dot-com

Or dot·com

[dot-kom]

noun

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

adjective

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

dot-com

1. See .com.

Other Word Forms

• dot-commer noun
• dot-comer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dot-com¹

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

Example Sentences

There’s also a difference in the valuations of top AI players compared with leaders of the dot-com era, Arya’s team said.

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He sees behavior reminiscent of the complicated vendor-financing setups at Cisco Systems, Lucent, and Global Crossing in the late 1990s, which ultimately became emblematic of the dot-com bust.

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Meanwhile, analysts at independent research firm MacroStrategy Partnership recently said the AI bubble is a whopping 17 times bigger than the size of the dot-com bubble, and four times bigger than the 2008 real-estate bubble.

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And the stock market today is anything but a bargain: The S&P 500 is almost as expensive today, based on its price/earnings ratio, as it was on the eve of the dot-com bust.

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That was right before the dot-com bubble began to deflate.

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