A method for accessing content in networks, preferably in wide area networks, includes: determining a resource for content by a resource identifier; sending a DNS-query for resolving an IP-address for a host identifier specified as a part of the resource identifier by a client; determining a preferred hosting server hosting the content according to the resource identifier; sending a DNS-response including the IP-address of the determined hosting server to the client; accessing the content from the determined hosting server by the client by providing at least one hosting server identifier or one IP-address corresponding to the resource identifier to a sorting server; sorting the at least one hosting server identifier or IP-address by the sorting server according to client specific information or according to network guiding information provided by the client, determining a preferred hosting server according to the sorted at least one hosting server identifier or IP-address.