11	15	14	14	14	14	12	12	12	13	12	12	12	12
AddTrust AB	Comodo	0.58	3	14	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	11	10	10	10
StartCom Ltd.		0.52	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	4	7	7	9
Cybertrust Inc		0.29	0	0	2	2	2	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5
SecureTrust Corporation	AmbironTrustWave	0.23	0	0	5	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4
Trusted Secure Certificate Authority	Comodo	0.17	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.		0.17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	3
XRamp Security Services Inc	AmbironTrustWave	0.12	3	5	4	4	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
GoDaddy.com, Inc.	Go Daddy	0.12	0	0	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	2	2	2	2
GlobalSign Inc		0.06	0	3	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
America Online Inc.		0.06	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Secure Business Services, Inc.	Comodo	0.06	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Starfield Technologies, Inc.	Go Daddy	0.00	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cisco Systems		0.00	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
GlobalTrust	Comodo	0.00	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akamai		0.00	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DIGI-SIGN CERTIFICATION SERVICES LIMITED		0.00	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Disney Enterprises		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Microsoft Secure Server Authority		0.00	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Equifax Secure Inc.	VeriSign	0.00	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0