IEDR Releases Financials and makes interesting promises

The Irish domain registry (IEDR) has released details of its finances
The press release and report contains some amusing very amusing comments from the IEDR management, but this one really takes the biscuit:

Its offering of a “managed” domain, where, unlike other domain names, entitlement to the .ie name is established and cybersquatting is eliminated, is unique in the current market.

This is echoed again by Curtin:

We are justifiably proud that there is virtually no cybersquatting in the .ie namespace because registrants must authenticate their
claim to the domain before registration is completed.

So there is no trademark infringement or cybersquatting in the IE namespace?
Watch out for the low flying pigs!
I wish they would make up their minds about their stance on trademarks. Either they police them or they don’t. The current situation is farcical, with globally recognised brand names being registered to 3rd parties, while genuine agents are expected to jump through hoops..
Curtin’s introduction to the report is a little too optimistic:

Through initiatives such as price reductions, the introduction of process automation and other customer service improvements, we have continued to achieve our objectives of making the IEDR better, faster, cheaper and more secure than ever before.

Who is actually passing on the price reductions? From what I’ve seen the vast majority of Irish hosting companies and domain vendors have not passed on any saving to their clients. They may try to justify this by giving greater discounts to their resellers, but surely the end user should benefit?
Further on in the report he suggests that the pricing and automation contribute to the growth:

The growth can be attributed to economic buoyancy, the rollout of broadband, price reductions and IEDR operational improvements which make registration easier, faster and cheaper

Some would have us believe their press releases, but the actual pricing tells a different story.
Headline grabbing may be good for raising your profile in the short term, but hypocrisy doesn’t pay in the longer term………….
Some of the other comments are quite worrying:

It is no coincidence therefore that in the .ie namespace, there are fewer intellectual property disputes over domains, less cybercrime on .ie websites, less incidence of credit card fraud on .ie websites, and very little evidence of illegal, explicit or immoral content appearing on .ie websites

The intellectual property disputes are bound to be fewer as the TLD is so small. More .co.uk domains were registered in April this year than the entire size of IE namespace.
The part that concerns me is the reference to “immoral” content. What exactly constitutes immoral? Why shouldn’t there be explicit content on .ie websites? Are the IEDR trying to do an ICANN on the IE namespace??