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According to an aspect, there is provided an application server for an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem, IMS, network. The application server maintains, in a database, a plurality of entries for a plurality of subscribers of a display name service. Each entry comprises a phone number and a display name of a subscriber. The application server receives, from a node of the IMS network, a session initiation request. The application server determines whether a calling party has subscribed to the display name service by searching the database based on a phone number of the calling party. In response to finding, from the database, an entry comprising the phone number, the application server appends the display name comprised in the entry to at least one part of the session initiation request to be displayed to the called party, and routes the session initiation request to the node of the IMS network.