Are the statistics for for number of visitors and income that are displayed on godaddy expiring name auction accurate?
Follow the Buyer Beware caution. If you are buying the $5 domains, it probably isn't worth spending too much time. But if you want to start bidding on an expensive name - then check out stats, such as backlinks, pagerank etc. I use MyDNStats for a quick check. Unless you are buying the site or planning to recreate pages for existing backlinks, then value of the name can drop pretty quickly and take a lot of work to get it back again