dot-com investment & finance definition

One of the terms to come into common usage the quickest, it refers to any number of Internet companies that began in the later half of the 1990s during the technology and Internet boom. It takes its name from the companies that included a “.com” at the end of their name. As the technology bubble burst and dot-com companies were discredited, many firms that were still in business changed their names to get rid of the “.com.”