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

Companies now take roughly 11 years to reach IPO on average, up from single digits before the dot-com crash — a shift that set in over two decades ago, not a recent one. — Carrie McCabe, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Investors who bought at its 1999 dot-com peak had to wait a full decade before the stock reclaimed that old high, finally breaking through to new records in late 2009. — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 July 2026

That’s been used in the past to argue why astronomical gains can continue on their trajectory and continue defying fundamentals or logic, such as during the dot-com bubble. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 July 2026

The dot-com boom of the late 1990s allowed Democrats to assume high returns would last indefinitely. — Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 25 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