In dictionaries:
dot-com boom
Synonym of dot-com bubble
dot-com bubble
(business, historical) A historic speculative bubble based around the Internet, covering roughly 1997–2000.
Dot-com company
A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com, dotcom or .com), is a company that conducts most of its businesses on the Internet, usually through a website on the World Wide Web that uses the popular top-level domain ".com".
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