dot-com

noun

ˈdät-ˌkäm 

often attributive

: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website

Examples of dot-com in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There was the 21-month streak that ended in September 2002 – surrounding the 9/11 terror attacks and the dot-com stock collapse. —Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 18 May 2026

From dot-com darling to infrastructure workhorse Founded in 1984, Cisco is traditionally known as the backbone of the internet—its routers, switches, and networking hardware have powered enterprise and carrier networks for decades. —Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 15 May 2026

The spread is closer to the Nasdaq ‘s margin of 55% ahead of the dot-com crash in 2000 when the commercial internet was first taking off and companies with no clear path to profitability got valuations in the hundreds of millions of dollars. —Tobias Burns, CNBC, 15 May 2026

For a handful of veteran Wall Street analysts, the dot-com deja-vu is back. —Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2026

Word History

Etymology

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

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dot-com

• aplomb
• balaam
• begam
• cocom
• embalm
• islam
• pogrom
• salaam
• sitcom
• balm
• bom
• bomb