Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Google and eBay are examples of dot-com companies. Telecom companies that offer voice or video services over the Internet also fit into the dot-com company umbrella.

The years 2000 to 2002, when the bottom fell out of the dot-com industry and hundreds of Internet-based companies went bankrupt. According to Kara Swisher in "Burn Book," a 2024 tell-all about the ...