Patent ID: 7093014

Claim:
A system comprising: an address registration database for registering a plurality of address identifiers in response to requests for address identifiers from a plurality of sponsor entities, each address identifier of the plurality of address identifiers being valid in a corresponding domain area of a plurality of domain areas, each domain area of the plurality of domain areas defining a geographic area in which a number of valid address identifiers is restricted, each address identifier of the plurality of address identifiers being unique in the corresponding domain area and identifying a single corresponding URL of a single corresponding website of a corresponding sponsor entity of said plurality of sponsor entities; and an access manager for receiving an address identifier of the plurality of address identifiers from a user terminal that is located in a domain area of the plurality of domain areas, and for searching the address registration database for a corresponding desired URL according to the address identifier and the domain area in which the user terminal is located, and for using the desired URL to cause the user terminal to access a desired website that is specified by the desired URL; wherein the user terminal is a mobile communication terminal; wherein the address registration database is configured such that it is able to register a first address identifier of the plurality of address identifiers as being valid in a first domain area of the plurality of domain areas and as identifying a first URL, and is configured such that it is able to register a second address identifier of the plurality of address identifiers as being valid in a second domain area of the plurality of domain areas and as identifying a second URL, said second address identifier being the same as said first address identifier, said second URL being different from said first URL; wherein the user terminal and the access manager are configured such that, when the user terminal is located in the first domain area and sends the first address identifier to the access manager, the access manager causes the user terminal to access a first website that is specified by the first URL; and wherein the user terminal and the access manager are configured such that, when the user terminal is located in the second domain area and sends the second address identifier to the access manager, the access manager causes the user terminal to access a second website that is specified by the second URL.