Shareholders are unlikely to see the £15 per share high reached at the height of the dotcom boom.
»a dotcom entrepreneur/millionaire
»the dotcom era/world
Starting a successful dot.com has more to do with business skills than technical expertise.
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• Many dotcoms tried to build a global brand before their business model even worked.
• The Nasdaq hit its high in March, 2000, and within a few years most of the dot-com sector was wiped out.
A company that embraces the internet as the key component in its business. Dotcoms are so named because of the URL customers visit to do business with the company, e.g. www.Amazon.com. The “com” stands for “commercial.” By contrast, websites run by companies whose primary motivations are not commercial, such as nonprofit companies, often have domain names ending in “.org,” which is short for “organization.”
The dotcoms took the world by storm in the late 1990s, rising faster than any industry in recent memory. Despite the fact that most internet companies were losing money at alarming rates, they were given huge valuations on the stock market - but it didn't last for long. The Nasdaq surged to a historical high in March of 2000, and within a few years most of the dotcom sector was wiped out.
• Amazon, e.g.
• Bubble of the early '00s
• Business that may have gone boom and then bust in the '90s
• Company on the Web
• E-biz
• E-business
• Expedia, e.g.
• Google, e.g.
• High-tech business
• Internet business
• Internet catch phrase
• Internet company
• Internet entrepreneur
• Many a 1990s start-up
• Many a Silicon Valley start-up
• Napster was one
• Nasdaq company, often
• Online biz
• Online business
• Part of a bubble bath?
• Techie's company
• Web firm
• Web outfit
• Web-based business