Whois & Analysis for hostelz.com

Booking.com is one of the largest online travel agencies.

It is headquartered in Amsterdam, and is a subsidiary of Booking Holdings.

In 2022, the company's mobile app was the most downloaded mobile app in the travel agency category.

As of December 31, 2022, Booking.com offered lodging reservation services for approximately 2.7 million properties, including 400,000 hotels, motels, and resorts and 2.3 million homes, apartments in over 220 countries and in over 40 languages.

It also offers flights in 54 markets and tours and activities in more than 1,200 cities.

1-Click, also called one-click or one-click buying, is the technique of allowing customers to make purchases with the payment information needed to complete the purchase having been entered by the user previously.

More particularly, it allows an online shopper using an Internet marketplace to purchase an item without having to use shopping cart software.

Instead of manually inputting billing and shipping information for a purchase, a user can use one-click buying to use a predefined address and credit card number to purchase one or more items.

Since the expiration of Amazon's patent, there has been an advent of checkout experience platforms, such as ShopPay, Simpler, PeachPay, Zplit, and Bolt which offer similar one-click checkout flows.

A comparison shopping website, sometimes called a price comparison website, price analysis tool, comparison shopping agent, shopbot, aggregator or comparison shopping engine, is a vertical search engine that shoppers use to filter and compare products based on price, features, reviews and other criteria.

Most comparison shopping sites aggregate product listings from many different retailers but do not directly sell products themselves, instead earning money from affiliate marketing agreements.

In the United Kingdom, these services made between £780m and £950m in revenue in 2005.

Hence, E-commerce accounted for an 18.2 percent share of total business turnover in the United Kingdom in 2012.

Online sales already account for 13% of the total UK economy, and its expected to increase to 15% by 2017.

There is a huge contribution of comparison shopping websites in the expansion of the current E-commerce industry.

Hotels.com, L.P.

is an American website for booking hotel rooms online and by telephone.

The company has 85 websites in 34 languages, and lists over 325,000 hotels in approximately 19,000 locations.

Its inventory includes hotels and B&Bs, and some condos and other types of commercial lodging.

Hotels.com was established in 1991 as the Hotel Reservations Network (HRN).

In 2001, it became part of Expedia, Inc. and in 2002, changed its name to Hotels.com.

The company is operated by Hotels.com LP, a limited partnership subsidiary located in Dallas, Texas, in the United States.