<
networking> (.
com, "commercial") The
top-level domain
originally for American companies but, since the explosion of
the
World-Wide Web, used by most companies and for {vanity
domains} of all types, whether in the US or not, often in
addition to
country code domains like amazon.co.uk.
The term "dot
com" is now widely used to refer to any Internet
business as in "My dot
com turned into a dot bomb".
(2007-02-18)