Definition of "dot-com" []

• Of or relating to business conducted on the Internet: dot-com advertising. (adjective)
• Of or relating to a company whose products or services deal with or are sold on the Internet: a dot-com brokerage firm. (adjective)
• A dot-com company. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Six months after Netscape went public, the phrase "dot-com" started showing up in TV commercials, and dozens of eventual Internet giants -- from Amazon -- followed."
• "The hottest deals for the new Internet company collectively became known as the dot-com boom, and you could hear taxi drivers, bus drivers, waitresses, secretaries, and schoolteachers debate the virtues of the latest golly-gee-willickers company with as much passion and sophistication as an investment banker."
• "She had a job at a company called a dot-com, which got paid $100,000 to make, like, a single Web site."