often attributive
: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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His portfolio fell 44% in the dot-com crash, and sustained a 40% loss in 2008.
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Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
Yet the broader lesson of the dot-com era is not that technological enthusiasm was misplaced.
—Perrie M. Weiner, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
During his dot-com days, Musk had treated money as code.
—Ben Tarnoff, Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
Well, many people listening to us or watching us will remember the dot-com bust, which followed a huge wave of investment in the 1990s in all kinds of infrastructure of the internet, especially fiber-optic cable.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
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Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
Yet the broader lesson of the dot-com era is not that technological enthusiasm was misplaced.
—Perrie M. Weiner, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
During his dot-com days, Musk had treated money as code.
—Ben Tarnoff, Big Think, 23 Apr. 2026
Well, many people listening to us or watching us will remember the dot-com bust, which followed a huge wave of investment in the 1990s in all kinds of infrastructure of the internet, especially fiber-optic cable.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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