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Looks like an American company called Priceline bought booking.com and rename themself after them.

Booking.com brands themself as European, during the DMA debattes and complained they have a disadvantage to American competitors.

Booking.com BV is a Dutch Company which has subsidiaries all over the world but is also itself a subsidiary of Booking Holdings Group which also owns Priceline, Kayak, OpenTable and quite a few more companies.

Company nationality is a somewhat diffuse concept. IKEA, Chrysler, Fiat and Citroen have holding companies in the Netherlands. Should they be considered Dutch companies? Share owners (also of American listed and incorporated companies) are from all over the world.

It depends, right? In case of Booking, aren’t other subsidiaries also selling airline tickets? It would be reasonable for all those sites to have a common platform for data and that means the holding company is the right target to sue.