Booking.com
Amsterdam-based accommodation platform offering 4 million+ properties in 220+ countries. Dutch entity (Booking.com B.V.) but owned by US-listed Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG). Founded in Amsterdam in 1996, acquired by Priceline in 2005.
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Booking.com B.V. is headquartered in Amsterdam and legally domiciled in the Netherlands.
Booking.com is owned by Booking Holdings Inc., listed on NASDAQ and headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Booking.com's infrastructure is a mix of cloud providers across the Netherlands and the EU, though its US parent brings some CLOUD Act exposure.
Booking.com isn't open source and hasn't published independent third-party audits.
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