airbnb.com — domain analysis
airbnb.com describes itself as "Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide". It was registered in 2008, served from Seattle, United States. It has a valid HTTPS certificate, 4 of 6 common security headers, 1 tracking script.
What is airbnb.com about?
The words appearing most often on the homepage, excluding common filler, are
a rough indication of subject matter rather than a description of the business:
- typename ×1529
- null ×1440
- title ×682
- searchparams ×641
- link ×603
- explorenavigationlinkitem ×602
- description ×602
- urltype ×602
- rentals ×497
- stays ×497
Does airbnb.com publish the usual trust pages?
Found: about, privacy. Not found at the usual addresses:
contact, terms.
These were checked at conventional paths only, so a site using different URLs may
publish them elsewhere.
How does airbnb.com compare with other domains analysed here?
Measured against the 11 domains in this index. This is a
small, self-selected sample — the domains people happened to look up — not a
representative sample of the web.
| Response time | Faster than 27% of them (median 814ms) |
|---|---|
| Security headers | More than 50% of them |
| Domain age | Older than 50% of them |
Related domains in this index
Other analysed domains served from the same country:
When was airbnb.com registered?
airbnb.com was registered on 5 August 2008, which makes it about 18 years old.
A registration this old means the domain has been renewed repeatedly, which costs money every year and is not something abandoned or disposable projects tend to do.
The registrar of record is MarkMonitor Inc..
Registration runs until 5 August 2028.
The domain carries 6 registry locks, which blocks unauthorised transfer or deletion.
| Registered | 5 August 2008 |
|---|---|
| Expires | 5 August 2028 |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Registry status | client delete prohibited, client transfer prohibited, client update prohibited, server delete prohibited, server transfer prohibited, server update prohibited |
Where is airbnb.com hosted?
The first address resolves to infrastructure in Seattle, United States.
The network is operated by AWS Global Accelerator (GLOBAL) (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.).
Hosting location describes where the responding server sits, not where the business is. A CDN will report its nearest edge rather than the origin.
What is airbnb.com running on?
No platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup of airbnb.com. That usually means hand-written HTML, an uncommon stack, or a page assembled entirely at the edge.
No recognisable platform, framework or analytics fingerprints were found in the homepage markup.
How does the homepage respond?
The server answered with HTTP 200 over
HTTPS.
At 963ms to first byte this response is slow for a homepage measured from a single European location.
The HTML alone is 602KB before images, stylesheets or scripts are counted, which is heavy for a document that browsers must parse before anything renders.
The HTML is compressed with gzip.
| Server header | nginx |
|---|---|
| Compression | gzip |
| Page size | 616,447 bytes |
| Declared language | en |
| Mobile viewport | declared |
What does the homepage say about itself?
The title runs to 74 characters, so search results will truncate it and the end of the sentence will not be read.
A meta description of 132 characters is present.
1 of 1 images carry no alt attribute, which leaves them unreadable to screen readers and uninterpretable to image search.
| Title | Airbnb: Vacation Rentals, Cabins, Beach Houses, Unique Homes & Experiences (74 chars) |
|---|---|
| Meta description | Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide (132 chars) |
| H1 | Airbnb homepage (1 on the page) |
| Canonical | https://www.airbnb.com/ |
| Open Graph title | Airbnb | Vacation rentals, cabins, beach houses, & more |
| Headings / images | 3 H2s, 1 images (1 without alt text) |
Is airbnb.com served over a valid certificate?
The HTTPS certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and is
valid until 2026-10-22, which is 18 days from the date of this check. It covers
78 hostnames.
- airbnb.com
- airbnb.at
- airbnb.com.mt
- airbnb.com.ar
- airbnb.com.ee
- airbnb.com.ph
- dr.airbnb.com
- airbnb.dk
- airbnb.com.py
- airbnb.com.co
- airbnb.rs
- airbnb.lu
The certificate has 18 days left to run.
It covers 78 hostnames, which is characteristic of a shared or platform-issued certificate rather than one bought for this domain alone.
