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Presumably they convinced them by paying them money. :D And if they didn't do it, someone else would have.

It seems IdenTrust has not been killed off.

    1  IdenTrust  48.5%  53.6%
    2  DigiCert Group  13.1%  14.5%
    3  Sectigo (Comodo Cybersecurity)  12.1%  13.4%
    4  GlobalSign  6.1%  6.7%
    5  Let's Encrypt  5.8%  6.4%
    6  GoDaddy Group  4.8%  5.3%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority


Those numbers are misleading. IdenTrust has always been a small CA in terms of volume. The large percentage you see for them there is actually Let's Encrypt volume counted as IdenTrust because of the cross-sign. The Let's Encrypt percentage there is from sites not using the cross-sign. Add them together and that is basically Let's Encrypt's total volume, as IdenTrust itself is likely < 1%.




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