Uniform Resource Locator

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A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) commonly refers to a link on the World Wide Web. URLs usually start with http://, e.g. this page's URL is http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator. In this example, the en.citizendium.org is a DNS name.