Definition of dot com in English English dictionary
A Dot-com company, or simply a dot-com, is a company which does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website that uses the popular top-level domain, ".com" (in turn derived from the word "commercial")
a company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in ` com'
A dot-com is a company that does all or most of its business on the Internet. In 1999, dot-coms spent more than $1 billion on TV spots. relating to a person or company whose business is done using the Internet or involves the Internet
Abbreviation given to the many Internet firms formed in the late 1990s because their Internet names ended with the com suffix For a couple of years, having a dot-com name was prestigious and attracted funding When hundreds of these firms failed in 2000 and 2001, they became known as dot-bombs