# Default Production Domain

**Published:** October 31, 2019 | **Authors:** Andy Schneider, Shu Ding, Christopher Skillicorn, Luc Leray, Leo Lamprecht | **Category:** Company News

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When creating a new project, it's important that the road to sharing a working production URL of your newly deployed code is as short as possible, with the least amount of friction.

With today's announcement, we're ensuring exactly that.

## New Default Domain

By creating a new project, you will now automatically see a `vercel.app` domain with the name of your project and a random animal appear on your project's Domains tab.

For example, if your project is called **"my-site"**, your default production domain could look like this:

![The default production domain is automatically assigned to your deployments.](//images.ctfassets.net/e5382hct74si/4ac0Oy2g3KJkVWM6b7LLYT/85c7519d6389f5a972bcd21dc0eaf81d/domain-preview.png)

## Deploying to Production

In order to deploy to production, [push to your default branch](https://zeit.co/docs/v2/git-integration) with our Git integration or run `vercel --prod`  with our [command-line interface](https://zeit.co/download).

> **Note:** The first deployment in every newly created project is automatically promoted to production.

## Editing Your Domain

Even if you don't like your default production domain, that's not a problem. Changing your production domain is now as easy as clicking **"Edit"** and entering a new one:

![You can edit the default production domain or add a custom domain.](//images.ctfassets.net/e5382hct74si/4S6k9kwzf50uk0zJbjF0q6/f9f657e297ee693735d39b187862fd95/domain-edit.png)

## API Changes

The endpoints for [creating a project](https://zeit.co/docs/api#endpoints/projects/create-a-project) and [ensuring a project exists](https://zeit.co/docs/api#endpoints/projects/ensure-a-project-exists) have been adjusted accordingly and will automatically provide you with a production domain.

To opt-in to this feature, you will need to use the latest version of the project endpoints.

## Conclusion

With default production domains, you can [deploy to production](#deploying-to-production) without having to set up a [custom domain](https://zeit.co/docs/v2/custom-domains/) first.

This drastically decreases the time it takes for you to share a working version of your project.

[Let us know what you think](mailto:support@vercel.com) about this change!

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