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

What differentiates this wave of sudden wealth syndrome from the dot-com era, DiFuria said, is that people are making money from a technology many consider destructive—including some of the people building it. — Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026

But the editorial process was painfully slow, and the business model was doomed by the dot-com crash. — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026

The stock market hit an all-time high of 1,547 in March 2000 before the dot-com bubble burst and triggered three straight years of double-digit stock market losses. — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2026

The bursting of the dot-com bubble helped usher in a relatively mild recession. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 20 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