dot-com

American  

[dot-kom] / ˈdɒtˈkɒm /

Or dotcom

noun

1. a company doing business mostly or solely on the internet.

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adjective

1. of or relating to such a company or to the business it conducts.

dot-com Cultural  

1. See .com.

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Other Word Forms

• dot-comer noun
• dot-commer noun

Etymology

Origin of dot-com

First recorded in 1995–2000; from the pronunciation of .com, suffix of domain name in most commercial internet addresses

Example Sentences

Venture capitalist Bill Gurley likens today’s token economy to the dot-com era of selling dollars for 85 cents.

From The Wall Street Journal

Much more important than the wall-to-wall TV coverage of roadside bombs and body bags was the ongoing deflation of the dot-com bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before then, it had tended to grow in recent years, although not as quickly or dramatically as it did in the dot-com bubble of yesteryear.

From Barron's

Standard & Poor’s began publishing its S&P Indices Versus Active reports, comparing market indexes with the performance of active portfolio managers, in mid-2002, at the bottom of the dot-com bust.

From The Wall Street Journal

Concerning to some, the current level of single-stock dispersion is reminiscent of earlier stock-market booms that were followed by busts—most notably the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal