1. A method comprising: obtaining a DNS query from a client computing device at a DNS server component, wherein the DNS query corresponds to a requested resource associated with a resource identifier; parsing, at the DNS server component, a DNS portion of the associated resource identifier to identify pre-processing information corresponding to the requested resource; resolving the DNS query by selecting a cache server component for providing the requested resource to the client computing device and transmitting information identifying the selected cache server component to the client computing device, wherein the DNS server component and the cache server component are different; and implementing, at the DNS server component, the identified pre-processing information by directly transmitting the pre-processing information from the DNS server component to the selected cache server component or an original content provider in anticipation of a subsequent request by the client computing device to the selected cache server component for the requested resource.