The UK got the .gb domain because it's the correct country code. The .uk domain came about because it was in use on the Janet academic network, shortly before a

The UK got the .gb domain because it's the correct country code. The .uk domain came about because it was in use on the Janet academic network, shortly before all the networks were smooshed together to make the internet. It was probably expected that everyone would eventually move to .gb, but nothing ever gets fixed in computing...