GeoTrust

Geotrust
Product typePublic key certificates
OwnerDigiCert
CountryUnited States
MarketsWorld
Websitewww.geotrust.com

GeoTrust is a digital certificate provider. The GeoTrust brand was bought by Symantec from Verisign in 2010, but agreed to sell the certificate business (including GeoTrust) in August 2017 to private equity and growth capital firm Thoma Bravo LLC.[1] GeoTrust was the first certificate authority[2] to use the domain-validated certificate method which accounts for 70 percent of all SSL certificates on the Internet.[3][4] By 2006, GeoTrust was the 2nd largest certificate authority in the world with 26.7 percent market share according to independent survey company Netcraft.[5]

  1. ^ Liana B. Baker (2017-08-02). "Symantec to sell Web certificates business to Thoma Bravo: sources". Reuters. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  2. ^ Aumasson, J.P. (2017). Serious Cryptography: A Practical Introduction to Modern Encryption. No Starch Press. p. 429. ISBN 978-1-59327-882-3. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  3. ^ √https://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/ssl-survey/
  4. ^ "Top SSL Certificates Buyer's Guide". PCMAG.
  5. ^ "VeriSign To Buy GeoTrust, Combining Top SSL Providers". Netcraft News.