VeriSign leads SSL market

NEW DELHI,INDIA:VeriSign, Inc.,has 44.4 percent share in the global SSL marketplace, according to the latest Netcraft survey of publicly facing SSL Certificates on the Internet.

The June Netcraft survey includes the most comprehensive and accurate view of the SSL market ever. The survey found a total of 1,502,281 distinct valid third-party SSL Certificates, 667,429 of which feature SSL Certificates provided by VeriSign and its brands.

Due to the June survey’s more complete accounting of the SSL market overall, VeriSign’s market share in the June report is 44.4 percent, compared to the 38.1 percent share Netcraft assigned to VeriSign in May. VeriSign’s share of the Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificate market also rose in June, with VeriSign brands providing 72.2 percent of the 26,387 EV SSL Certificates in use on the Internet.

“The Netcraft June 2010 survey offers the most complete snapshot of the SSL market to date, showing not only that VeriSign has maintained its SSL leadership, but that our market share has been higher than previous surveys indicated,” said Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign. "As Netcraft has access to more hostnames data, they will be able to report more accurate market share figures, which we believe will continue to be very favorable for VeriSign."