dot com

/dɑt kɑm/
noun
  1. A company that does business primarily on the internet.
    • The young entrepreneur dreamed of building the next big dot-com.
    • Many dot-coms went bankrupt during the early 2000s.
    • She started a successful dot-com that sells handmade crafts online.
  2. The internet business sector or industry as a whole.
    • He wrote a book about the rise and fall of the dot-com era.
    • The dot-com crash taught many people about the risks of tech stocks.
    • Investors were excited about the dot-com boom in the late 1990s.
Synonyms
adjective
  1. Relating to internet-based businesses or the internet industry.
    • She worked for a dot-com startup that sold pet supplies online.
    • Dot-com companies often have flexible work-from-home policies.
    • The dot-com bubble burst when many online companies failed.