Vanity domains may be compared with vanity car registration plates, which similarly identify their owner as an individual and not just someone relying on another organisation's services.
An example is Buck in the action/thriller film Kill Bill Volume 1, whose Pussy Wagon pickup truck has a "PSY WGN" plate.
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This can be used as a comical element, as "Outatime" in the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine featured in the science fiction film Back to the Future.
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