Question

How email address and URL are different from each other ? Explain with suitable example.

Answer 1

A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is web-speak for address. It is the address of a web page and contains several elements. An email address identifies an account on a mail server. Quite often an email server has the same domain name as the web site. The major difference between a URL and an email address is that the email address always has an "at"sign ("@") and a URL never does.

Answer 2

• URL is Uniform Resource Locator. email is Address of Electronic Mail URL is the web address of a web page while email is used to send electronic messages to each other using computer networks.
• In the email @ is used which is not present in any URL.
• The email address is often used in lower case, while websites or web address are written in mixed letters.
• email is always used to receive electronic mails while web address is not used to receive any mails.
• A web address is used to access a website where information can be found while email is not used to get any information.
• URL can directly be typed in browser to access web site/page whereas email Address can not be browsed as web site/page
• Examples: URL: abc.com, cbse.nic.in, ncert.nic.in/NCERTS/textbook/textbook.htm
• E mail: [email protected]