Just did 2+ hours of fascinated clicking as if I found a new part of Wikipedia, mainly because I assumed the "one way trip" to the ocean was a euphemism for what happened to the Titan submersible.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with re-using an expired domain.
I'd even go as far as recommending it for hosting similar content to the previous owner's; in the same concept as cafes closing and re-opening under new ownership.
It's the site-squatters, domain-traders and link-farmers that shouldn't be allowed to take over existing URIs.
So yeah, I guess we're actually not that different after all.