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

Troublingly, the analyst sees more value investors throwing in the towel as possibly signaling stress in the market, which has drawn comparisons to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s as stocks skyrocket on the promise of AI. — Sarah Min, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

Reilly’s September 10 report found consensus estimates for S&P 500 earnings growth now matching dot-com-era peaks, concentrated overwhelmingly in technology and semiconductor names. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

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

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