I made research and found an interesting market trand of 3 letter .us which convinced me to register 1300 3 letter .us domain names.
Retail Market Analisys
It's not a secret that many 3 letter .com domain names are used by companies that don't sell their domains at any price. However a demand for a popular 3 letter acronym is pretty high. When an American business realizes they can't get .com vertion of their domain name, what would they do? They will go with .us version.
The existance of a retail market
shortest .us domains is evidenced by visible sales.
Afternic:
(click on link to verify)
PAI.US $600
IAC.US $500
MMG.US $495
SFP.US $495
DTI.US $400
AKM.US $349
ITD.US $350
BMX.US $300
NTI.US $245
SOE.US $222
DOU.US $210
BHI.US $205
SFD.US $200
PIB.US $200
KJV.US $200
USF.US $200
BEC.US $200
KCC.US $200
Number of all
recorded 3 letter domain sales on afternic:
.COM - 43
.US - 19
.NET - 9
.ORG - 3
.INFO - 1
.BIZ - 0
According to afternic, sales of 3 letter .US, not only beat sale of .BIZ and .INFO combined but sales of .NET and .ORG! .US stands on the second place after .COM.
This are only afternic sales, there are many private sales that took place as well but the trend is obvious.
Reseller sales
I haven't done any deep research on resellers level, however I got a significant data on reseller's activities:
From Pool.com went:
stp.us - at least $60
kib.us - at least $60
amw.us - $30 - this forum
It's also interesting that 3 letter .us are being chased and are being reregistered the same second they becone available.
Trere are also a number of serious players in the .US domain space like myself, Zauzas, Stocdoc and others who hold thousands of 3 letter .us names and there is not a chance they will drop.
You get the idea.