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  • noun Plural form of dot-com.

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Examples

  • Google would often buy furniture from fire sales held at the sites of failed dot-coms.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    NASA Administrator Finalists? - NASA Watch 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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