often attributive
: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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Warren Buffet was considered a technical troglodyte for never investing in the dot-com boom.
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Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
The founders of these micronations — in the 2000s quite a few dot-com tycoons — were usually men of means, steeped in Ayn Rand and Thomas Hobbes.
—Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Gold showed its mettle (so to speak) on Black Monday in 1987, amid the popping of the dot-com bubble in 2001, during the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 and also the pandemic’s onset in 2020.
—Larry Light, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
March 24th of 2000 marked the peak of the dot-com bubble.
—Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
The founders of these micronations — in the 2000s quite a few dot-com tycoons — were usually men of means, steeped in Ayn Rand and Thomas Hobbes.
—Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Gold showed its mettle (so to speak) on Black Monday in 1987, amid the popping of the dot-com bubble in 2001, during the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 and also the pandemic’s onset in 2020.
—Larry Light, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
March 24th of 2000 marked the peak of the dot-com bubble.
—Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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