Which security headers does it set?
4 of 6 are set (HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options). Absent: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
| Header | Set | Value |
|---|---|---|
| HSTS | yes | max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload |
| Content Security Policy | yes | child-src blob:; connect-src 'self' https: wss://ws.airbnb.com wss://ws.airbnb.com https://netverify.com https://*.netve |
| X-Content-Type-Options | yes | nosniff |
| X-Frame-Options | yes | SAMEORIGIN |
| Referrer-Policy | no | — |
| Permissions-Policy | no | — |
How is DNS configured for airbnb.com?
| IP addresses | 166.117.189.176, 166.117.27.62 |
|---|---|
| Reverse DNS | a333dda39e3b496ea.awsglobalaccelerator.com, a333dda39e3b496ea.awsglobalaccelerator.com |
| Name servers | dns3.p08.nsone.net, dns4.p08.nsone.net, ns-1453.awsdns-53.org, ns-1932.awsdns-49.co.uk, ns-474.awsdns-59.com, ns-558.awsdns-05.net, dns1.p08.nsone.net, dns2.p08.nsone.net |
| Mail (MX) | alt1.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), alt2.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 5), alt3.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), alt4.aspmx.l.google.com (pri 10), aspmx.l.google.com (pri 1) |
| SPF | v=spf1 include:spf1.airbnb.com ip6:2c0f:fb50:4864::/56 ip6:2a00:1450:4864::/56 ip6:2800:3f0:4864::/56 ip6:2607:f8b0:4864::/56 ip6:2404:6800:4864::/56 ip6:2001:4860:4864::/56 ip4:98.77.0.0/16 ip4:87.253.232.0/21 ip4:76.223.176.0/20 ip4:76.223.128.0/19 -all |
| TXT records | 40 |
airbnb.com resolves to 2 addresses, which indicates load balancing or a CDN rather than a single origin server.
Mail is handled by 5 exchangers.
An SPF record is published, giving receiving servers a rule for which hosts may send as this domain.
Reverse DNS resolves to a333dda39e3b496ea.awsglobalaccelerator.com, a333dda39e3b496ea.awsglobalaccelerator.com, which usually names the hosting provider.
Who runs DNS and mail for airbnb.com?
DNS is operated by Amazon Route 53 rather than self-hosted name servers.
Mail is handled by Google Workspace.
No AAAA records are published, so the site is reachable over IPv4 only.
What else is worth noting about airbnb.com?
40 of 40 externally hosted scripts carry no subresource integrity hash. If one of those hosts were compromised, the replacement script would run with full access to the page.
1 email address appears in the homepage markup, where address-harvesting crawlers will find it.
Can airbnb.com be spoofed in email?
DMARC is set to reject, the strictest setting: mail that fails authentication is refused outright. This is the configuration that actually stops domain spoofing.
CAA records restrict certificate issuance to 4 named authorities (iodef mailto:[email protected], issue digicert.com, issue letsencrypt.org, issue pki.goog), so no other CA should be able to issue for this domain.
The zone is not DNSSEC-signed. That is still the norm for most domains, but it means DNS answers cannot be cryptographically verified.
What else does airbnb.com publish?
A security.txt file is published, giving security researchers a documented way to report vulnerabilities. Very few sites bother.
What does robots.txt allow?
robots.txt is 20,930 bytes and names
18 user-agent groups.
It does not blanket-disallow general crawlers.
Sitemaps declared:
- https://www.airbnb.com/sitemap-master-index.xml.gz
AI crawler policy
| Crawler | Policy |
|---|---|
| gptbot | blocked |
| claudebot | blocked |
| perplexitybot | allowed |
| applebot-extended | blocked |
| anthropic-ai | allowed |
1 sitemap is declared in robots.txt, which gives crawlers a direct list of URLs.
AI crawler policy is selective: gptbot, claudebot, applebot-extended blocked, perplexitybot, anthropic-ai allowed.
