So you taking LLL.com out of picture, like they belong to the other planet or smth?
Why you think price of LLL.com started going up?
1. Because price of LLLL.com went up.
2. Strong demand from Chinese buyers.
If price of LLLL.com goes down, LLL.com will follow, who will want to buy LLL.com at 30K, if they can get LLLL.com for $100. There's 26-36 correlation.
You are just another guy talking about them mythical end-users for LLL.com.
Go ahead, take sales data from LLL.com sold in 2015 and do yourself a favor, check the sites. You'll be surprised. I already did this and know that only one domain is developed by end-user from Middle East.
All the others were bought by domains investors.
3 letters that make money from parking are easy targets of reverse hijacking lawsuits, especially after price went to 25-30K. Low hanging fruit, sweet and tasty, like buying option, instead of stock, you know
4Letter .net may be not all registered right now, but in March LLLL.com price was $25, now it's $200.
As this price will keep going up they will get registered. And the best of them are registered already.
75000 got registered in last 3 month, only 105000 left.
It will take time, but you watch.