dot-coma

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.