Dot-com company

A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com, dotcom or .com), is a company that conducts most of its businesses on the Internet, usually through a website on the World Wide Web that uses the popular top-level domain ".com".[1] As of 2021, .com is by far the most used TLD, with almost half of all registrations.[2]

The suffix .com in a URL usually (but not always) refers to a commercial or for-profit entity, as opposed to a non-commercial entity or non-profit organization, which usually use .org. The name for the domain came from the word commercial, as that is the main intended use.[3] Since the .com companies are web-based, often their products or services are delivered via web-based mechanisms, even when physical products are involved. On the other hand, some .com companies do not offer any physical products.[4]

  1. ^ "dot com company". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
  2. ^ "Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) - Verisign". www.verisign.com. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
  3. ^ ".com TLD Information". www.interserver.net. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
  4. ^ Investopedia (2018). "Dotcom". Investopedia. Retrieved 10 October 2018.