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.com

UK/dɒt.kɒm/US/dɑt.kɑm/

.com is the alternative form of dotcom.

Meaning of dotcom

Noun

dotcom (plural dotcoms)

  1. (dated) 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 Everett, John T. Caldwell, New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality

See all 2 meanings of dotcom

Forms of .com

plural.coms

Questions about .com

What is .com the alternative form of?
.com is the alternative form of dotcom.
How do you pronounce .com?
.com is pronounced /dɒt.kɒm/ (UK).

Words near .com in the dictionary

  1. .38
  2. .38s
  3. .45
  4. .45s
  5. .500
  6. .com
  7. .coms
  8. .dat
  9. .NET
  10. .ovl
  11. .ovl's

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Adapted from Wiktionary: .com (page history and authors); dotcom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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