Citations:dot-coma

Noun: "(slang) the collapse of a dot-com or of the dot-com bubble"

 * 1999, Helen Jung, "Two Strikes For Net Ipos -- Tech Investors Can't Count On A Home Run", The Seattle Times, 31 July 1999:
 * 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.
 * 2000, Newsweek, Volume 136, page 81:
 * He sees the high-tech slowdown of the last year— the "dot-coma"— as just a breather "before we move back into a roaring new economy."
 * 2001, Business Week, Issues 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, "Out Of The Dot-Coma", Newsweek, 12 May 2002:
 * And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world.
 * 2004, Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software, Springer-Verlag (2004), ISBN 9781430207535, page 224:
 * There's nothing wrong with the post-new economy, if you're smart. But all the endless news about the “dot coma” says more about the lack of creativity of business press editors than anything else. Sorry, fuckedcompany.com, it was funny for a month or so, now it's just pathetic.

Noun: "(slang) a temporary outage experienced by a website"

 * 2000, Steven Levy, "Here Comes Playstation 2", Newsweek, 5 March 2000:
 * Within seconds, approximately 100,000 eager buyers converged on the site, plunging it into a dot-coma.