What structured data does the homepage publish?
- WebSite
- SearchAction
The homepage publishes 2 structured data types: WebSite, SearchAction.
What does airbnb.com load from third parties?
The homepage pulls resources from 82 third-party hosts (a0.muscache.com, airbnb.ae, airbnb.am, airbnb.at, airbnb.az, airbnb.ba). Each one sees the visitor IP and user agent on every page load.
8 cookies are set before any interaction (_user_attributes, _user_attributes, bev, _user_attributes, datadome).
| Cookie | Secure | HttpOnly | SameSite |
|---|---|---|---|
| _user_attributes | yes | no | none/unset |
| _user_attributes | yes | no | none/unset |
| bev | yes | no | none/unset |
| _user_attributes | yes | no | none/unset |
| datadome | yes | no | lax |
| everest_cookie | yes | no | none/unset |
| bev | yes | no | none/unset |
| country | yes | no | none/unset |
Does airbnb.com settle on one address?
Plain HTTP redirects to HTTPS, so visitors who type the bare address still land on the secure version.
Both airbnb.com and www.airbnb.com answer with 200 and neither redirects to the other. Search engines therefore see two complete copies of the site, and link equity is split between them unless a canonical tag resolves it.
How easily can airbnb.com be crawled?
A sitemap index is served at https://www.airbnb.com/sitemap-master-index.xml.gz listing 176 entries.
The most recent lastmod date is 2026-10-04.
A deliberately invalid URL correctly returns HTTP 404, so missing pages will not be indexed.
What tracking does airbnb.com run?
1 tracking script detected: Meta Pixel.
A consent platform is in place (OneTrust), so in the EU and UK these should only fire after the visitor agrees.
How does airbnb.com look when shared?
All five social preview tags are present, so links shared to social platforms and chat apps will render with a title, description and image.
The page declares 96 hreflang alternates (en, es-US, zh-US, de, it, es-ES, fr, pt, da, en-GB, ru, pl), so it targets more than one language or region.
How are images, fonts and scripts handled?
1 image on the homepage, 0 of them lazy-loaded (0%).
All image references use JPEG, PNG or GIF. WebP or AVIF typically cut image weight substantially at the same visual quality.
The page pulls 1 external stylesheet and 40 external scripts, with 4 carrying defer or async.
No preconnect hints are declared despite third-party scripts being present, so each new origin pays a full connection setup before it can deliver anything.
Is airbnb.com accessible and current?
The page uses 3 landmark elements and 133 ARIA attributes.
There are 1 form inputs but only 0 label elements, so some fields may be unlabelled for screen readers.
Can search engines index airbnb.com?
Nothing on the homepage prevents indexing: no noindex is set in the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
The homepage carries 10 internal and 0 external links across 0 outside hosts.
Visible text makes up 37.6% of the HTML.
How is airbnb.com delivered?
The HTML is served with Cache-Control: no-store, max-age=0, private, must-revalidate.
HTTP/3 is advertised via alt-svc, so modern browsers will upgrade to QUIC after the first visit.
A web app manifest is declared, so the site is installable as a progressive web app.
The TLS certificate also covers 1 subdomain: dr.airbnb.com.
- dr.airbnb.com
Frequently asked questions
Does airbnb.com set the usual HTTP security headers?
It sets 4 of 6. The ones not present are: Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Does airbnb.com allow AI crawlers?
No — robots.txt blocks gptbot, claudebot, applebot-extended.
Where does this data come from?
Every figure was measured by our own server on 4 October 2026: DNS lookups, one HTTPS request to the homepage, a TLS handshake and a request for robots.txt. No third-party SEO API is involved.
Is any of this traffic or authority data?
No. Traffic, authority and ranking figures cannot be measured by inspecting a domain, only modelled. Everything here is a direct observation.
I own airbnb.com and want this page removed.
Ask through the contact page on this site, from an address at the domain, and the report will be taken down. It only ever shows what the domain already serves publicly.
Analysed 4 October 2026.
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