How many companies use GlobalSign?
As of October 2026, 53,506 companies show public evidence of using GlobalSign across the 1,791,213 company domains runsonwhat tracks. That makes GlobalSign the fourth most used of the 156 Security & Compliance tools with confirmed customers, behind Let's Encrypt (54,515). The number is a lower bound: a company counts only when a public record, such as a DNS entry or GlobalSign's code on its website, shows the tool in use.
Which companies use GlobalSign?
Companies that use GlobalSign include Fastly, Yahoo, MSN, Vimeo and Apache, according to runsonwhat's public-record scans (October 2026). The biggest industries among GlobalSign customers are IT services (15%) and financial services (9.2%). The full list of 53,506 companies can be filtered by industry, company size and country on runsonwhat's GlobalSign page.
What industries use GlobalSign the most?
The industries with the most GlobalSign customers are IT services (15%), financial services (9.2%) and retail (7.8%), based on the 25,139 companies with a known industry. Relative to all companies runsonwhat tracks, GlobalSign stands out most in financial services (1.4× the average rate).
Is GlobalSign more popular with startups or large companies?
GlobalSign is used mostly by mid-size companies: of the 40,717 companies with a known size, 41% have up to 50 employees, 45% have 51 to 1,000 and 14% have more than 1,000. Compared with all companies runsonwhat tracks, GlobalSign is 4.6× as common among companies with 10,000+ employees.
Which countries use GlobalSign the most?
Most GlobalSign customers runsonwhat has found are based in the United States (26%), Brazil (12%) and the United Kingdom (7.1%), out of 38,266 companies with a known country. Outside the United States, the biggest markets are Brazil and the United Kingdom.
Is GlobalSign gaining or losing customers?
In the 90 days to October 2026, 53 companies started using GlobalSign and 29 companies stopped, a net gain of 24. runsonwhat counts a start or a stop only between two checks of the same company done the same way, so a change in how a site is scanned never shows up as churn.
What are the most popular alternatives to GlobalSign?
By the number of companies using them, the most used Security & Compliance tools other than GlobalSign are reCAPTCHA (261,916), Cookiebot (63,141), Let's Encrypt (54,515) and CookieYes (50,388), according to runsonwhat (October 2026). Not every tool in a category does the same job, so check each one's page; runsonwhat ranks all Security & Compliance tools at https://www.runsonwhat.com/tools/security-compliance.
What other tools do GlobalSign customers use?
GlobalSign customers use Imperva, DigiCert and Google Trust Services far more often than the average company. For example, 6.4% of GlobalSign customers also run Imperva, 15× the rate among all companies runsonwhat tracks, and 15% run DigiCert.
How does runsonwhat know a company uses GlobalSign?
runsonwhat reads public records only. For GlobalSign, that means a domain-verification record for GlobalSign in the company's DNS or GlobalSign on the company's own subprocessor list. A company is listed only when one of these direct records is present, and each match keeps the record it came from. DNS is rechecked weekly and websites about monthly.
ImpervaSecurity & Compliance15×more likely
DigiCertSecurity & Compliance5.2×more likely
Google Trust ServicesSecurity & Compliance4.9×more likely
SectigoSecurity & Compliance4.7×more likely
Amazon Trust ServicesSecurity & Compliance4.3×more likely
Let's EncryptSecurity & Compliance4.0×more likely
AkamaiCDN & Edge3.3×more likely
DocuSignFinance & Legal3.2×more likely
OneTrustSecurity & Compliance3.1×more likely
AtlassianDev Tools2.4×more likely
Apple BusinessWorkspace1.8×more likely
SendGridEmail Delivery1.5×more likely