Communication system and method

Disclosed is a user terminal for establishing communication between a first and second user over a communications network. The second user is associated with contact information for a plurality of destination nodes. The user terminal is comprised of means for displaying a display to the first user, said display comprising a hyperlink containing an identity allocated to the contact information for the plurality of destination nodes from a set of available identities. The hyperlink does not contain the contact information of the second user. The user terminal also includes means for selecting said hyperlink and a client executed on the user terminal arranged to transmit a message to initiate communication over said communications network. The message comprises said identity and is received at a network node arranged to translate said identity to said contact information for the plurality of destination nodes, select one or more destination nodes from the plurality of destination nodes, and establish a connection over the communications network between the client and the selected one or more destination nodes using said contact information. When more than one destination node is selected, the connection is established with all of the destination nodes simultaneously and the client is connected to the first destination node answered by the user and connection to the remaining selected destination nodes is discontinued.