Definition of "dot-com"

dot-com

noun
plural dot-coms
1. Alternative spelling of dotcom
  Quotations
  Dot-com companies are different from the traditional 'brick and mortar' in many ways ...
  2001, Banking & Finance, Academic Foundation, page 46
verb
third-person singular simple present dot-coms, present participle dot-comming, simple past and past participle dot-commed
1. Alternative spelling of dotcom
  Quotations
  Check to see if your name—or any Web site name you pick—has been dot-commed yet at any of several Web sites that oversee domain-name registration, such as ...
  2001, Samantha Miller, E-Mail Etiquette
  In July 1999, while I was dot-comming in Virginia, Governor Bush went to Indianapolis, home of Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's “Front Porch Alliance.”
  2006, David Kuo, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction
  When I landed in New York, I went straight to work—finding the refi boom accelerating at an exponential rate. In 2000, Americans had dot-commed themselves to death; in 2001, they were mortgaging themselves to death.
  2010, Jordan Belfort, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street