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Dot-Com

A business, especially a publicly-traded company, that conducts most or all of its business over the Internet. Dot-coms may conduct business in one or more of the following areas: Content, Commerce, and Connection. Content companies provide information, either for free or for a charge, and earn most of their operating income from advertising. Commerce companies sell new and/or used goods directly over the Internet. Connection companies provide Internet services directly to customers.

Dot-coms were hugely popular investments in the 1990s, with IPOs of hundreds of dollars per share, even if a company had never produced a profit and, in some cases, had never earned any revenue. This came from the theory that Internet companies needed to expand their customer bases as much as possible and thus corner the largest possible market share, even if this meant massive losses. While this worked for some dot-coms, notably Google, which did not produce a profit for its first several years of operation, the theory was unsustainable because, in a given industry, only one or two companies could corner large market shares, meaning most dot-coms were doomed to failure. This dot-com bubble burst in 2000.

dot-com

1. Of or relating to a company or the stock of a company engaged primarily in a business associated with the Internet. Amazon.com is the most obvious example of a dot-com company.

2. See Internet stock.

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European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
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Internet stock
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Price-Earnings Growth Ratio
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New dot-com companies were starting up everywhere, creating a demand for expensive Sun-based server systems to handle high levels of web traffic.

The History of Sun Microsystems by Tom Kranz / Computers and Internet community

TMP reports that the growth in external recruitment in the IT and telecoms sector in Europe has been fuelled by the rise and subsequent fall of many dot-com companies during the late 1990s.

European IT recruitment in full flow by Information Age (London, UK)

She is aware that the effect of the dot-com companies was critical to the healthy growth of the hybrids.

Increase Sales Through Multimedia Marketing. (Required Reading) by Holtzman, Henry / Alaska Business Monthly

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