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

During the dot-com heyday, many market participants became overly concentrated in the technology sector and ultimately lost big. — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 21 July 2026

Everybody seems to know someone who was personally burned by the dot-com collapse and the housing crisis. — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026

The bulk of the campus had been quickly converted after its previous occupant went down in the fallout from the dot-com bust. — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026

While not a demand issue, concerns include dot-com-era valuations, a hawkish Fed, and doubts about AI infrastructure returns. — Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 8 July 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