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

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Etymology

Origin of dot-com

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

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Example Sentences

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dot-com

Nvidia was founded in 1993 and went public in 1999, a year before the dot-com bubble burst.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

That was the time of the dot-com bust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Some economists have looked back to the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s as a yardstick to measure the possible costs to the global economy of an AI blowup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

While the recession that followed the dot-com bust was mild, he’s “much more worried this time around” about a possible debt crisis.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

A grandmother is much better at this sort of thing than any newfangled dot-com.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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