dotcom

/ ˌdɒtˈkɒm /

noun

1. 1. a company that conducts most of its business on the internet

   2. ( as modifier )

      dotcom stocks

Word History and Origins

Origin of dotcom¹

C20: from .com , the domain name suffix of businesses trading on the internet

Example Sentences

Speculative tech bubbles such as the dotcom boom of the 1990s lacked a bricks and mortar base.

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"This is not different from the dotcom boom at the beginning of the 2000s. There were companies with huge growth prospects. And when the growth prospects disappeared, these were the companies that disappeared."

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Kim Dotcom is a New Zealand–residing hacker and internet personality whose pinned tweet is a lengthy complaint about “Zionist world domination” which quotes from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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Lara Storey, who was a Dotcom Personal Shopper for Tesco at the time, said she wants "other women to know that they don’t have to accept this type of behaviour".

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Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has lost his long battle to avoid extradition from New Zealand to the United States.

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