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 Organisation 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
VeriSign	53.48	745	953	2519	2529	2525	2552	2559	2603	2700	2818	2860	2443	2520	2591	2629
Comodo	32.30	75	140	1609	1589	1589	1581	1560	1555	1591	1601	1611	1384	1476	1562	1588
Other	14.04	140	127	448	444	445	435	431	447	474	504	506	460	493	537	690
GlobalSign	0.14	0	0	1	1	3	8	12	22	2	3	4	5	5	5	7
Entrust.net	0.02	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Network Solutions	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	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 %	2006	2007	2008												2009
			Jan	Jan	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan
UTN-USERFirst-Hardware	Comodo	30.70	0	96	1524	1514	1520	1507	1490	1488	1522	1527	1536	1315	1392	1477	1509
VeriSign Trust Network	VeriSign	20.46	391	502	1060	1056	1059	1056	1057	1064	1093	1128	1140	975	983	1002	1006
VeriSign, Inc.	VeriSign	18.82	1	6	337	424	476	536	599	692	857	945	954	812	849	888	925
Thawte Consulting cc	VeriSign	10.80	74	85	327	343	351	376	387	411	446	490	519	452	482	508	531
Webtizen Inc.		8.89	0	0	88	112	123	144	163	190	253	308	349	325	357	412	437
Government of Korea		2.60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	128
RSA Data Security, Inc.	VeriSign	1.89	223	293	707	619	555	504	436	357	225	172	166	134	130	120	93
IPS Certification Authority s.l.		1.79	108	119	348	317	305	274	251	236	198	174	136	115	115	103	88
UTN - DATACorp SGC	Comodo	1.24	0	2	69	60	54	54	51	48	51	52	52	53	66	67	61
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.	VeriSign	1.22	56	54	68	67	65	60	60	60	60	64	62	59	62	59	60
eBiz Networks Ltd	Comodo	0.35	0	0	2	4	7	12	14	14	14	18	20	15	17	17	17
Equifax	VeriSign	0.28	9	13	20	20	19	20	20	19	19	19	19	11	14	14	14
Akamai Technologies Inc		0.28	0	2	8	11	13	13	13	14	15	14	13	13	13	14	14
yessign		0.22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
StartCom Ltd.		0.14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	4	3	4	4	7
GlobalSign	GlobalSign	0.14	0	0	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	3	4	5	5	5	7
DigiCert Inc		0.06	0	0	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Network Solutions L.L.C.	Network Solutions	0.02	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Entrust.net	Entrust.net	0.02	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Comodo Limited	Comodo	0.02	75	36	13	11	8	8	5	5	4	4	3	1	1	1	1
KISA		0.02	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Microsoft Secure Server Authority		0.02	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
KICA		0.00	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
beTRUSTed		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akamai		0.00	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
GlobalSign nv-sa	GlobalSign	0.00	0	0	0	0	2	7	10	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
XRamp Security Services Inc	AmbironTrustWave	0.00	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
AddTrust AB	Comodo	0.00	0	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0