I'm sorry but that's incorrect.
I'm not a fan of us.com subdomains myself, but there have been some reported sales and there are quite a number of small businesses and even bigger ones who use us.com or uk.com subdomains.
Here are the reported sales I could find on Namebio and DNSalePrice :
beer.us.com $300
office.us.com $125
restaurants.us.com $145
hdtv.us.com $135
gig.us.com $444
men.us.com $200
myspacelayouts.us.com $110
auction.us.com $300
glittergraphics.us.com $2,000
familywatchdog.us.com $2,000
flirt.us.com $1,720
medicine $1,698
And there are around 1 million results in Google for us.com and for uk.com subdomains.
This doesn't make them wonderful, but it's incorrect to say that nobody's interested in them.