1. A method for preserving privacy of a domain name related request, comprising: receiving, at a computer, a client computer request for information related to a domain name, wherein the request comprises at least one tokenized string representing the domain name, wherein the tokenized string was tokenized by a first tokenizing authority computer different from the client computer and operatively coupled to the client computer through a network, wherein the tokenized string was tokenized by a tokenizing authority computer at least in part by application of a cryptographic function, wherein the request comprises a request to determine domain name registration availability; comparing, via the computer, the at least one tokenized string to the store of tokenized strings, wherein the tokenized terms have been tokenized by a second tokenizing authority based on a tokenizing function equivalent to a tokenizing function of the first tokenizing authority, wherein the second tokenizing authority computer is different from the client computer and from the store of tokenized strings; determining if the at least one tokenized string is contained in the store of tokenized strings; and returning an indication whether the at least one tokenized string is contained in the store of tokenized strings.
1. A method for preserving privacy of a domain name related request, comprising: receiving, at a computer, a client computer request for information related to a domain name, wherein the request comprises at least one tokenized string representing the domain name, wherein the tokenized string was tokenized by a first tokenizing authority computer different from the client computer and operatively coupled to the client computer through a network, wherein the tokenized string was tokenized by a tokenizing authority computer at least in part by application of a cryptographic function, wherein the request comprises a request to determine domain name registration availability; comparing, via the computer, the at least one tokenized string to the store of tokenized strings, wherein the tokenized terms have been tokenized by a second tokenizing authority based on a tokenizing function equivalent to a tokenizing function of the first tokenizing authority, wherein the second tokenizing authority computer is different from the client computer and from the store of tokenized strings; determining if the at least one tokenized string is contained in the store of tokenized strings; and returning an indication whether the at least one tokenized string is contained in the store of tokenized strings. 2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information related to a domain name comprises a fully qualified domain name.