often attributive
: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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In the 1990s, the internet boom created overnight fortunes along with unforeseen challenges for some tech geeks and impresarios who founded wildly successful dot-coms.
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Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
Worries are particularly high about companies in the artificial-intelligence industry, where pessimists see echoes of the 2000 dot-com bubble that imploded.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Traders, fearful of missing out on the rally, are piling into equities in a way reminiscent of the 1990s, when a feeding frenzy on early internet companies inflated the market right before the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
After the dot-com crash in 2000, the stock market tanked and venture capital funding plummeted.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
Worries are particularly high about companies in the artificial-intelligence industry, where pessimists see echoes of the 2000 dot-com bubble that imploded.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Traders, fearful of missing out on the rally, are piling into equities in a way reminiscent of the 1990s, when a feeding frenzy on early internet companies inflated the market right before the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
After the dot-com crash in 2000, the stock market tanked and venture capital funding plummeted.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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