Dot-com
A dot-com is a company whose business is mainly conducted online, a term associated above all with the companies that emerged in the late 1990s
What it means, how it is used and where it comes up, with its related concepts.
What it is and how it works
The name comes from the .com domain many of them used. At the time, heavily funded start-ups with unproven business models multiplied, focusing on rapid growth over profitability. Many disappeared when the dot-com bubble burst between 2000 and 2001, which is why the term sometimes carries a pejorative tone.
It is less common today: companies that operate only online are more often called pure players or digital natives, and click-and-mortar when they combine physical and online channels.
Also known as
dotcom, dot-com company
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