Privacy Preserving Registry Browsing

摘要

A method. system. and computer-readable memory containing instructions include requesting a tokenizing authority to provide a tokenized string that represents a domain name. using the tokenized domain name string to perform a lookup against a database of registered tokenized domain name strings, determining whether the tokenized domain name string exists in the database, and returning results based on the existence of tokenized domain name strings and optionally variants thereof. The method, system, and computer-readable memory may further include returning an encryption key corresponding to an encrypted record of information related to the domain name corresponding to the tokenized domain name string.

主权项

1. A method for preserving privacy of a domain name related request, comprising:
receiving a client computer request for information related to determine domain name registration availability that comprises at least one tokenized string representing the domain name, wherein the tokenized string was tokenized by a tokenizing authority computer different from the client computer and operatively coupled to the client computer through a network; comparing the at least one tokenized string to a store of tokenized strings, wherein the tokenized strings in the store have been tokenized by a second tokenizing authority based on a tokenizing function equivalent to a tokenizing function of the first tokenizing authority; determining whether 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.