Most indie hackers I know spend an embarrassing amount of time on the naming part. We argue with ourselves over the perfect .com, eventually settle for some janky combo of words with random consonants ripped out, and ship a domain we secretly don't love.
There's a quieter option a lot of builders haven't seriously considered: .Vegas. It's a geographic TLD, but it does NOT require you to be in Las Vegas or build anything Vegas-related. What it does give you is a TLD that sounds bigger than it costs, reads as memorable, and is still wide open in 2026.
I went down a small rabbit hole this week looking at side-project ideas that would have an almost unfair head start on .Vegas. Here are five.
1. A weekend trip planner
Domain: weekend.vegas or trip.vegas
