How to Use dot-com in a Sentence

dot-com

noun
  • The decade was marked by the rise of hip hop, the dot-com era, and grunge culture.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Just because the dot-com bust happened doesn’t mean the biggest five companies in the world today aren’t internet companies.
    George Davis, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • After the jazz and jet ages, came the dot-com bubble buzz, and the brief oligarchization of the pool.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In 1999, with the dot-com boom near its apogee, Angie’s List moved online.
    Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Blank compared the technology to the bubbly birth of the world wide web, and the dot-com crash that followed.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 28 July 2024
  • When Westfield took over the mall in 2002, San Francisco was emerging from the dot-com crash.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • This reminds Professor Shiller of the rallies of the 1920s and the dot-com boom, which both ended badly.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The 2001 recession, meanwhile, was prompted by the dot-com crash.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • The last time a year was going this badly for utility stocks, the dot-com bubble was about to burst.
    Karen Langley, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Take a market darling of the dot-com era, Cisco Systems Inc..
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Where and when the phoenix will rise in a city made famous by the Gold Rush and the dot-com bubble is a question that will likely not be answered for years.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The dot-com bubble made things worse, causing defaults to approach 5%.
    Michael Foster, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Like Facebook’s rise after the dot-com bubble burst, the killer app for Web3 may not have even been invented yet.
    Adam Kovacevich, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • The legacy business, in his view, was on the brink of a breakout, with the dot-com component sure to fire up the afterburners.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 3 June 2024
  • Investors can’t agree on whether the tech-stock rally looks like the prelude to an eventual bust—like that of the dot-com era—or the start of a more durable rally.
    WSJ, 20 June 2023
  • Advertisement Read more: The AI craze is no dot-com bubble.
    Andy Mills, Quartz, 20 June 2024
  • That was the peak of another technology boom — the dot-com bubble.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The metric became the foundation for Shiller’s argument that the dot-com frenzy would prove to be a bubble.
    Greg McKenna, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2024
  • During the dot-com bubble, the standards for listing companies were very low.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The dot-com era, then nearing its end, had been literally named for addresses such as this one.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The Audible player never took off, but the companion Audible.com platform grew roots in the nascent dot-com business.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Wright digs into the underbelly of the dot-com bubble with this profile of Seth Warshavsky, an early web whiz kid who rose to prominence on the strength of — what else?
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
  • Prior to the dot-com crash, the growth of network equipment makers was absolutely eye-popping.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Unlike the companies that went bust in the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s, Big Tech can spend exorbitant sums of money and be largely fine.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 July 2024
  • When the dot-com bubble burst and sent the economy cratering, Dalio and Bridgewater emerged unscathed.
    Tarpley Hitt, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • There’s a tech bust emptying expensive office towers, much like the dot-com bubble did around the same time AsiaSF first opened.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The railway boom of the late nineteenth century and the dot-com bubble during the early years of this century illustrate her claim.
    Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The housing market has been upended by the Fed driving interest rates up to their highest level since the dot-com bubble at the turn of the century.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The dot-com crash of the early 2000s wiped out a swath of companies that had tried to capitalize on hype around the early internet, but also set the stage for the next wave of tech investment.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • O’Neal made deals with internet service provider Freeinternet.com and co-founded the shoe and apparel e-commerce company Dunk.net, both of which failed during the dot-com bust.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023

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