The days of easy-picking-low-hanging fruit on good quality expiring, aftermarket and open-registry .us names seem to be over.
This time last year, I could name you the guys I was competing against in aftermarket auctions, desktop drops, etc of good .us.
Now, it seems like there are a shitton of people getting into the TLD.
Bleh.
Bastards.
Between dev performance and the end-user spread, I knew the disinterest in .us couldn't last forever.
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It's obviously a top name.
One thing about names like this; I would be very, very reticent to sell a category-killing one word domain name in the ccTLD of the wealthiest country on earth representing an industry where single units sell in the tens of millions of dollars- to a bunch of 'domainers' before having mined End User Mountain myself. Perhaps you already have, I don't know, but the probability of an "aw shit" domainer-to-domainer sale moment seems to be drastically higher with a name like Aircraft.us than it does with pretty much anything else, given the figures involved with that industry.
Of course, it's always possible that the relevant decision-makers in that industry just don't want that name... You talk to all the right people in the biz and no one cares; oh well, but I would definitely explore MUCH further before peddling this one off to other domainers.
