Whois & Analysis for flipkey.com

FlipKey is an online vacation rental marketplace.

In 2015 it lists more than 300,000 properties in 179 countries worldwide.

Its headquarters is in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

A condominium, usually shortened to condo, is a type of real estate divided into several units that are each separately owned, surrounded by common areas jointly owned.

A vacation rental is the renting out of a furnished apartment, house, or professionally managed resort-condominium complex on a temporary basis to tourists as an alternative to a hotel.

The term vacation rental is mainly used in the US.

In Europe the term villa rental or villa holiday is preferred for rentals of detached houses in warm climates.

Other terms used are self-catering rentals, holiday homes, holiday lets (in the United Kingdom), cottage holidays (for rentals of smaller accommodation in rural locations) and gites (in rural locations in France).

A house is a building that functions as a home, ranging from simple dwellings such as rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes and the improvised shacks in shantytowns to complex, fixed structures of wood, brick, concrete or other materials containing plumbing, ventilation and electrical systems.

Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space.

Houses may have doors or locks to secure the dwelling space and protect its inhabitants and contents from burglars or other trespassers.

Most conventional modern houses in Western cultures will contain one or more bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen or cooking area, and a living room.

A house may have a separate dining room, or the eating area may be integrated into another room.

Some large houses in North America have a recreation room.

In traditional agriculture-oriented societies, domestic animals such as chickens or larger livestock (like cattle) may share part of the house with humans.

The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household.

A holiday cottage, holiday home, or vacation property is accommodation used for holiday vacations.

Such properties are typically small homes, such as cottages, that vacationers can rent and run as if it were their own home for the duration of their stay.

The properties may be owned by those using them for a vacation, in which case the term second home applies; or may be rented out to holidaymakers through an agency.