Hello mz3501,
Thank you for asking a question that was of personal interest to me.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a recognized authority in
the English language, the first use of the word dot-com was used in
Newsday (a metropolitan newspaper), in its April 5, 1994 edition, in
the following context:
“If I were telling someone that address I'd say: ‘quit at newsday dot
com.’”
In this usage, the meaning was :
“An Internet address for a commercial site expressed in terms of the
formulaic suffix .com; a web site with such an address.”
If you’re interested in the use of the word dot-com that means a
company that does its business online, then you will find it first
mentioned in the November 1996 issue of the magazine Internet World,
which used it in the following context:
“A broad discussion of what's around the corner for dot.coms. What
effect will ‘dumb-delivery’ devices have as they make the Web more
accessible to the home market?”
The earliest use of the word COM, which means:
“(The designation for) a top-level domain name, used (preceded by a
point) as part of an Internet address, originally to indicate a
commercial web site, though later more broadly applied.”
was first used in 1984:
“The initial top level domain names are: COM = Commercial, any
commercial related domains meeting the second level requirements”
in J. POSTEL & J. REYNOLDS’ Request for Comments.
Search strategy:
Looked at various web dictionary entries on the OED at
http://www.oed.com
Confirmed the date of first use at
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?dot-com
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