dot-com

noun

ˈdät-ˌkäm How to pronounce dot-com (audio)
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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for dot-com

Word History

Etymology

from the use of .com in the URLs of such companies

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dot-com was in 1994

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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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