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

At home, the economy may have been shaken by the dot-com bust, but on the whole Americans were living well. — Michael E. Neagle, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026

In the dot-com and digital revolutions that followed, many of the people who sold the hardware, coded the software, and built the platforms were seen as iconoclasts themselves. — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026

Critics worry such deals can artificially bolster demand and have drawn comparisons to financing practices during the dot-com bubble. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026

Echoes of the dot-com era There are easy parallels to draw between the dot-com boom and the current AI boom. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 26 Aug. 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