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: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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But 25 years ago this month, the bubble burst, triggering the dot-com crash of 2000.
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Bruce Gil, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2025
Twenty-five years ago, the internet did transform business, education, and society, just not on the timeline or in the ways dot-com investors expected.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
Then the dot-com bubble burst, sending the Nasdaq tumbling more than seventy per cent by October, 2002.
—Oren Peleg, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The rationale is straightforward: like early-stage startups in the dot-com era, some of these assets may eventually prove valuable, whereas many others will likely become irrelevant.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
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Bruce Gil, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2025
Twenty-five years ago, the internet did transform business, education, and society, just not on the timeline or in the ways dot-com investors expected.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
Then the dot-com bubble burst, sending the Nasdaq tumbling more than seventy per cent by October, 2002.
—Oren Peleg, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The rationale is straightforward: like early-stage startups in the dot-com era, some of these assets may eventually prove valuable, whereas many others will likely become irrelevant.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dot-com
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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