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

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dot-com

When the dot-com boom and bust of 1998-2002 started, Dom Rizzo, the global technology equity fund manager at T. Rowe Price, was only five years old.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

“It also marks a very big change from the dot-com era. Back then, valuations reached a much greater high, but they came down as stock prices collapsed,” said Oppenheimer and his team.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

The indicator is around 230% compared with a mere 150% or so before the dot-com crash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The Journal wrote years ago about the Buffett Indicator breaking above the dot-com peak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

But apparently you don’t need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich