@YaniUnchained but there are people that think it is needed 
at least the bumping of auctions for another 3 months on each bid should be re-considered IMO. but if this is being touched we might be able to make a few more improvements.
I thought you were also supporting this back then. I just checked the initial discussion on github:
it is not a year. but a last minute bid could currently cause an extension of the auction for ~ 3 months. this sounds really crazy to me and makes the auction mechanism for short names quite unnattractive.