dot-com

Language: en

🇬🇧 /ˌdɒtˈkɒm/ 🇺🇸 /ˌdɑːtˈkɑːm/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    A company that conducts its business primarily or exclusively on the Internet, especially one that was established during the late 1990s Internet boom.; A website or domain name ending in .com.
  2. adjective
    Relating to or characteristic of Internet-based businesses, especially those from the late 1990s era.
  3. noun
    The dot-com bubble or the period of excessive speculation in Internet-related companies, roughly from 1995 to 2001.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: dot-coms

Collocations

dot-com bubbledot-com eradot-com boomdot-com crashdot-com companydot-com startup

Derivatives

dot-commer

Synonyms

internet companyweb companyonline businesse-commerce firmweb startup

Antonyms

brick-and-mortar

Commonly confused

dotcom
EN: 'dotcom' is an unhyphenated variant spelling of 'dot-com'; both refer to the same thing, but 'dot-com' with a hyphen is the more standard form.

Spelling tips

EN: The word appears in three forms: 'dot-com' (hyphenated, most standard), 'dotcom' (closed), and 'dot com' (open). The hyphenated form is preferred in formal writing.

💬 Examples

  1. Many dot-coms went bankrupt after the bubble burst in 2000.

  2. They registered a dot-com for their new online store.

  3. The dot-com era saw unprecedented speculation in technology stocks.

  4. Investors lost billions when the dot-com finally collapsed.