Photo supplied When Verisign published its latest Domain Name Industry Brief for the first quarter of 2026, one line in the country-code rankings stood out. Australia’s .au sat in eighth place among the world’s country-code domains, ahead of India and just behind France, in a list otherwise dominated by countries many times its size. China, Germany, the UK, Russia, the Netherlands, Brazil and France all outrank it, but only barely, and a country…