noun a company that conducts its business on the internet. "tons of dot-coms went out of business"
What do you mean by dot com?
A dotcom, or dot-com, is a company with a business model that is dependent on the operation of a website. Dotcoms get their name from the .com at the end of their website URLs. The term is now used primarily to describe a company that was created in the early days of the World Wide Web, the 1990s.
Why is dot com used?
The domain name .com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Added in 1985, its name is derived from the word commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by commercial organizations.
What means the ends Dot Com in Google?
(1) A commercial Internet domain name that uses the dot-com (.com) suffix at the end of the address; for example, www.computerlanguage.com is the domain name of the publisher of this encyclopedia. Since dot-com domains were used by all major corporations, the Internet became known as the "dot-com" world.
What is a dot com or online business called?
A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com, dotcom or .com), is a company that does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website on the World Wide Web that uses the popular top-level domain ".com".
