dot-coma

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English

Etymology

Blend of dot-com +‎ coma.

Noun

dot-coma (plural dot-comas)

  1. (slang) The collapse of a dot-com or of the dot-com bubble.
    • 1999 July 31, Helen Jung, “Two Strikes For Net Ipos -- Tech Investors Can't Count On A Home Run”, in The Seattle Times:
      The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading.
    • 2001, Business Week, numbers 3744-3750, page 360:
      Clearly, eSpeed's connection to Cantor is a unique insurance policy, assuring it won't end up in a dot-coma.
    • 2002 May 12, “Out Of The Dot-Coma”, in Newsweek:
      And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dot-coma.
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