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: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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In the late 1990s, as online commerce grew during the dot-com boom, Fields shifted toward operating a digital storefront supported by a warehouse.
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Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
In the high-flying dot-com days, AOL also engineered what is widely considered among the worst mega-mergers ever with its deal for Time Warner to create AOL Time Warner, completed in January 2001, which was valued at a staggering $350 billion at the time.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
Much of this investment depends on circular financing, a hallmark of the dot-com bubble that dramatically increase the chance of cascading financial failure should any point in the chain show weakness.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
This, in turn, leads to a crash, just like during the dot-com era.
—Tasmin Lockwood,chloe Taylor, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
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Nia Bowers, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
In the high-flying dot-com days, AOL also engineered what is widely considered among the worst mega-mergers ever with its deal for Time Warner to create AOL Time Warner, completed in January 2001, which was valued at a staggering $350 billion at the time.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
Much of this investment depends on circular financing, a hallmark of the dot-com bubble that dramatically increase the chance of cascading financial failure should any point in the chain show weakness.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
This, in turn, leads to a crash, just like during the dot-com era.
—Tasmin Lockwood,chloe Taylor, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dot-com
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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