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Interesting point about TLD name clashes. However, 

1. The .home TLD was not my choice; that whole ".fios-router.home" name is the default setting in our FiOS Quantum Gateway router. Presumably Verizon implemented the default from RFC 7788. Yes, I could change it.
   
2. RFC 8375 was written to correct RFC 7788 because of this clash with the new TLD name .home. It makes interesting use of the primordial .arpa TLD. I don't know if Verizon has had any plan to implement this RFC.
   
3. It is my understanding that early this year ICANN voted to defer indefinitely the delegation of the TLDs .home, .mail, and .corp precisely because of the name-clash problem. "The introduction of any new domain name into the DNS at any level creates the potential for name collision [however] the New gTLD Program has brought renewed attention to this issue of queries for undelegated TLDs at the root level of the DNS because certain applied-for new TLD strings could be identical to name labels used in private networks." This decision involves full refund by ICANN of millions of dollars in application fees. Yikes.
   

For some time I've had thoughts about creating an inner network behind a bastion host with its own DNS, firewall, yada yada yada---using the Quantum Gateway only to get to the Internet. My significant other's cablebox/DVR and a few other appliances can stay in the original network so I don't screw up her service. 

Too many plans, not enough time!

Regards,
Kent