April 8, 2005 ? (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Certification authority Comodo (comodo.com) announced on Friday that according to an April 2005 SSL survey by Netcraft (netcraft.com), Comodo has expanded at three times the rate of its nearest high assurance competitor over the past six months.
Netcraft’s SSL survey showed that one in four SSL sites uses ?domain validated? certificates rather than “organization validated” certificates. While three out of four sites run on organization validated certificates – usually from Comodo or VeriSign – domain validated certificates have grown at twice the rate of organization validated certificates over the past six months.
The revised format survey follows the trend initiated by Opera software in February 2005 to provide customers with critical information concerning the SSL certificate. In the past, browsers had been unable to tell the difference between high assurance, fully validated certificates, and low assurance domain-only validated certificates.
Now that consumers can easily differentiate assurance levels, says Comodo, they are less susceptible to Internet fraud. The company also says that e-commerce sites that use low assurance certificates are losing out to those using high assurance certificates.
