dotcom
A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
Noun
- A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
- Even mainstream, primetime narratives in the domestic sphere, for instance, now provide unremarkable reflections on the now naive and overly optimistic promises of cybertech, the high-techs, and dotcoms. - 2003, Anna...
- Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free...
- In an echo of the valuation methods used before the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2001, its shares are priced not in relation to its profits or even its revenue but to its extraordinary growth. - 2013 August 3,...
Origin
From dot + com, from the DNS suffix .com.
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Verb
- To convert to using or being based on e-commerce.
- The fear of being "dotcommed” was a powerful catalyst creating a reactionary environment. - 2001, Rick G. Sherland, E-business & Internet infrastructure software: United States, page 2:
- When will your company get dotcommed? - 2001, Mass Media in India, →ISBN, page 185:
- Then Yuppies dotcommed the Banks. - 2010, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter, →ISBN: