Similar words: dot com, hotchpotch, otc, notch, dot, botch, gotcha, dote. Meaning: n. a company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in `.com'. adj. of or relating to an internet company dot com. n. a company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in `.com'.
31. However, many people still get that glassy-eyed, far away dreamer look on their faces when they think of the riches awaiting them on just the other side of their own dot-com.
32. And in 2000, during the dot-com bust, several telecommunications companies went bankrupt when too many competitors entered the market.
33. At the time nobody had any idea how these companies would make money--and most of them didn't, leading to the dot-com crash in 2000.