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dot-com

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dot-com, dot com, dot com companyadjective

    a company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in `.com'

  2. dot-comadjective

    of or relating to an internet company

    "a dot-com outfit in San Francisco"

Wiktionary

  1. dot-comnoun

    A business that carries out its functions primarily via the internet.

ChatGPT

  1. dot-com

    A dot-com refers to a company or business entity that primarily operates on the internet. The term comes from the .com domain name used by commercial businesses in their website URLs. The "dot-com" era peaked during the late 1990s to early 2000s, with many such companies emerging during the internet boom.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dot-com in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dot-com in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of dot-com in a Sentence

  1. James Ragan:

    Just the fact that you have a group of investors that are really chasing abnormal gains, that’s what is reminiscent of the dot-com bubble.

  2. Stephanie Ricker Schulte:

    After 2000, after the so-called bubble burst, 'dot-com' came to represent American hubris and greed, especially outside the U.S., my favorite example of this is an article published in Germany that described Internet executives washing their car with champagne.

  3. Stephanie Ricker Schulte:

    Before 2000, the term dot-com indicated American innovation and entrepreneurialism, both inside and outside the U.S..

  4. Grant McGurn:

    He knew I had all my money in there and he was just like,' I've seen this before with the dot-com bubble crash, and I don't want to see you lose thousands of dollars,'.

  5. Evan Collins:

    So here you have the end of the millennium, there’s anticipation. There’s a weird desire to categorize what we’ve accomplished in the last 2000 years, in a very western-centric, America-centric way, you’re in the middle of a dot-com boom, technology is advancing quickly, but along with that there is a sense of unease.

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