17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the result comprises WHOIS information.
12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the steps of: generating, via a first tokenizing authority computer, a tokenized string based on a first tokenizing function and a query string representing a domain name; transmitting, to a server computer, a request for information related to the domain name and comprising the tokenized string, wherein the first tokenizing authority computer is different than the server computer; and receiving a result from the server computer, wherein the result is based on a comparison between the tokenized string and a store of tokenized strings, wherein the tokenized strings in the store have been tokenized by a second tokenizing authority computer based on the first tokenizing function or a tokenizing function equivalent to the first tokenizing function, and the second tokenizing authority computer is different than the server computer.