cert-governance · severity low
Certificate lifetime
Share of certificates issued for longer than the 47-day maximum lifetime.
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How it is measured
Tier 1. Validity window of the serving certificate. Denominator: has_web.
Why it matters
The CA/Browser Forum is phasing certificate lifetimes down to 47 days. Any domain still on long-lived certificates has a manual renewal process that is about to break several times a year — a deadline-driven quiet failure that has not fired yet.
The base rate
Two independent populations. The global, domain-anchored figure is unbiased; the company-anchored figures are built by matching company names to domains and skew toward more digitally-mature firms. Both are published, so the gap is visible.
By company size band
Company-anchored cuts (national registries with a size proxy), split by size band. Right-hand figure is the share not meeting the control.
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