often attributive
: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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And even if there is a bubble, proponents say, the dot-com bubble gave us companies like Amazon, and the internet became, well, the internet.
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
The first one is Cisco , the marquee name of the dot-com bubble, which is up 18% this year.
—John Melloy, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
That’s key when worries have been high that a bubble may be forming in artificial-intelligence technology, with too much investment flowing in akin to the 2000 dot-com frenzy.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Twenty-five years after the first internet bubble burst in March 2000, investors and analysts are starting to draw comparisons between today’s AI boom and the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, which ended with a crash.
—Christine Romans, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
The first one is Cisco , the marquee name of the dot-com bubble, which is up 18% this year.
—John Melloy, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
That’s key when worries have been high that a bubble may be forming in artificial-intelligence technology, with too much investment flowing in akin to the 2000 dot-com frenzy.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Twenty-five years after the first internet bubble burst in March 2000, investors and analysts are starting to draw comparisons between today’s AI boom and the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, which ended with a crash.
—Christine Romans, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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