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plural dotcoms
A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet. quotations examples
Even mainstream, primetime narratives in the domestic sphere, for instance, now provide unremarkable reflections on the now naive and overly optimistic promises of cybertech, the high-techs, and dotcoms.
2003, Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell, New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
third-person singular simple present dotcoms, present participle dotcomming, simple past and past participle dotcommed
(transitive) To convert to using or being based on e-commerce. quotations examples
The fear of being "dotcommed” was a powerful catalyst creating a reactionary environment.
2001, Rick G. Sherland, E-business & Internet infrastructure software: United States, page 2
When will your company get dotcommed?
2001, Mass Media in India, page 185
Then Yuppies dotcommed the Banks.
2010, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter