dot-com
Definitions
General English
Accounting
- noun
(written as dot.com)
a business that markets its products through the Internet, rather than by using traditional marketing channels
Electronics
(written as dot com)
On the Internet, a top-level domain name suffix. The com is an abbreviation of commercial, although the entity employing this suffix need not be commercial. Also called .com.
- noun a company that conducts its business on the Internet or that provides Internet services
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