Godady Expired Domains #MONTHLY visitors
 

has anyone tried buying a domain with lots of monthly visitors? How accurate is that number?

Depends on which metric they are using to show the visitors.

"traffic". Well has anyone tried actually tracked the unique hits vs Advertised traffic?

"Traffic" means nothing. It should be proved by some real metrics.

As example - Ahrefs rankings keywords and traffic.
Semrush ranking keywords and traffic.

Also check out the backlink profile of the domain.

:winkwink:

there's a good chance that "traffic" is not human but just various bots/crawlers etc visiting the site. Wouldn't trust those numbers.

:2 cents::thumbsup

I would do a more thorough analysis of the domain in several services. Trite, if a domain is banned in search networks, then it may not have such a great future