Dotcom
//dɒtˈkɒm// noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet. dated
"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."
Verb
- 1 To convert to using or being based on e-commerce. dated, transitive
"The fear of being "dotcommed” was a powerful catalyst creating a reactionary environment."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From dot + com, from the DNS suffix .com.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.