I mean it absolutely could be. For a lot of these weird TLDs, it's a single company that makes its own rules as to who owns a domain. Not saying the person you're replying to is right or wrong, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
It was taken off me by the same people that I registered it with. They may have broken rules to do so. I just know they said I shouldn't have been given it.
I once registered web.site. I had it for a week or two before I tried pointing it at a server at which time someone noticed and took it off me.