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

Or consider the dot-com mania of the late 1990s, when eToys, Pets.com and hordes of other flash-in-the-pan internet companies drenched the market with initial public offerings of stock.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Intel stock recently surpassed the all-time high set during the dot-com bubble in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

What Intel shares have achieved in the past five weeks took more than a year during the height of the dot-com boom.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

More and more market observers are invoking the dot-com bubble when discussing the recent run.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

“The residents in particular, and some of the faculty, were captivated by the dot-com bubble,” said Burry.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis