Definition of "dot-coms" [dot-coms]

• Plural form of dot-com. (noun)

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• "For a media that was sent to the woodshed for helping to inflate and failing to predict two disastrous bubbles in a single decade -- dot-coms and housing -- perhaps it stands to reason that its motto these days seems to be "we won't get fooled again.""
• "The new rules affect what the industry calls top-level domain names, the familiar dot-coms and dot-nets that end every Web address."
• "If anything there has been an overproliferation of commercial ventures competing for a limited business base and, as such, we've seen Iridium and Globalstar (anyone remember Microsoft's 'Teledesic' proposal for 400 or so satellites in LEO?) go bust along with the dot-coms a decade ago."