When you enter a URL into a web browser, your browser then looks up the IP address of the domain name using a tool called an Domain Name Server (DNS). The DNS is like a phone book used by every ...

You know what a URL does, but can you explain what URL stands for? We have the answer. You may already know that a URL is another way of saying “web address.” We all go to web addresses every ...

The Pure URL extension for Chrome and Firefox makes web addresses that appear in your browser easier to read and less of a potential security risk. Hassle-Free PC By Ian Paul , Feb 9, 2016 5:00 am PST ...

Fortunately, it is easy to expand the URL address bar on all of the major Web browsers, namely Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, so you have room to type long addresses.

Google wants to fix one of the web's oldest and deepest technologies: the uniform resource locator, or URL, used to give every website a unique address. "People have a really hard time ...

Web addresses must consist of letters, numbers and a very limited set of punctuation marks, most of which divide up the addresses into their specialized component parts, such as the prefix -- the ...

A crop of Web sites have sprung up with the mission of making long, easily breakable Web addresses shorter--and at least one of them is trying to make money at the idea. In some e-mail programs ...

After building its search empire by indexing all the web pages on the internet and their corresponding web addresses, Google is undergoing an existential crisis. The company proposes that to make ...

The changes were rolled out with Chrome 69, alongside a plethora of other changes, in a bid to simplify things for users, making it easier for them to see where they are on the web at a glance.

Norwegian Air Shuttle did just that with its new emoji-only URL, reports AdWeek, creating a web address that replaces traditional lettering with emojis. The airline launched this URL for a very ...