The British quickly expressed a desire to use a country designator rather than one of Postel's proposed names, although there was disagreement over whether to use .gb or .uk. Eventually .uk was assigned to Andrew McDowell of University College London -- the first country code delegation.(English)
(Unfortunately, the official designation for [the United Kingdom] under this standard was .gb, not .uk, but it was too late to alter Postel's original assignment.)(English)