question Are all expired domains which receive traffic unavailable for registration?

Lord Antares said:

The reason I ask, guys, is because I am able to make a bot which can scrape high view count youtube videos and return to me links which give a 404, meaning unregistered domains.

The idea is it might be possible to find some trafficked ones this way and monetize them either via redirection or a landing page.

Hence the question. Do you think all the ones worth the while have been caught by dropcatchers?

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Bob Hawkes said:

...My broader question (perhaps simplistic) is why does it matter much? Surely except for some domains with recently tarnished past, or when you want to use the domain for a very similar purpose, beyond that backlinks and traffic are much less important than the inherent quality of the name.

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So if you are not selling a business, but just a domain name, why are traffic/links important?

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