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- noun Plural form of
dot-com .
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Examples
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Google would often buy furniture from fire sales held at the sites of failed dot-coms.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Though many Amish steer clear of modern technology, some of the money Beachy raised ended up in dot-coms, which crashed in 2000.
In an Amish village, the SEC alleges a Madoff-like fraud David S. Hilzenrath 2011
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The new rules affect what the industry calls top-level domain names, the familiar dot-coms and dot-nets that end every Web address.
Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011
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The new rules affect what the industry calls top-level domain names, the familiar dot-coms and dot-nets that end every Web address.
Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011
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The shiny new imaging machine is to medical property portfolios what the Aeron chair was to dot-coms.
Matthew Yglesias » Controlling Costs Through Making the Price Lower 2010
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If anything there has been an overproliferation of commercial ventures competing for a limited business base and, as such, we've seen Iridium and Globalstar (anyone remember Microsoft's 'Teledesic' proposal for 400 or so satellites in LEO?) go bust along with the dot-coms a decade ago.
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For a media that was sent to the woodshed for helping to inflate and failing to predict two disastrous bubbles in a single decade -- dot-coms and housing -- perhaps it stands to reason that its motto these days seems to be "we won't get fooled again."
Yvette Kantrow: Tiny Bubbles Yvette Kantrow 2011
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For a media that was sent to the woodshed for helping to inflate and failing to predict two disastrous bubbles in a single decade -- dot-coms and housing -- perhaps it stands to reason that its motto these days seems to be "we won't get fooled again."
Yvette Kantrow: Tiny Bubbles Yvette Kantrow 2011
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The new rules affect what the industry calls top-level domain names, the familiar dot-coms and dot-nets that end every Web address.
Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011
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If a mutual fund thought dot-coms were overvalued it could have sold its holdings, or not bought any, without violating any laws.
Are Small Investors Irrational?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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