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

Not since the dot-com bubble have stocks thrown up this concerning metric.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Along with “burn rate,” funding gap became part of the financial lexicon in 2000, as the dot-com bubble was starting to deflate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Cisco is the “ultimate dot-com poster child trying to claim relevance in today’s bubble,” Goldberg said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Gibney traces the career and life of the South Africa-born Musk from dot-com entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the early 2000s to becoming the world's first trillionaire.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

It was actually the coincidence of the dot-com boom and the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that launched the fiber-optic bubble.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman