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

Venture capitalist Bill Gurley likens today’s token economy to the dot-com era of selling dollars for 85 cents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

His observation comes amid predictions that capital-intensity metrics will outstrip those from the dot-com era, as noted by Morgan Stanley analyst Todd Castagno last month.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The venture-capital firm Space Capital has compared SpaceX’s plans with the public debut of Netscape in 1995, which kicked off the dot-com boom.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

The only times it was higher in the past several decades were during the peak of the dot-com boom and immediately after the Covid recovery in 2020 and 2021.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

This led to the dot-com stock bubble and a massive overinvestment in the fiber-optic cable needed to carry all the new digital information.

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