1. A method of creating a Unified Geographic Database (UGD) by registering a proprietary name for a geographical location of an entity, the method comprising: receiving geographical location information for an entity; receiving a proprietary name for the entity; geocoding the geographical location information into a hierarchical address; storing the proprietary name, hierarchical address, and geographical location information as a record in the Unified Geographic Database; and converting the proprietary name into a domain-name like, proprietary locational address based on the geographical location information, and the proprietary name, and storing the proprietary locational address as the proprietary name in the record, wherein converting the proprietary name into a domain-name like, proprietary locational address includes determining a regional or local grid having a centroid closest to the geographical location of the business or entity, the regional grid represented by an A.B.C naming format, where A represents a country, B represents a state or province, and C represents a city, and prefixing this A.B.C format to the proprietary name to create the domain-name like proprietary locational address.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein static location-related data for the entity is stored in the record.