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

Cramer argued that today's AI companies are fundamentally different from the speculative businesses that collapsed during the dot-com bust. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026

Then came the dot-com crash, the subprime crisis, and the pandemic. — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026

And the first four books in Maupin’s Tales of the City series ran in a San Francisco Chronicle that had yet to be kneecapped by the dot-com bubble’s popping. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

Economists have spent much of 2026 watching to see if the artificial intelligence bubble will burst, much like the boom-and-burn cycle of dot-com pioneer companies in the late 1990s. — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 26 Oct. 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