dot com
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- noun
- /dɑt kɑm/
- Texting
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empresa dot com
- It was really an overextension of the model to what turned out to be a limited consumer demand that caused the dot com collapse.
- the dot com boom
- dot com company
- the dot com bust
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- That's join Delete Me dot com slash Adam promo code Adam.
- And you can go to Square dot com for a free trial.
- I am Facebook dot com coach Matthew Hussey.
- Patreon Patreon at dot com slash angry cops.
- Go into Soho vote dot com to cast your initial vote.
- That's Bialik breakdown, just like it sounds dot com.
Examples
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We tried the venture capitalist route, but since the bubble burst on dot coms...
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They figure this is the latest "dot com," and they expect to make a fortune out of it.
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And you can go to Square dot com for a free trial.
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You can find out more and save your spot at Rose Shop dot com master class.
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Most of all, I would have started earlier and registered my name as a dot com.
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You could Google search any of them that interest you, or simply add "dot com" to the name and hope for the best.
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We're going to have a great company, it's Trump Mortgage and "Trump mortgage dot com," and it's gonna be a terrific company.
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That's Rich Dad Advisors dot com for great information that can help you right now.
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Some of these were the "dot com" startup companies with a few wild ideas, no assets, and huge drains of capital.
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Many successful businesses now operate as dot com companies, providing their products and services online.
Synonyms
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4.2
A company that does most of its business online, often with a website ending in .com
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A business that does most of its work online and uses a website ending in .com
A company that works mainly on the internet
How Online
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase directly names the domain string formed by combining 'dot' (the punctuation pronounced in spoken URLs) with 'com' (the commercial domain suffix), so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it refers to ‘.com’ websites. The extended use to mean a company that operates primarily on the internet is a simple metonymic shift from the website/domain to the business and is cross-linguistically common, making the expression predictable for learners.
Etymology
Dot com comes from website addresses that end with the parts dot and com, written as '.com'. Because many businesses used those web addresses, people began to call a company a dot com when it works mainly on the internet. So dot com means 'a company that does business online'.