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

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The paradigm shift is reverberating deeper in the core of the organization as well, and enterprises are now experimenting with AI agents in finance, procurement, logistics, legal, and IT with a sense of urgency not seen since the dot-com boom. Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 The Scene An original dot-com darling is reintroducing itself for its 30th anniversary. Max Tani, semafor.com, 16 June 2025 But by then, consoles were already taking over gaming, and the Backyard series failed to keep up, doomed in part by the dot-com bubble bursting. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 June 2025 But while some companies quietly celebrated the end of the whole Internet thing, others would rise from the ashes of the dot-com collapse. ArsTechnica, 10 June 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 30 Jun. 2025.

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