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dot-com Definition

dot·-com (dät′käm′)

adjective

designating or of a company doing business primarily on the World Wide Web

Etymology: < “.com”, a typical ending for commercial Web addresses

noun

such a company

dot-com Related Forms
dot′·-com′mer (-käm′ər) noun
dot-com Finance Definition
One of the terms to come into common usage the quickest, it refers to any number of Internet companies that began in the later half of the 1990s during the technology and Internet boom. It takes its name from the companies that included a “.com” at the end of their name. As the technology bubble burst and dot-com companies were discredited, many firms that were still in business changed their names to get rid of the “.com.”
dot-com Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • boom: For example, service providers hosting customer files online folded suddenly at the end of the dot-com boom.
  • bubble: First, the dot-com bubble in San Francisco was only the tip of the iceberg of a larger boom centered in Silicon Valley.
  • bust: Viacom has maintained the most stable stock value and steady growth since the dot-com bust in 2000.
  • burst: We saw the same thing when the dot-com bubble burst.
  • entrepreneur: On the contrary, many dot-com entrepreneurs have discovered that more profits can be made outside the protection of the digital Panopticon.
  • crash: Over optimism of this kind was the cause of many of the failures that occurred during the famous dot-com crash period.

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