Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms: .com
.com
- a suffix indicating that a web or e-mail address belongs to a commercial entity (in any country, but mostly the United States). Along with.edu,.gov,.int,.net,.org,and.mil, this is one of the original set of Internet top-level domains. Since 2000, .com,.net,and .org have been assigned almost indiscriminately to organizations of all types.See also top-level domain (TLD) ICANN (Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers).
- the filename extension used for small, nonrelocatable machine language programs in DoSTo execute the program, type the name of the file without the final " .com"; for example, to execute AAA.COM, type aaa.Contrast exe file.
