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booking.com
🌐Web popularity #259 🏷 Travel 🇳🇱Netherlands 📥 Inbox 78%

Booking uses SendGrid as their primary email service provider. They're the #259 most-visited website overall, per Tranco (a web-popularity measure, not an email one). We've also observed sends via SparkPost. Email goes out from 2 different subdomains. Their email authentication setup is solid (score 100/100). We've recorded 1 ESP change since first observing this brand.

Transactional ESPSendGrid
Total observations62
Active days24
Avg per active day2.6
Last activity📬 Active · 8 days ago
Cadence~every 2 weeks
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Email setup 100/100

Authentication signals observed in this brand's emails. SPF, DKIM and DMARC are the standard sender-authentication stack — see the DMARC policy below for whether spoofing is actually blocked or just monitored. One-click unsubscribe meets Google & Yahoo's bulk-sender requirements.

Strong email setup
Authentication is in good shape — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC enforcement all configured.
100/100
SPF
pass
DKIM
pass
DMARC
pass (reject)
BIMI
verified VMC
Unsubscribe
one-click
SPF lookups 2/10

SPF / DKIM / DMARC above reflect the last 10 emails we've observed. DMARC policy is read live from DNS.

Authentication

DMARC reports sent to proofpoint.com. Policy p=reject means receivers actively block or quarantine spoofed mail.

SPF alignment: all 48 observed emails use a return-path aligned with booking.com (sg.booking.com, spe.booking.com, rw.booking.com). SPF authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

DKIM alignment: all 44 observed emails sign with a domain aligned with booking.com (booking.com, sg.booking.com). DKIM authenticates the visible From — supports DMARC directly.

Transport & deliverability

TLS: 67% TLS 1.3, 33% TLS 1.2 (across 21 sends).

Delivery (last 7 days): 75% under 10 seconds, 25% over 1 minute (across 4 sends).

Other ESPs detected

Brands often use multiple ESPs (e.g. one for marketing, another for transactional/notifications).

SparkPost 16

Confirmed senders

ESPs we've seen sending email for this brand. Green = confirmed by SPF, sender IP rDNS, or known infra pairing (label shows the source). Grey = observed but not yet confirmed by SPF or PTR.

SendGrid ✓ confirmed SparkPost ✓ confirmed

Other SPF authorizations

ESPs this brand has authorized in their SPF record. We confirm them with a green ✓ only after seeing recurring use (3+ emails across 2+ days). Until then they stay here — either we haven't observed any email yet, or we've seen a handful but not enough to call them a regular sender for the brand.

Proofpoint

Probed: booking.com, sg.booking.com, spe.booking.com, rw.booking.com

Where emails landed (Gmail)

Folder distribution across all emails from this brand observed in Gmail inboxes. High inbox % = good deliverability; spam appearances are the headline signal.

FolderCountShare
inbox 42 77.8%
promotions 12 22.2%

Placement by ESP

Which ESP's emails are landing where. Sorted by spam % so problem senders surface first. Brands using one ESP for marketing and another for transactional often see very different placement profiles per ESP. Per-ESP folder data only started being captured recently — counts here may be smaller than the total above until backfill catches up.

ESP Emails Placement Inbox % Tabs % Spam %
SendGrid 43
81.4% 18.6% 0.0%
SparkPost 11
63.6% 36.4% 0.0%

ESP activity over time

Jun 3 – Jun 24, 2026 · 11 days with sends

Daily observations per ESP. Brands often run multiple ESPs concurrently — marketing on one, transactional on another — so this chart shows usage rather than switches.

8 0 SendGrid: 6 (2026-06-03)6SendGrid: 3 (2026-06-07)SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-07)4SendGrid: 2 (2026-06-09)2SendGrid: 3 (2026-06-10)3SendGrid: 2 (2026-06-11)2SendGrid: 1 (2026-06-12)SparkPost: 1 (2026-06-12)2SendGrid: 1 (2026-06-13)1SendGrid: 1 (2026-06-14)1SendGrid: 1 (2026-06-15)1SendGrid: 4 (2026-06-18)4SendGrid: 3 (2026-06-24)SparkPost: 5 (2026-06-24)806/0306/0606/0906/1206/1506/1806/2106/24
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Sending IPs

IP addresses booking.com has been observed sending from, and where their mail landed in Gmail.

IPHostnameObsPlacementReputation
149.72.129.233 o31.sg.booking.com 7 Check →
167.89.6.174 o12.sg.booking.com 6 Check →
192.174.95.219 mta-174-95-219.booking.com.sparkpostmail.com 5 3 Check →
167.89.88.98 o21.sg.booking.com 3 Check →
167.89.15.14 o14.sg.booking.com 3 Check →
192.254.126.45 o7.sg.booking.com 3 Check →
167.89.96.8 o19.sg.booking.com 3 Check →
198.21.4.145 o9.sg.booking.com 3 3 Check →
192.254.126.47 o8.sg.booking.com 2 Check →
192.174.95.216 mta-174-95-216.booking.com.sparkpostmail.com 2 Check →
167.89.48.168 o17.sg.booking.com 2 Check →
50.31.33.210 o5.sg.booking.com 2 Check →
167.89.15.148 o15.sg.booking.com 2 Check →
50.31.33.211 o6.sg.booking.com 2 Check →
167.89.15.150 o16.sg.booking.com 1 Check →
192.254.122.159 o18.sg.booking.com 1 Check →
192.174.95.231 mta-174-95-231.booking.com.sparkpostmail.com 1 Check →
192.174.95.227 mta-174-95-227.booking.com.sparkpostmail.com 1 Check →
192.174.95.225 mta-174-95-225.booking.com.sparkpostmail.com 1 Check →
167.89.96.75 o20.sg.booking.com 1 Check →
192.174.95.232 mta-174-95-232.booking.com.sparkpostmail.com 1 Check →
167.89.6.175 o13.sg.booking.com 1 Check →
192.174.95.230 mta-174-95-230.booking.com.sparkpostmail.com 1 Check →
149.72.129.23 o27.sg.booking.com 1 Check →
168.245.58.146 o1.email.rideways.com 1 1 Check →

Sending domains

DomainESPs detectedDelivery (7d)
booking.comSendGrid 36 SparkPost 8
sg.booking.comSendGrid 10 SparkPost 8