dot-coms

Cultural  

1. Colloquial name given to start-up companies that sell goods and services over the Internet. Dot-coms proliferated in the 1990s, but many failed by early 2000. The name comes from the “.com” ending of the Internet address of such companies.

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Example Sentences

One difference: Many of the pure-play dot-coms didn’t even have revenue, while the AI companies are at least making some sales.

From The Wall Street Journal

Just as the dot-coms were priced based on hope that the internet would deliver a new era of profits from business models that were yet to be proven, so with AI.

From The Wall Street Journal

“All this suggests that for AI companies, unlike dot-coms, the marginal cost of sales is relatively high, and the potential profit margin correspondingly thin,” Gave writes.

From Barron's

And among dot-coms, it pretty much stood alone.

From MarketWatch

Public companies have scurried to announce AI investments or claim AI capabilities for their products in the hope of turbocharging their share prices, much as an earlier generation of businesses promoted themselves as “dot-coms” in the 1990s to look more glittery in investors’ eyes.

From Los Angeles Times