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語源

From dot +‎ com, from the DNS suffix .com.

発音

(noun)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɒtˈkɒm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌdɑtˈkɑm/
• 韻: -ɒm, -ɑm

(verb)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdɒtkɒm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdɑtˌkɑm/
• 韻: (米国発音) -ɑm

名詞

dotcom (plural dotcoms)

1. (dated) A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
   • 2003, Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell, New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality:

     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.

   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     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 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 March 2023:

     In an echo of the valuation methods used before the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2001, its shares are priced not in relation to its profits or even its revenue but to its extraordinary growth.

派生語

動詞

dotcom (third-person singular simple present dotcoms, present participle dotcomming, simple past and past participle dotcommed)

1. (transitive, dated) To convert to using or being based on e-commerce.
   • 2001, Rick G. Sherland, E-business & Internet infrastructure software: United States, page 2:

     The fear of being "dotcommed” was a powerful catalyst creating a reactionary environment.

   • 2001, Mass Media in India, →ISBN, page 185:

     When will your company get dotcommed?

   • 2010, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter, →ISBN:

     Then Yuppies dotcommed the Banks.

   • 2026 April 4, Richard Waters, “AI disruption: who will get hit?”, in FT Weekend (Big Read section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

     In the tech world, all the talk of disruption has revived memories of the 1990s, when start-ups riding the first wave of the internet were seen as an imminent threat to many established businesses and the fear of being “dotcommed” was pervasive.

アナグラム

• tomcod, dot com

不変化詞

dot com

1. Alternative form of .com, as in speech, or to bypass spam filters.
2. (Internet slang, dated, humorous) Used as an sentence-final intensifier to affirm one's judgement.
   • 2014, Lisi Harrison, License to Spill‎, →ISBN, page 152:

     Extra work, baby. Free food, a paycheck, and celebrity sightings. It's the bomb dot com.

   • 2024 April 21, @maliktheoracle, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 27 December 2025:

     At lunch wit a white girl n she keep saying “yum dot com” after every bite

アナグラム

• tomcod

派生語

• dot-com bubble
• dot-commer

動詞

dot-com (third-person singular simple present dot-coms, present participle dot-comming, simple past and past participle dot-commed)

1. (Internet) Alternative form of dotcom
   • 2001, Samantha Miller, E-Mail Etiquette, →ISBN:

     Check to see if your name—or any Web site name you pick—has been dot-commed yet at any of several Web sites that oversee domain-name registration, such as ...

   • 2006, David Kuo, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, →ISBN:

     In July 1999, while I was dot-comming in Virginia, Governor Bush went to Indianapolis, home of Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's “Front Porch Alliance.”

   • 2010, Jordan Belfort, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, →ISBN:

     When I landed in New York, I went straight to work—finding the refi boom accelerating at an exponential rate. In 2000, Americans had dot-commed themselves to death; in 2001, they were mortgaging themselves to death.

派生語

参考

• .com

アナグラム

• tomcod