Australia’s .au domain just cracked the global top ten

Australia’s .au domain just cracked the global top ten

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…