often attributive
: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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Fiber optic cables laid during the dot-com bubble of late 1990s, for example, now provide the foundation for today’s internet.
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
The Xbox console was once considered a cutting-edge product, launched in 2001 when Microsoft was otherwise entering a prolonged post-dot-com-bubble creative malaise.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 18 Dec. 2025
The billions upon billions in capital going toward data centers have already outstripped telecom spending at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025
And yet, compared to the dot-com boom, the story of artificial intelligence is weirder.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2025
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
The Xbox console was once considered a cutting-edge product, launched in 2001 when Microsoft was otherwise entering a prolonged post-dot-com-bubble creative malaise.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 18 Dec. 2025
The billions upon billions in capital going toward data centers have already outstripped telecom spending at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025
And yet, compared to the dot-com boom, the story of artificial intelligence is weirder.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 12 Dec. 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 25 Dec. 2025.
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