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  • noun A failed dot-com company or venture

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Examples

  • LivingSocial may wake up with a colossal dot-bomb hangover later on, but if it's going to go on a dot-com marketing binge today it would be rude of me not to take part.

    LivingSocial evokes dot-com boom with $20-for-$10 Amazon deal Rob Pegoraro 2011

  • Some of them have helped me through some real crises moments like having to lay-off half my staff during the dot-bomb days, or dealing with a mentally deranged employee, or having a new competitor copy us.

    Thank You to All My Mentors 2008

  • A few years ago, Angelantoni left San Francisco's dot-com (or dot-bomb, as he says) rat race to start a business helping people prepare for life after cheap oil.

    Tara Lohan: Can You Survive Life After Cheap Oil? It May Be Time to Find Out 2009

  • RADAR magazine has an article about Marc Collins-Rector (mugshot below from the Florida sex-offender registry) and Brock Pierce, founders of the dot-bomb online TV network DEN.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • How are we in a recession AGAIN after just coming out of the dot-bomb?

    Hillary: We Need A "Commander-In-Chief" For The Economy 2009

  • Post-bubble Silicon Valley tries hard to avoid the harebrained excesses that led to dot-bomb disasters.

    Silicon Valley Reboots 2008

  • The dot-bomb shakeout, which started in the e-commerce sector, has now extended to the entire spectrum of Web businesses aimed at consumers.

    Finally, The Net Gets Real 2008

  • Richard Li was Asia's dot-com prince; now he's one of its dot-bomb downfalls.

    Periscope 2008

  • Of course, the American dot-bomb phenomenon has its counterpart in Japan, where venture-capital firms like Softbank and Rakuten have been hit hard.

    HOW JAPAN CAN JOIN THE GAME 2008

  • They meet in Starbucks and in Web-based dot-bomb alumni groups.

    Silicon Valley Reboots 2008

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  • As the current dot-com shakeout is illustrating, "pure-play," impersonal e-commerce sites are quickly moving from dot-com to dot-bomb.

    September 26, 2008