dotcom
/dɒtˈkɒm//ˌdɑtˈkɑm/
dotcom noun: a company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
Noun
dotcom (plural dotcoms)
- 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
- 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 education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have...2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
Verb
UK/ˈdɒtkɒm/US/ˈdɑtˌkɑm/
dotcom (third-person singular simple present dotcoms, present participle dotcomming, simple past and past participle dotcommed)
- 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
Examples of dotcom in a sentence
- Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip.2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- 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, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
Forms of dotcom
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dotcoms |
| alternative form | .com |
| alternative form | dot-com |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | dotcoms |
| present participle | dotcomming |
| past participle | dotcommed |
| past | dotcommed |
Origin of dotcom
From dot + com, from the DNS suffix .com.
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Questions about dotcom
- What does dotcom mean?
- Dotcom means a company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
- How do you use dotcom in a sentence?
- Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip.
- What part of speech is dotcom?
- Dotcom can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce dotcom?
- Dotcom is pronounced /dɒtˈkɒm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dotcom?
- The plural of dotcom is dotcoms.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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