Should dns.domain.name default value be home.arpa.?

Feature Requests
1

Will Pi-hole start to use home.arpa. as the default value for dns.domain.name, instead of lan?

2

Could you explain the practical difference ?

3 
$ xargs -n1 whois <<< 'lan. intranet. internal. private. corp. home. home.arpa.'
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
[..]
domain:       HOME.ARPA
[..]
contact:      technical
name:         Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
organisation: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
[..]
remarks:      This domain is administered as part of the .ARPA zone
remarks:      management, described at https://iana.org/domains/arpa

$ dig +short @8.8.8.8 home.arpa ns
blackhole-1.iana.org.
blackhole-2.iana.org.

$ dig +short @8.8.8.8 lan. ns
$

Its harder to hijack home.arpa.
Queries for the other domains dont get blackholed.

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