SANS ISC Handler Bojan Zdrnja has a great post on the ISC diary about how Google Chrome performs DNS prefetching lookups in order to speed up browsing. I hope you find the post as interesting as I did.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Google+Chrome+and+(weird)+DNS+requests/10312
Adding to Bojan's post I found a tip on how to disable the function:
http://hanxue-it.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-to-disable-dns-prefetching-in.html