what is url?

Answer 1

It is really short for an Address much like the one you have where you live.
It is used to direct your usage to your particular computer by way of your numeric IP address, and the same for where you visit and your e-mail.
That address is how it knows where to send and recieve any communication.
Don

Answer 2

Well, the other have covered the basics, so I thought of adding some more info to it. This is excellent for your own knowledge.

A URL (Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal Resource Locator) - usually pronounced by sounding out each letter but, in some quarters, pronounced "Earl" - is the unique address for a file that is accessible on the Internet. A common way to get to a Web site is to enter the URL of its home page file in your Web browser's address line. However, any file within that Web site can also be specified with a URL. Such a file might be any Web (HTML) page other than the home page, an image file, or a program such as a common gateway interface application or Java applet. The URL contains the name of the protocol to be used to access the file resource, a domain name that identifies a specific computer on the Internet, and a pathname, a hierarchical description that specifies the location of a file in that computer.
On the Web (which uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP), an example of a URL is:


http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

which specifies the use of a HTTP (Web browser) application, a unique computer named www.ietf.org, and the location of a text file or page to be accessed on that computer whose pathname is /rfc/rfc2396.txt.
A URL for a particular image on a Web site might look like this:

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/WhatIs/images/coaxla.gif

A URL for a file meant to be downloaded using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) would require that the "ftp" protocol be specified like this hypothetical URL:

ftp://www.somecompany.com/whitepapers/widgets.ps

Answer 3

Universal Resource Locator.

Answer 4

URL stand for uniform resource locater - It is required to find the any site on the server with the help of any browser like internet explorer, Mozilla, opera etc..

http://www.icreonglobal.com

Answer 5

uniform resource identifier or just normal url addresses.

Answer 6

Uniform Resource Locator

go to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url

for more info